Full Name
Dr. Yasmin Nasser
Job Title
Gastroenterologist
Company / Organization
University of Aalgary
Speaker Bio
Dr. Yasmin Nasser is an Associate Professor in the Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases and a clinician-scientist in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the University of Calgary. She has been the recipient of several prestigious awards, including a Crohn’s Colitis Canada Rising Star Award and a CCC/Pfizer Canada Women in IBD outstanding researcher award. Dr. Nasser has recognized expertise in visceral pain, functional GI disorders and GI motility. She runs an IBD Chronic Pain Clinic at the University of Calgary, which is unique in Canada, where she treats IBD patients in endoscopic remission who continue to suffer from chronic pain. Dr. Nasser’s CIHR funded translational research program is focused on biological sex, sex hormones and their interactions with the microbiome in the development of visceral pain.
Dr. Yasmin Nasser