Meet our panel of medical specialists

Dr Emily Wright

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.

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