Peter Gibson MD

Prof Peter Gibson is Professor and Director of Gastroenterology at The Alfred and Monash University, having previously been Professor of Medicine and Head of the Eastern Health Clinical School. He is a Past-President of the Gastroenterological Society of Australia and was the inaugural Chair of IBD-Australia.

Prof Gibson graduated with First Class Honours from Monash University and pursued training in Gastroenterology at The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne and at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, UK. He was awarded an M.D. from Monash University in 1985 on work performed in Oxford on mucosal immunology in inflammatory bowel disease. After 3 years at the Australian National University as a Research Fellow, he was appointed to the University of Melbourne Department of Medicine at The Royal Melbourne Hospital as Senior Lecturer, and later as Associate Professor and Deputy Director of Gastroenterology.

From a background of research in epithelial cell biology, he now runs a large program of translational research and has active clinical interests in inflammatory bowel disease, coeliac disease and irritable bowel syndrome. A major focus of his work is the use of diet to control gut symptoms and influence outcomes in chronic intestinal conditions. He was awarded the Distinguished Research Prize by the Gastroenterological Society of Australia in 2010.