Meet our panel of medical specialists

Britt holds a senior medical staff appointment at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, where she is the Head of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Unit and is a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne. Britt studied Medicine at the University of Melbourne, graduating with honours in 2006 and has completed a Masters of Public Health at Monash University, for which she was awarded a Medal of Academic Excellence. After completing her gastroenterology training at St Vincent's and Alfred Hospital, she was awarded the Joseph B. Kirsner fellowship and spent over 2 years undertaking advanced training in IBD at the prestigious University of Chicago Medicine, one of the largest and most prominent IBD centres in the world. .. read more »

After obtaining his BSc, Dr. Jakob Begun completed his MPhil in Biochemistry at Cambridge University. He then obtained his MD and PhD in genetics at Harvard Medical School. He completed his clinical training at Harvard University and his advanced training in IBD at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) where his research focussed on the functional genetics of IBD, the role of the microbiome in IBD, and the role of autophagy in cellular handling of bacteria. He returned to Australia in 2014 to pursue his interest in clinical and translational IBD research and gut health. He is the IBD clinical lead at the Mater Hospital in Brisbane. He was appointed IBD Group leader and Senior Research Fellow at the Mater Research Institute – University of Queensland and is a Senior Lecturer at the UQ School of Medicine... read more »