Vipul Jairath, MBChB, DPhil, MRCP, FRCPC

Dr. Jairath oversees global Medical R&D strategy and operations, including medical operations, medical imaging, precision medicine, medical writing, medical monitoring, biostatistics advisory collaborations, and IBD fellowship programs. He also provides medical leadership for clinical trial design, protocol development, and imaging endpoint strategy.

Dr. Jairath is Professor of Medicine at the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry at Western University and holds the John and Susan McDonald Endowed Chair in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). He completed his medical degree and BSc in Pharmacology at the University of Leeds, earned a DPhil in Clinical Medicine from the University of Oxford, and holds a postgraduate diploma in Clinical Trials from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

A practicing gastroenterologist specializing in inflammatory bowel disease, Dr. Jairath’s research focuses on clinical therapeutics for IBD, including the design of clinical trials, development and validation of clinical and patient-reported outcome measures, and predictive modeling of treatment response. He has led the development of several novel indices for IBD clinical trials, including the UC-100 and patient-reported outcome measures SIQ-UC and SIQ-CD, and played key roles in the REACT2 and VERDICT clinical trials addressing critical treatment strategies for Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.