Dr. Bressler received his MD from the University of British Columbia and completed his residency in internal medicine and gastroenterology at the University of Toronto. He received an MSc in epidemiology from the Harvard Public School of Health and completed an advanced fellowship in IBD at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School. In addition to his work at the IBD Centre of BC, Dr. Bressler is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology at the University of British Columbia’s Department of Medicine. He is the founder of The IBD Centre of BC, the Director of UBC’s Advanced IBD training program and a world-recognized expert in inflammatory bowel disease.

For more than 20 years, Dr. Bressler has dedicated himself to advancing research and care for British Columbians with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. With the creation of The IBD Centre of BC, Dr. Bressler and other specialists are carrying out his dream of providing IBD patients with timely, province-wide access to a multidisciplinary team of health-care professionals, advancing IBD research and providing world-class IBD education.