Conjoint Senior Lecturer

Mr Craig Haifer

2010

Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery (Honours) – Monash University

2017

Fellow of the RACP - Gastroenterology and Hepatology

2022

Doctorate of Philosophy – The University of Sydney

Medicine & Health
School of Clinical Medicine

Dr Haifer is a Staff Specialist in the Gastroenterology Department and Inflammatory Bowel Disease service at St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney and a Conjoint Senior Lecturer at the School of Clinical Medicine, University of New South Wales. In addition to his clinical work, he has active research interests in the role of gut microbiome in the development of gastrointestinal and systemic diseases. Dr Haifer completed his PhD through Sydney University assessing the role of faecal microbiota transplantation to treat and further explore the pathogenesis of these diseases. As an early career researcher, he has received over $400,000 of research funding through organisations including the Gastroenterological Society of Australia and The St Vincent’s Clinic Foundation and has used these funds to complete successful projects with first author publications in high-ranking gastroenterology journals including Lancet: Gastroenterology and Hepatology and Gut.  

2022

Gastroenterological Society of Australia – Project Grant for FMT in immune checkpoint inhibitor associated colitis

 

2022

The St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney Ladies’ Committee Sr Mary Bernice Research Grant for FMT in immune checkpoint inhibitor associated colitis

 

2020

Gastroenterological Society of Australia- Ferring IBD Clinical Excellence Grant

 

2020

The St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney Ladies’ Committee Sr Mary Bernice Research Grant for “Oral Faecal Microbiota Transplantation for Ulcerative Colitis”

 

2019

Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation Research Entry Scholarship; Royal Australasian College of Physicians

 

2019

Gutsy Group Research Grant for “Lyophilised Orally Administered Faecal Microbiota Transplantation in the Management of Ulcerative Colitis (LOTUS) Study”

 

2018

Gastroenterological Society of Australia; Ewa & Ezriel Rabinowicz Crohn's Research Grant forThe Role of the Oral Microbiome in Inflammatory Bowel Disease”

 

2021

Best Abstract Award – Young European Crohn’s and Colitis Organisation

2020

Young Investigator Award - Gastroenterological Society of Australia