Meet our panel of medical specialists

Dr Emily Wright is a gastroenterologist at St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne and an NHMRC investigator and Senior Research Fellow at The University of Melbourne. Emily completed a PhD in the scientific and microbial factors affecting the recurrence of postoperative Crohn’s Disease in 2016, and was awarded the Dean’s Award for Excellence in a PhD Thesis through the University of Melbourne. Emily is an active IBD clinician and researcher, and has published widely. She works in the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinics at St Vincent’s Hospital and Werribee Mercy Hospital in Melbourne. She has established an intestinal ultrasound service at St Vincent’s Hospital, which is used for the diagnosis and monitoring of IBD. She has an interest in emerging microbial and dietary treatments for IBD, therapeutic drug monitoring and noninvasive disease monitoring in IBD, and the management of IBD during pregnancy... read more »

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 »