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Contact Details

Email
andrew.day@otago.ac.nz
Position
Professor
Department
Department of Paediatrics (Christchurch)
Qualifications
MB ChB, MD, FRACP, AGAF
Research summary
Gastrointestinal disorders in children

Research

Andrew Day trained in paediatrics in Christchurch and undertook further subspeciality training in Toronto, Canada. After completing clinical and research training in Canada, Dr Day took up a clinical academic position at University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He returned to the department in 2009 and was appointed to Head of Department in 2010.

Professor Day is a paediatric gastroenterologist. His research interests include Inflammatory Bowel disease, Crohn’s disease and Coeliac disease, with projects focusing upon host-pathogen interactions in the gut (and how these relate to chronic gut diseases), intestinal inflammatory biomarkers, and nutritional aspects of gut diseases.

Publications

Forbes, A. J., Day, A. S., Frampton, C. M. A., & Gearry, R. B. (2025). Compounding prevalence of inflammatory bowel disease in a 2024 population-based study from Canterbury, New Zealand. JGH Open, 9(6), e70192. doi: 10.1002/jgh3.70192 Journal - Research Article

Borichevsky, G. M., Swaminathan, A., Smith, B. R., Edwards, T. S., Ashby, L. V., Frampton, C. M. A., Day, A. S., Gearry, R. B., & Kettle, A. J. (2025). Myeloperoxidase enzyme activity in feces reflects endoscopic severity in inflammatory bowel disease. Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1093/ibd/izaf109 Journal - Research Article

Liu, G. X. H., & Day, A. S. (2025). Alpha fail: Ustekinumab to the rescue after TNFα failure in patients with moderate to severe Crohn's Disease [Invited]. Digestive Diseases & Sciences. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1007/s10620-025-09090-z Journal - Research Other

Ritchie, K., Vernon-Roberts, A., & Day, A. S. (2025). Role of noncontrast enhanced abdominal ultrasound in the diagnostic assessment of pediatric inflammatory bowel disease. Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology & Nutrition. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1002/jpn3.70044 Journal - Research Article

Huang, H., Li, P., Vernon-Roberts, A., Day, A. S., Liu, B., Wu, Z., … Wang, H. (2025). The Inflammatory Bowel Disease Knowledge Inventory Device 2 (IBD-KID2) is an effective tool for measuring disease-specific knowledge in Chinese patients. PLoS ONE, 20(4), e0321036. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0321036 Journal - Research Article

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