Dr. Neal Shahidi is a gastroenterologist and interventional endoscopist at St. Paul’s Hospital, specializing in the screening and management of precancerous and cancerous lesions of the esophagus, stomach, small bowel and colorectum. His work includes the application of organ-sparing, minimally invasive endoscopic resection techniques, including cold snare resection (CSR), endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR), endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) and endoscopic full-thickness resection (EFTR).

Dr. Shahidi completed his gastroenterology fellowship at the University of British Columbia in 2018. He went on to complete a two-year tissue resection and interventional endoscopy fellowship at Westmead Hospital in Sydney, Australia, in 2020, and received a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Sydney in 2023.

Dr. Shahidi is a Michael Smith Health Research BC Scholar and is supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. He has published over 90 peer-reviewed manuscripts and book chapters, as well as 110 conference abstracts. He actively serves on committees for the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology and the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.

Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of British Columbia
Staff Gastroenterologist and Interventional Endoscopist, St. Paul’s Hospital
Co-founder, St. Paul’s Hospital Advanced Endoscopic Resection Centre (SPARC)
Head, Division of Gastroenterology, University of British Columbia

Dr. Eric Lam completed his gastroenterology fellowship at the University of Alberta in 2002, followed by a transplant hepatology fellowship at the same institution in 2003. He pursued further sub-specialization in endoscopic ultrasound at the Université de Montréal in 2004. Dr. Lam returned to St. Paul’s Hospital later that year and has been a staff gastroenterologist since, with specific interests in advanced diagnostics and therapeutics in pancreaticobiliary disease, premalignant tumours of the gastrointestinal tract and endoscopic innovation in surgical endoscopy. He has also completed additional training in Japan to perform endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) for the treatment of early cancers and peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) for spastic esophageal disorders.

Dr. Lam currently serves as head of the Division of Gastroenterology at the University of British Columbia. He served as program director of the Adult Gastroenterology Training Program from 2016 to 2024.
 

Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of British Columbia
Staff Gastroenterologist and Interventional Endoscopist, St. Paul’s Hospital

Dr. Robert Enns graduated with a Doctor of Medicine from the University of British Columbia in 1988 and completed a rotating internship at Royal Columbian Hospital. He began his career as a primary care physician in the Fraser Valley before returning to UBC to complete training in internal medicine, followed by a gastroenterology fellowship at the University of Calgary. He later completed advanced therapeutic endoscopy training at Duke University Medical Center.

Dr. Enns has practiced gastroenterology in Vancouver for over 20 years. He is the previous Head of the Division of Gastroenterology for both St. Paul’s Hospital and the University of British Columbia. He is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of British Columbia and is the Vancouver Coastal Lead for the Colon Cancer Screening Program.

While Dr. Enns maintains a broad interest in all aspects of gastroenterology, his clinical and research focus includes quality of care, obscure gastrointestinal bleeding (with expertise in capsule endoscopy and deep enteroscopy), Barrett’s esophagus and endoscopic resection techniques. He has served as Associate Editor for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and as a board member of the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology.  

Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of British Columbia
Staff Gastroenterologist and Interventional Endoscopist, St. Paul’s Hospital
Medical Director, British Columbia Colon Screening Program, British Columbia Cancer Agency

Dr. Jennifer Telford graduated from the University of British Columbia in 1992 with a Bachelor of Science in Physiology. She went on to complete her Doctor of Medicine and Internal Medicine residency at UBC, followed by a gastroenterology fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Telford earned a Master of Public Health in Clinical Effectiveness from the Harvard School of Public Health and completed an Advanced Endoscopy Fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, with a focus on endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) and endoscopic ultrasound (EUS).

She is currently a Clinical Professor of Medicine at UBC, based at St. Paul’s Hospital, and serves as the Medical Director of the British Columbia Colon Screening Program. Her clinical and research interests include outcomes in endoscopy, colorectal cancer screening, polyposis and hereditary cancer syndromes.  

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of British Columbia
Staff Gastroenterologist and Interventional Endoscopist, St. Paul’s Hospital

Dr. Douglas Motomura completed a gastroenterology fellowship at Queen’s University in 2021 and an advanced endoscopy fellowship at the University of British Columbia in 2022, with a focus on endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) and endoscopic ultrasound (EUS). He was the first Canadian to complete a one-year tissue resection fellowship at Kobe University in Japan, specializing in early gastrointestinal cancer treatment and endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD).

Dr. Motomura’s research and clinical interests include innovations in image-enhanced endoscopy and optical diagnosis, as well as the endoscopic treatment of early gastrointestinal cancers. His work focuses on patients at increased risk of gastric cancer, such as those with atrophic gastritis or intestinal metaplasia.

He is currently completing a Master of Science in Evidence-Based Healthcare at Oxford University.

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of British Columbia
Staff Gastroenterologist, St. Paul’s Hospital
Medical Director, British Columbia Home Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition Program
Program Director, Adult Gastroenterology and Hepatology Training Program, University of British Columbia

Dr. George Ou completed his internal medicine and gastroenterology training at the University of British Columbia in 2015 and 2017, respectively. He pursued advanced training in clinical nutrition and small bowel diseases at the University of Chicago in 2018, followed by specialized training in intestinal failure at the Lennard-Jones Intestinal Rehabilitation Unit at St. Mark’s Hospital in the United Kingdom in 2019.

Dr. Ou’s specific interests include capsule endoscopy, deep enteroscopy—including double-balloon enteroscopy—and enteral and parenteral feeding.