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What to do after a patient has failed a biologic?

Robert Battat, M.D. is an expert in Inflammatory Bowel Disease specializing in Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis. He is an Attending Physician and Scientist at the Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM). He is the director of the Center for Clinical Excellence and Translational Research in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases at the 
Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal.

Dr. Battat obtained his medical degree and completed both his internal medicine residency training and clinical gastroenterology fellowship at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He subsequently completed a clinical and research fellowship in Inflammatory Bowel Disease at the University of California, San Diego and at Robarts Clinical Trials (Alimentiv).

Dr. Battat is a physician-scientist with a major interest in personalized medicine in Inflammatory Bowel Disease and has extensively published scientific articles on this topic. This includes the effect of measuring medication blood levels on patient outcomes (therapeutic drug monitoring), the effects of therapies on inflammation found on biopsies, and post-operative course of Crohns disease.

Dr. Battat is a reviewer for over twenty scientific journals, is on multiple editorial boards and has lectured on Inflammatory Bowel Disease at national and international conferences.

Dr. Battat has expertise in clinical trials and in providing care for patients with Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis, ranging from those who are early in their disease to those who have been on multiple therapies or have had multiple surgeries.