Doctors' Program

The 21st Annual Conference Preliminary Program is available in the following format:

     

View online Flipbook

Download/View PDF

Click here to register

Friday, October 27, 2017

6:00 pm - 10:00 pm
(Adam Room Foyer)

Registration Open

6:00 pm - 10:30 pm
(Adam Room)

President’s Welcome Dinner

   

Saturday, October 28, 2017

7:00 am - 12:00 pm
(French Corridor)

Registration Open

7:00 am - 9:30 am
(Adam Room)

Breakfast

8:15 am - 8:30 am
(Ballroom)

 

Welcome & Opening Remarks
Speakers: Drs. Iain Murray & Imran Rasul

 

Details
Iain Murray, MD CM, FRCP(C)
President, Ontario Association of
Gastroenterology
Section Chair, OMA Section
of Gastroenterology

 

Dr. Iain Murray's family immigrated from far overseas in 1972. He attended school and CEGEP on the island of Montreal. His Bachelor of Science was obtained at the University of Toronto and Master's degree at the Anatomy Department of McGill University. He graduated from McGill Medical School in 1990. Dr. Murray did his post-graduate training in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology at the University of Western Ontario. He first set up practice at Markham-Stouffville hospital in 1995. In 2003 he became co-found of the current Intestinal Health Institute where he continues his gastroenterology practice. Dr. Murray is the current President of the Ontario Association of Gastroenterology. He is also the Chair of the Section on Gastroenterology at the Ontario Medical Association. Dr. Murray is married with three children.


Imran Rasul, MD, FRCP(C)
Chair of the Endoscopy Unit
Credit Valley Hospital
Treasurer, OAG

 

Dr. Imran Rasul completed his undergraduate training at the University of Toronto in 1992. He went on to complete his Medical Degree, Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology training at the University of Toronto. Further training in Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopy was completed at University of Toronto. He has been practicing in Mississauga at the Credit Valley Hospital for the past seven years. Dr. Rasul has an interest in Advanced Endoscopy and is Chair of the Endoscopy Unit at Credit Valley Hospital.

8:30 am - 8:50 am
(Ballroom)

Biologics and Immunomodators in IBD - Short and Long-Term Risks
Speaker: Dr. Richmond Sy

 

Details
Richard Sy, MD, FRCP(C)
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
Division of Gastroenterology
University of Ottawa

 

Dr. Richmond Sy is an Assistant Professor of the Division of Gastroenterology at the University of Ottawa, Department of Medicine. He received his MD from the University of British Columbia and completed his residency in gastroenterology at the University of Western Ontario where he has also completed a fellowship in inflammatory bowel disease. Dr. Sy has also completed courses in Clinical Epidemiology Master's program at the University of Western Ontario.

Dr. Sy is the Chair of GI Research at the Ottawa Hospital. His main research interests are clinical trials in inflammatory bowel disease. He has published in peer-reviewed journals and has lectured in numerous conferences.

Learning Objectives
To discuss the risk of opportunistic infections with drug therapy for IBD to discuss the risk of malignancy with drug therapy for IBD to discuss the risk involved in delay or non-treatment of IBD How to discuss risk with patients and put it all in perspective

8:50 - 9:10 a.m.
(Ballroom)

Risks in Long-Term Use of PPIs
Speaker: Dr. Grigorios I. Leontiadis

 

Details
Grigorios I. Leontiadis, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, McMaster University
Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology

 

Grigorios Leontiadis is Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology at McMaster University, Canada. Prior to moving to Canada in 2008, he was trained and worked in Greece and the UK. He is Joint Coordinating Editor of the Upper GI and Pancreatic Diseases Cochrane Group and Associate Editor for the American Journal of Gastroenterology and the Journal of Canadian Association of Gastroenterology. He currently serves as Lead for Practice Affairs at the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology, responsible for ongoing clinical training, clinical practice-related issues, knowledge dissemination and clinical practice guidelines.  His research interests include management of upper GI bleeding and H. pylori infection, translational evolutionary medicine, and methodology of systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines, especially with regards to the appraisal of the quality of evidence.

9:10 am - 9:30 am
(Ballroom)

DAA Therapy for Viral Hepatitis - Safety and Post Therapy Considerations
Speaker: Dr. David Wong

 

Details
David K. Wong, MD, FRCP(C) 
Hepatologist
Francis Family Liver Clinic
Toronto General Hospital

 

Dr. David Wong is the Education Director for Hepatology Education at the University of Toronto. Dr. Wong was trained at the University of Toronto. After completing his Gastroenterology training at McMaster University, Dr. Wong worked as post-doctoral research fellow at Harvard University 1994-1999, under the supervision of Dr. Bruce Walker, studying the cellular immune responses to hepatitis C infection. Dr. Wong's other interests include liver disease in HIV, the development of electronic clinical notes. He is the recipient of many teaching awards including the Lou Cole teaching award for Gastroenterology, the Wightman-Berris Academy award for teaching excellence, and the University Health Network Award for excellence in clinical teaching.

9:30 am - 9:50 am
(Ballroom)

Managing Endoscopic and Post Procedure Complications in ERCP
Speaker: Dr. Lawrence Hookey

 

Details
Lawrence Hookey, MD, FRCP(C) 

Chair, Division of Gastroenterology, Queen’s University
Quality Lead for Endoscopy in Southeastern Ontario
Medical Director for Endoscopy, Kingston Health Sciences Centre

 

I completed my medical school training at Memorial University of Newfoundland, and my Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology training at Queen's University. From there I went to Belgium and France for a two year clinical research fellowship in advanced therapeutic endoscopy. I returned to Queen's in 2005 and was the Program Director for the GI training program for 7 years. In addition to my clinical trials investigating preparation for colonoscopy, I have an interest in colonoscopy education and quality in endoscopy. I have held external grants from the American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology, and Physician Services Incorporated.

