Peter Decruz MBBS, PhD, FRACP

Dr Peter De Cruz is a Gastroenterologist and Hepatologist and Head of the IBD service at the Austin Hospital and a Senior lecturer at the University of Melbourne. Peter’s doctoral research at St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne identified the optimal strategy for preventing Crohn’s disease recurrence after resectional surgery. The findings of the research were published in the Lancet in 2015 and have changed practice internationally. His postdoctoral fellowship in complex IBD and clinical nutrition was undertaken between Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge and St Mark’s Hospital, London. Peter’s ongoing clinical research interests include identifying predictors of response to IBD therapeutics, quality assurance and eHealth in IBD. Peter also maintains a translational research interest in molecular microbiology and immunology