Dr. Lakatos is an associate professor and director of IBD Centre at McGill University, MUHC. Until January 2017, he was head of the gastroenterology/hepatology ward, endoscopy unit and outpatient clinic at the 1st Department of Medicine, Semmelweis University in Budapest, Hungary. He is one of the founders and leader of the Hungarian IBD Study Group, council member of the Hungarian Society for Gastroenterology and president elect of the Colon Section. He is a member of the educational committee in ECCO and IOIBD member. He is a regular reviewer in leading international journals in gastroenterology/hepatology, section editor in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, BMC Gastroenterology and associate editor in J Crohn’s Colitis and World Journal of Gastroenterology. During his career, he has published more than 250 original papers and reviews, including 25 book chapters. His primary research interest is the epidemiology, outcome and biomarkers in the prediction of disease progression and response to medical therapy in IBD.