Eric Benchimol holds the Northbridge Chair of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) at the SickKids IBD Centre. He is a pediatric gastroenterologist with a primary interest in treating children with IBD. Dr. Benchimol is also an epidemiologist and chairs the Canadian Gastro-Intestinal Epidemiology Consortium (CanGIEC), which conducts epidemiology, pharmaco-epidemiology, outcomes, and health services research using the health administrative data from multiple provinces. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology (JCAG), and has an interest in transparency and completeness of reporting of research using routinely collected health data.