7:15 am - 7:30 am

Industry Sponsored Short Snapper Session #1-B

Female with IBD Case Presentation: From Menarch to Menopause:  How do gastroenterologists meet the needs of their female patients with IBD?

Ms. Karen Frost, MN, NP

With over twenty years of clinical experience, Karen Frost is first a clinician who oversees a paediatric population with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) in an academic and acute care institution. She has also been instrumental in the inception of the Precision IBD and Monogenic Intestinal Diseases Program.

Karen is the educational resource lead for the SickKids IBD Centre and has published multiple educational materials for health care providers and patients. She founded/co-founded the Canadian Nurses in IBD Group and Nurses in IBD Care and Education. With the advent of advanced IBD therapies, Karen is forefront in the management of patients on biologic therapies alongside her physician group. She has served as the gateway in bringing these therapies to their patients, making the IBD Centre a pioneer in novel therapies. Having a huge interest in technological application of care in patients, she is the lead project manager of the very first SickKids Hospital app, myIBD+. Karen has consulted on multiple patient and professional related tech initiatives including web care portals, mobile application framework development, and point of care interactive terminals.

Dr. Vivian Huang, MSc, MD, FRCPC

Dr. Huang is an Assistant Professor and Clinician Investigator in the Division of Gastroenterology at Mount Sinai Hospital and the University of Toronto.  She is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Division of Gastroenterology at the University of Alberta. She completed medical school and internal medicine residency at Queen’s University, and Gastroenterology fellowship at the University of Toronto. Funded by Alberta Innovates Health Solutions clinician research fellowship, she obtained an Advanced IBD clinical research fellowship and Masters of Science (Medicine) at the University of Alberta where she developed the Northern Alberta Preconception and Pregnancy in IBD clinical research program and continues to direct clinical research. At Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, she is establishing the Preconception and Pregnancy in IBD clinical research program for Toronto and Ontario. Her primary clinical research interests include using multidisciplinary approaches and e-health strategies to incorporate P4 (predictive, preventive, participatory, personalized) medicine to optimize maternal, fetal, and neonatal outcomes in IBD, and conducting translational studies investigating the impact of maternal IBD and therapies on the fetus and neonate.