Dr. Murthy completed his MD at the University of Ottawa, Internal Medicine Training at the University of Manitoba and Gastroenterology Training at the University of Toronto. He completed advanced fellowships in IBD (Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto), diagnostic endoscopy (University of Mainz, Germany), clinical nutrition (Toronto General Hospital) and intestinal ultrasound (Brisbane, Melbourne) and an M.Sc. in Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Research (University of Toronto). Dr. Murthy’s clinical practice is in IBD and general gastroenterology. His research program focuses on population-based observational studies, pragmatic trials and clinical prediction models to the study inflammatory bowel diseases and gastrointestinal cancers. He is supported by a Faculty of Medicine Clinical Research Chair in IBD from the University of Ottawa.

I have/had an affiliation (financial or otherwise) with a for-profit or not-for-profit organization.
- Member of an advisory board or speakers’ bureau: Abbvie, Pfizer

I do not intend to make therapeutic recommendations for medications that have not received regulatory approval (ie, “off-label” use of medications).