Charlie’s core mission is to improve outcomes for people living with IBD. His team are working on predicting outcomes in IBD, using routinely collected NHS data and dedicated multi-modal prospective cohorts to build predictive models. The ultimate goal is a dynamic clinical decision support tool integrating longitudinal inflammatory biomarker profiles, patient reported outcomes, wearables and multi-omic data that predict disease related outcomes, cardiometabolic and neuropsychiatric co-morbidities and directs treatment choices. Charlie is a passionate educator lecturing widely to healthcare providers globally and directly to patients about the current and future management, causes and consequences of IBD. He is a global digital opinion leader, running the Atomic IBD newsletter, a social blog, a YouTube channel and the leading global twitter account on IBD. Prof Lees has published widely (140 papers on IBD on PubMed) with a current H-index of 60.

Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals, London, UK

Peter Irving is a consultant Gastroenterologist at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital in London and is Professor of IBD at King’s College London. Professor Irving studied medicine at Cambridge University and The London Hospital Medical College, UK. He trained in gastroenterology in London before undertaking an IBD fellowship in Melbourne, Australia. He has a large IBD practice and a number of active research interests in translational research, clinical IBD and clinical trials. He has published widely in IBD including several books and book chapters, and over 200 peer-reviewed articles. He formerly served as Chair of the Education Committee of European Crohn's and Colitis Organisation and e-Learning Ambassador for the European Crohn's and Colitis Organisation and now sits on the Education Committee of the United European Gastroenterology Federation.