Our focus
Improve Patient outcomes
ANZIBDC member centres currently provide IBD care for ~20,000 patients which represents around 20% of the population with IBD within ANZ.
Our main focus is to improve quality of clinical care and patient outcomes, and ultimately find a cure for people living with IBD.
Better Quality Clinical care
ANZIBDC, in partnership with Crohn’s Colitis Cure charity, have developed a new comprehensive cloud-based custom IBD Clinical Management Software called Crohn’s Colitis Care (CCCare).
CCCare is designed with the aim to improve quality of IBD care around Australia New Zealand by supporting patient-centred care, quality monitoring/reporting, better quality and evidence-based clinical care, as well as assisting with collaborative research via a Clinical Quality Registry.
CCCare is now Live at 10 centres with over 4500 patients onboarded. This includes: Royal Adelaide Hospital (SA), Liverpool Hospital, St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney and Concord Hospital (NSW), Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital & Mater Hospital (QLD), St John of God Hospital Perth (WA) and SDHB Dunedin (New Zealand), and will be soon deployed across ANZ.
Scientific research
ANZIBDC has bio-specimens (DNA) stored on approximately 8000 IBD patients, which are linked to their disease behaviour and therapy over time. Each ANZIBDC site contributes patient DNA, phenotype data and biological samples (such as blood, stool and tissue samples). By pooling these resources, ANZIBDC can undertake more complex and powerful research.
ANZIBDC
ANZIBDC is a collaborative research program which aims to progress knowledge and clinical practice in the field of IBD through the combination of both clinical and scientific research, thus improving patient outcomes across the Australian and New Zealand populations. It was formed in 2008 and currently comprises of 17 Gastroenterology centres around Australia and New Zealand, including physicians, nurses and scientists based at these hospitals.
ANZIBDC has also established collaborations with European, North American and Asian IBD consortia who are undertaking similar work and made significant contributions to several international IBD studies.
OUR TEAM

A/Prof Graham Radford-Smith

Prof Jane Andrews

Prof Ian Lawrance

Prof Richard Gearry

A/Prof Susan Connor

Prof Michael Schultz

A/PROF Jakob Begun

Dr John Nik Ding

Dr Simon Ghaly

A/Prof Miles Sparrow

Dr Daniel van Langenberg

Dr Gillian Mahy

Dr Peter De Cruz

Dr Réme Mountifield

Dr Soleiman Kashkooli

Dr Lena Thin

A/Prof Sally Bell

Dr Yoon-Kyo An
