Associate Professor
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta

Chris is an academic gastroenterologist at the Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary. He completed advanced clinical fellowships in inflammatory bowel disease at the University of Calgary and Western University, as well as formalized research training in clinical trial methods as the 2018 Robarts International IBD Clinical Trials fellow. He received his MPH in Epidemiology & Biostatistics from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 2019. His research portfolio now focuses primarily on clinical trial design and analytic methods, and the epidemiology and treatment of gastrointestinal diseases. Dr. Ma has published over 230 peer-reviewed manuscripts. He is the lead for the international COREOS and CORE-IBD Consortia, and has been awarded over $6.5 million in peer-reviewed research funding, including from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology, the Canadian IBD Research Consortium, and the Helmsley Charitable Trust.