Assoc. Prof. Mayur Garg is Director of Gastroenterology and Research Lead for the Division of Medicine at Northern Health, and Clinical Associate Professor at University of Melbourne. He completed a PhD at Monash University in 2015 investigating novel therapeutic targets in IBD, and was awarded fellowships at St Mark’s Hospital in London from 2014 to 2015 including the GESA Olympus Endoscopy Fellowship and European Crohn’s and Colitis Organisation Fellowship. He has been full-time staff specialist at Eastern Health then acting Head of Inflammatory Bowel Disease at Royal Melbourne Hospital prior to his most recent position. His clinical and research interests include inflammatory bowel disease, interventional colonoscopy, functional gastrointestinal disorders, iron deficiency and eosinophilic oesophagitis. He is widely published, enjoys teaching and the opportunity to speak at local and international conferences, and chaired a working group for the development of patient information resources for the Gastroenterological Society of Australia.