Dr Hawrelak is Head of Research at ProbioticAdvisor.com. His passion for gastrointestinal health, the GIT microbiota, and probiotics was ignited during the final year of his undergraduate training in 1999. Subsequently, Dr Hawrelak did his Honours (First Class) and PhD degrees in the areas of the gastrointestinal microbiota, irritable bowel syndrome, and the clinical applications of pre- and probiotics. He has written extensively in the medical literature on these topics.
Dr Hawrelak has taught health professionals at both the undergraduate and postgraduate level for the past 20 years. He currently coordinates and teaches the Evidence-based Complementary Medicine Program in the College of Health & Medicine at the University of Tasmania (Hobart, Australia) and is the Gastrointestinal Imbalances lecturer in the Master of Science in Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine program at the University of Western States (Portland, Oregon). He is also a Visiting Research Fellow at the Australian Research Centre for Complementary and Integrative Medicine (ARCCIM) at the University of Technology Sydney (Sydney, Australia).
He regularly presents to other health professionals at National and International conferences and has been featured on a number of online Gut Health Summits. His lectures and publications have changed the way thousands of practitioners in Australia, Canada, and the US manage gastrointestinal conditions and modify the microbiome – specifically their use of prebiotics and probiotics.
Dr Hawrelak is a clinician with over 20 years’ experience working in busy natural medicine apothecaries and clinics. The main focus of his practice is modification of the gastrointestinal microbiota and the treatment of gastrointestinal conditions, both acute and chronic – such as irritable bowel syndrome, ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s disease, gluten-related disorders, peptic ulcer disease, intestinal parasites, fructose intolerance, autism spectrum disorders, and SIBO.
