Charles Bernstein MD

Dr. Charles Bernstein, a graduate from the University of Manitoba Faculty of Medicine, and the UCLA Division of Gastroenterology Fellowship Training Program is Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Bingham Chair in Gastroenterology Research;  Head - Section of Gastroenterology, and Director, Inflammatory Bowl Disease Clinical and Research Centre at the University of Manitoba.  His main research interests are primarily related to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD); in terms of utilizing epidemiological trends to pursue disease etiology; defining disease comorbidities; health services research; and exploring predictors of clinical outcomes.  

He has published over 340 peer reviewed articles, 26 book chapters, edited 7 Yearbooks of IBD and is a coeditor of the leading clinical pathology textbook in gastrointestinal disease (“Gastrointestinal Pathology and Its Clinical Implications” Lewin, Riddell, Weinstein, edition 2, 2014). In 2008, he was elected into the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, and in 2012 he was elected into the Royal Society of Canada -Life Sciences Division of the Academy of Science. In 2014 he was named a Distinguished Professor at the University of Manitoba, one of only 20 at this university.