Sanjay Murthy

Dr. Sanjay Murthy is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Ottawa, Gastroenterologist at the Ottawa Hospital IBD Centre and Scientist at The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. He completed his medical degree at the University of Ottawa, Internal Medicine Residency at the University of Manitoba, and Gastroenterology Residency at the University of Toronto. He completed advanced clinical and research fellowships in inflammatory bowel diseases (Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto), clinical nutrition (Toronto General Hospital) and diagnostic endoscopy (University of Mainz, Germany) and an M.Sc. degree in Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Research (University of Toronto). Dr. Murthy’s research program uses clinical and health administrative data to conduct epidemiological studies, pragmatic trials and clinical prediction models, which he applies to the study of inflammatory bowel diseases and gastrointestinal cancers. He has attained more than $3 million in peer-reviewed PI grant funding and has authored more than 110 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals, 5 clinical practice guidelines, and 4 book chapters. He holds a Tier II Faculty of Medicine Research Chair in IBD from the University of Ottawa. He is currently leading multiple national studies evaluating cancer epidemiology and prevention in IBD, including a multi-centre randomized controlled trial comparing different strategies for colorectal cancer prevention. He was recognized as a Rising Star in IBD in 2018 by Crohn’s and Colitis Canada.

Academic/Research Training:

HDRN Canada Pragmatic Trials Training Program, Future Trials Leaders, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at Western University

Clinical Fellowship in Parenteral Nutrition, University of Toronto 

Master’s in Science, Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Research, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation and ICES, University of Toronto 

Clinical and Research Fellowship in Advanced Endoscopy, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany

Clinical and Research Fellowship in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto

Royal College Clinician-Investigator Program, University of Toronto

Royal College Residency in Gastroenterology, University of Toronto

Royal College Residency in General Internal Medicine, University of Manitoba

Doctorate in Medicine, University of Ottawa

Bachelor’s in Science (Honours Biochemistry), Faculty of Sciences, University of Ottawa