Dr. Nikhil Pai

Associate Professor, Pediatrics

Dr. Nikhil Pai is an Associate Professor in the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology at McMaster Children’s Hospital. He completed medical school at McMaster University, his pediatric residency at the Hospital for Sick Children (University of Toronto), and his pediatric gastroenterology fellowship at Boston Children's Hospital (Harvard Medical School). He is the Medical Lead of the Complex Pediatric Nutrition Service at McMaster Children's Hospital, and runs the Pediatric Intestinal Failure program. 

He is the principal investigator for the McMaster Fecal Microbiota Transplant Research Program, which focuses on the application of fecal microbiota transplantation as treatment for pediatric inflammatory bowel disease. The team has led two multicenter randomized-controlled trials: the PediFeTCh Trial (Pediatric Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in Ulcerative Colitis), and PediCRaFT Trial (Pediatric Crohn's Disease Fecal Microbiota Transplant). His research expertise is in clinical, and basic science studies of host-microbial interactions with a focus on dietary influences on the gut microbiome. He is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology & Nutrition (JPGN), receives funding support from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), and speaks widely about the role of the intestinal microbiome in gastrointestinal health and disease.

 
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