Faculty

CANIBD Session 1 Guest Faculty - Friday, November 8, 2024

Meg SoperRetired RN
Motivational Humourist
Ancaster, ON

CANIBD Session 2 Guest Faculty - Saturday, November 9, 2024

Plenary Presenter:
Jordan FeldMD MPH
R. Phelan Chair in Translational Liver Disease Research
Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto
Research Director, Toronto Centre for Liver Disease
Senior Scientist, Sandra Rotman Centre for Global Health, TGRI
Toronto General Hospital
Toronto, ON

Plenary Presenter:
Vivian Huang, MD MSc FRCPC
Associate Professor & Clinician Investigator
Division of Gastroenterology
University of Toronto
Director, Preconception & Pregnancy in IBD Program
Mount Sinai Hospital
Toronto, ON

Plenary Presenter:
Genelle LunkenPhD RD
Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine
University of British Columbia
BC Children's Hospital Research Institute
Vancouver, BC

Plenary Presenter:
Rose Raizman, RN-EC PHCNP NSWOC WOCC (C) MSc MScN NP-ET
Ostomy Care
Pressure Ulcer Prevention
Adjunct Lecturer 
Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing
University of Toronto
Professional Practice
Scarborough Health Network Centenary Hospital
Toronto, ON

Plenary Presenter:
Meg SoperRetired RN
Motivational Humourist
Ancaster, ON
 

Moderator:
Brenda O’Connor, BScN RN CCRP
Research, Nurse/Clinical Coordinator
Mount Sinai Hospital
Toronto, ON

 
 
CANIBD Board
 

Alana CarterRN MN
IBD Nurse, Research Coordinator
GI Department, Oshawa Clinic
Oshawa, ON

CANIBD Chair & Moderator:
Usha Chauhan
, RN(EC) MN BScN ACNP(D) CGN(C)
Nurse Practitioner, Adult Digestive Disease
McMaster University Medical Centre
Associate Professor, School of Nursing
McMaster University
Hamilton, ON

Moderator:
Barbara K. Currie, MN RN-NP
Nurse Practitioner IBD
NS Collaborative IBD Program Division of Digestive Care & Endoscopy
QEII Health Sciences Centre
Halifax, NS

Moderator:
Colleen Johnston, RN MBA
Nurse Clinician, Lead for GI CAT
Certified Prosci Practitioner,
Alberta Health Services
Calgary, AB

Kate Lee, PhD MBA
Vice-President, Research & Patient Programs
Crohn’s and Colitis Canada
Toronto, ON

Moderator:
Marie-Louise Martin, BA BScN RN(EP) MN ACNP
Nurse Practitioner, Inflammatory Bowel Disease
University of Calgary
Calgary, AB

CANIBD Vice-Chair & Moderator:
Jennifer Stretton, RN(EC) ACNP MN BScN
Nurse Practitioner, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinic
St. Joseph’s Healthcare
Hamilton, ON

Moderator:
Melanie Watson, RN(EC) MN NP Nurse Practitioner
Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
Children’s Hospital, London Health Sciences Centre
Adjunct Clinical Professor
Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences
Adjunct Lecturer
Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto
Toronto, ON

 

  • Canada has among the highest incidence rates of Crohn's and colitis in the world.
  • 1 in 140 Canadians lives with Crohn’s or colitis.
  • Families new to Canada are developing these diseases for the first time.
  • Incidence of Crohn’s in Canadian kids under 10 has doubled since 1995.
  • People are most commonly diagnosed before age 30.