Dr. Peña-Sánchez is a faculty member in the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology. He is a physician with a European Master of Public Health and a Ph.D. from the University of Saskatchewan. His collaborative and interdisciplinary research program aims to study and promote innovative health care approaches that address the needs of populations and overcome the challenges of health care systems. His research program has four pillars: 1) access to health care for patients living with chronic medical conditions, 2) integrated models of care, 3) wellbeing and motivation of health care professionals, and 4) scholarship on the behavioural and social aspects of medicine. Dr. Peña-Sánchez is one of the members of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Research Collaborative Network. In partnership with Indigenous patient and family advocates, he has been working on raising awareness about IBD among Indigenous peoples and advocating for better access to IBD care and their well-being (see the IBD among Indigenous Peoples Research Team). As an investigator of the Canadian Gastrointestinal Epidemiology Consortium (CanGIEC), Dr. Peña-Sánchez is the Saskatchewan lead of collaborative IBD national studies using administrative health data. Dr. Peña-Sánchez is currently the Director of the Community-Based Learning Experiences (CLE, former CWCLE) Module and Chair of the Medicine and Society Courses in the Undergraduate Medical Education program at the University of Saskatchewan. In addition, he is the Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity Co-Champion of the Training Researchers in the Next Generation in GI and Liver (TRIANGLE) national program.