Dr. Yasmin Nasser is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine and a clinician-scientist in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology. She is a member of the Gastrointestinal Research Group and of the Snyder Institute for Chronic Disease. She has been the recipient of several prestigious awards, including a Crohn's Colitis Canada Rising Star Award, a CCC/Pfizer Canada Women in IBD outstanding researcher award and a Young Investigator Award from the American Neurogastroenterology & Motility Society. Dr. Nasser has recognized expertise in visceral pain, functional GI disorders and GI motility. Dr. Nasser's translational research program is focused on the role of the microbiome in the development of chronic pain in IBD. The overall goal is to develop innovative approaches to the treatment of chronic pain, thus improving quality of life.