Sunday - 8:45 am – 9:30 am 

IBD Case Presentations (Interactive)

Objectives:

• To use patient case studies based on real-life scenarios to aid clinical decision-making
• To consider a systematic approach to management of complex inflammatory bowel disease
• To evaluate the role of newer therapies (small molecules and anti IL-23) in our current strategies

Dr Smita Halder is an Associate Professor and Gastroenterologist at McMaster University. 
Smita obtained her medical degrees from Cambridge and Edinburgh Universities. After completing GIM training and GI residency in the UK, she pursued a 4 year PhD in Epidemiology, incorporating a year at the Mayo Clinic. 
In 2008 she moved to Toronto for a fellowship at Mount Sinai Hospital; in 2010 was appointed to the Division of Gastroenterology at McMaster, where she combines clinical, research and teaching roles.

Smita is a senior administrative leader at Hamilton Health Sciences and focusses on wellness, the physician experience, and leadership development at HHS. She is qualified as a Master Certified Physician Development Coach, her goal is to establish a coaching faculty across HHS and McMaster.
 

Dr. Natasha Bollegala is a staff gastroenterologist at Women’s College Hospital, and assistant professor in the department of medicine, University of Toronto (UofT). She is a clinician in quality and innovation and completed an Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) fellowship at Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, an MSc in clinical epidemiology and healthcare research at UofT in 2016, the Eliot Phillipson Clinician Scientist Training Program and the Clinician Investigator Program at the University of Toronto.

Dr. Bollegala conducts research with a particular focus on pediatric to adult transition of care and is co-principal investigator for the national transition arm of the Promoting Access to Care in IBD (PACE) quality improvement program of Crohn’s and Colitis Canada (CCC). She co-chairs the Canadian IBD Transition Network (CITE). She has published and presented on the topic of gender in gastroenterology. She is co-chair of the Innovations sub-committee for the Quality Affairs Committee of the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology (CAG). She serves as Treasurer for the Ontario Association of Gastroenterology (OAG).