SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2025 
9:30 am – 9:50 am

Endoscopic Scoring Systems in IBD

Learning Objectives:

• Be familiar with commonly used endoscopic scores in IBD
• Be aware of emerging endoscopic scoring systems in IBD
• Understand the utility of using endoscopic scoring in IBD

Speaker

Dr. Neeraj Narula, MD, MPH, FRCPC

Associate Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine,  McMaster University
Program Director, IBD Fellowship

Dr. Neeraj Narula is an Associate Professor of Medicine at McMaster University and Staff Gastroenterologist at Hamilton Health Sciences, with a clinical and research focus in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD).  He is the director of the IBD clinic and IBD fellowship at McMaster University.

He completed the Present-Levison Advanced Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Fellowship at Mount Sinai Hospital (New York, NY) in 2015 and a Masters of Public Health at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health (Boston, MA) in 2018.

He has over 180 peer-reviewed publications and 4 book chapters. He has been awarded over $4 million in research funding and grants. His research interests are predominantly in clinical epidemiology, nutrition, and pharmaceutical trials in IBD.  His past leadership roles in national organizations include Past-President of the Canadian IBD Research Consortium and VP-Treasurer for the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology. His recent awards include the CAG Early Career Investigator Award (2025), the McMaster Mid-Career Research Award (2025) and Crohn’s and Colitis Rising Star Award (2019).