The Impact of IBD to Canadians and the Health Care System

In this presentation you will learn about:
  • The impact that inflammatory bowel disease has on Canadian society
  • Rate of IBD diagnoses and complications
  • Gaps in access to IBD treatment and specialists
  • The burden and cost of Crohn's disease and colitis on the health care system 
  • How IBD impacts older adult and senior populations differently from yonger populations 

Speaker:

Dr. Sanjay Murthy is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and a Clinician-Investigator in the Division of Gastroenterology at the University of Ottawa.

He is a member of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD) Centre at the General Campus and Director of the Home Parenteral Nutrition Program for The Ottawa Hospital.

His clinical areas of focus include IBD and clinical nutrition. His research program focuses on the application of clinical epidemiologic methods to study health care questions pertaining to IBD and colorectal cancer (CRC) prevention, particularly with respect to the clinical and cost-effectiveness of current paradigms of care and ways to improve the efficiency and quality of delivery of health care services.

In 2018, Dr. Murthy received the Crohn's and Colitis Canada Rising Star Award.
 

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  • 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.

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