Michael’s Hospital and associate professor of medicine at the University of Toronto, with a full time practice in general gastroenterology and hepatology. in addition, he is the director of the postgraduate internal medicine training program at St. Michael’s Hospital, and the former director of the University of Toronto gastroenterology training program. After completing his residency in Toronto, first in internal medicine and then in gastroenterology, Dr. Kandel did a three year postgraduate fellowship in Boston. He is one of the co-directors of the annual international therapeutic endoscopy course and again this academic year was an invited speaker at many of the University of Toronto’s faculty of medicine symposia including Primary Care Today, General Surgery Update, Mini-Medical School, and Saturday at the University. Peer review publications have focused on colorectal cancer screening, lactose intolerance and therapeutic endoscopy.