After completing his PhD in physiology at Queen’s University, Dr. Reed completed medical school at the University of Toronto. He then completed his clinical training that included internal medicine at the University of Alberta and gastroenterology at McMaster University. He then pursued a research fellowship at Queen Mary, University of London.

His clinical interest is in gastrointestinal motility disorders. His research interest is how the interaction of luminal factors (e.g. dietary components) with stress or the microbiota modulates pain signaling and motility in disorders such as irritable bowel syndrome.