Charles Noah Bernstein MD, FRCPC

Dr. Charles Bernstein, a graduate of the University of Manitoba, Faculty of Medicine, and the UCLA division of gastroenterology fellowship training program is a distinguished professor of medicine, Bingham Chair in Gastroenterology Research; and director, of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Clinical and Research Centre at the University of Manitoba.

His main research interests are primarily related to IBD; in terms of optimizing management approaches; exploring predictors of clinical outcomes; and disease etiology. More recently he has been actively involved in exploring the biological and clinical intersection between different chronic immune-mediated inflammatory diseases. He has published over 600 peer-reviewed articles, and 29 book chapters, and is a co-editor of one of the seminal gastrointestinal clinical-pathology textbooks. His H-Index is 87 and has had over 33000 citations.

In 2008 Dr. Bernstein was elected into the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. In 2009, he was named the inaugural Bingham Chair in Gastroenterology at the University of Manitoba. In 2012, he was awarded the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology Research Excellence Award.  Further, in 2012 he was elected into the Royal Society of Canada -Life Sciences Division of the Academy of Science. In 2014 he was a distinguished professor at the University of Manitoba. In 2016 he was named as the recipient of the Dr. John M. Bowman Memorial Winnipeg Rh Institute Foundation Award, recognizing outstanding research accomplishments by a senior University of Manitoba faculty.