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Professor Ian Lawrance is a Consultant Gastroenterologist and a Professor in the School of Medicine and Pharmacology, Fiona Stanley Hospital Unit, The University of Western Australia. He was the Head of the department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Fremantle Hospital (2004–2007) and the Director of Endoscopic services at Kaleeya Hospital (2004–2007). In 2000 he developed the Centre for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases at Fremantle hospital and was its director since its formal opening in 2008. In 2015, he created a Centre for IBD at Saint John of God Hospital, Subicao, and is currently its head. He was a founding committee member of a physician-initiated interest group IBD Australia in 2002 and was its secretary (2005–2008)... read more »