Eric Benchimol is a pediatric gastroenterologist at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) IBD Centre in Toronto, Canada and specializes in the care of children with IBD. He is a Professor of Paediatrics and Clinical Epidemiology at University of Toronto. He is also Associate Program Director of the fellowship program in the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition at SickKids. Dr. Benchimol is also an epidemiologist, and chairs the Canadian Gastro-Intestinal Epidemiology Consortium (CanGIEC), which conducts epidemiology, pharmaco-epidemiology, outcomes, and health services research using the health administrative data from multiple provinces. He also has an interest in improving the research methodology and transparency of research using routinely collected health data. In that capacity, he co-Chairs the RECORD (REporting of studies Conducted using Observational Routinely collected data) Steering Committee which has produced multiple reporting guidelines.