Presentation Overview
ERCP remains one of the highest risk procedures we perform. We shall review these risks, and strategies to mitigate them and deal with the complications when they inevitably occur, including bleeding, perforation, infection, and pancreatitis.

9:50 am - 10:10 am
(Ballroom)

Panel Discussion - Part I 
Moderator: Dr. Daniel Green

 

Details
Daniel Green, MD, FRCP(C)
Staff Gastroenterologist, Lakeridge Health
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Queen’s University
Director, OAG Board of Directors

 

Dr. Daniel Green is a staff gastroenterologist at Lakeridge Health and holds an academic appointment of Assistant Professor of Medicine at Queen’s University.  He completed his gastroenterolgy training at the University of Toronto and a fellowship in advanced therapeutic endoscopy at St. Michael’s Hospital.  In addition to his expertise in general gastroenterology, hepatology and endoscopy he has an interest in clinical research and is the Principal Investigator for several Phase III studies in Inflammatory Bowel Disease. 

He is the Medical Advisor for the Durham East chapter of the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of Canada and is on the Board of Directors for the Ontario Association of Gastroenterology.

He has won several competitive funding awards and has multiple publications in peer reviewed journals.  

 

10:10 am - 10:40 am
(French Corridor)

Nutrition Break

 

10:40 am - 11:20 am
(Ballroom)

Quantity Improvements in GI Practice
Speakers: Drs. Natasha Bollegala & Adam Weizman

 

Details
Natasha Bollegala, Hon. BSc., MD, MSc, FRCP(C)
Gastroenterology, Women's College Hospital
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto

 

Natasha Bollegala completed an Honours Bachelor of Science at the University of Toronto with a specialist in Human Behaviour Biology and minor in Anthropology. She completed medical school at the University of Toronto (UofT) and went on to complete her internal medicine residency training at McMaster University. In 2012 she was awarded the Hamilton Health Sciences, Medical Staff Association, Outstanding Resident Award as well as the Chief Medical Resident Award. She returned to UofT as the inaugural resident of the gastroenterology residency training program – research stream. In 2014 she began a clinical and research Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) fellowship at Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto and was the recipient of the Ogden Goldstein Fellowship Award. She began an MSc in clinical epidemiology and healthcare research at UofT in 2014. She is a member of the Eliot Phillipson Clinician Scientist Training Program and the Clinician Investigator Program. In 2015, Natasha joined the Division of Gastroenterology at Women's College Hospital (WCH).

Dr. Bollegala has an interest in the area of quality improvement. She is a member of the WCH Quality Operations Committee, the Division of Gastroenterology Quality Improvement Committee and is active in the administration of the gastroenterology quality improvement residency curriculum. She is actively engaged in a number of research initiatives including studying the effects of an IBD transition nurse, a project funded by the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of Canada. Her work utilizing health administrative data to explore health resource utilization in this area is funded through the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology.

Presentation Overview
This presentation by Natasha Bollegala, Adam Weizman and colleagues will provide practical advice for practices that wish to develop a quality initiative in gastroenterology. The focus of these talks will be Launching a Quality Improvement Initiative, describing the infrastructure, personnel, and structure needed to approach an identified problem within a practice (variability in adenoma detection rates). The discussion will also include the plan-do-study-act (PDSA) cycle of improvement within a small practice. The PDSA cycle is a fundamental component of successful quality improvement initiatives, allowing a group to systematically analyze what works and what doesn't. A case based approach to quality improvement in GI will be used.


Adam V Weizman, MD, MSc, FRCP(C)
Division of Gastroenterology
Mount Sinai Hospital
Assistant Professor of Medicine
University of Toronto

 

Dr. Weizman is a gastroenterologist at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Ontario and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He received his medical degree from the University of Manitoba and subsequently did a Residency in Internal Medicine and Fellowship in Gastroenterology at the University of Toronto. He completed the Advanced Fellowship in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California and a Master's degree (MSc) in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety from the Institute of Health Policy, Evaluation, and Management at the University of Toronto. His research interests include healthcare quality and health outcomes, with a focus on inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Dr. Weizman is the Head of Quality and Patient Safety for the division of gastroenterology at Mount Sinai Hospital and the University Health Network.

11:20 am - 11:40 am
(Ballroom)

How Best To Pick the Right Ambulatory Endoscopy Clinic 
Speaker: Drs. Michael Gould & Jeffrey Axler

 

Details
Michael Gould, MD, FRCP(C)
Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
President and Medical Director, Vaughan Endoscopy Clinic
Past President, Ontario Association of Gastroenterology

 

Dr. Michael Gould is the President and Medical Director of the Vaughan Endoscopy Clinic. He is Vice President and a partner in the Toronto Digestive Disease Associates (TDDA) clinical research group, which has participated in many GI clinical research trials. He is the interim Endoscopy Director at William Osler Health System.

Dr. Gould is a former Chief of Medicine of the William Osler Health System. He is a Past President and a founding member of the Ontario Association of Gastroenterology, and currently sits on the its Board of Directors. He is a board member of the Israel Cancer Research Fund . He was the CCO Endoscopy Lead from 2011- 2014, and helped design the Endoscopy QBP.

He has been a member of numerous colon screening guideline and quality committees at both the provincial and national levels.


Jeffrey Axler, MD, FRCP(C)
Medical Director, Medcan Clinic
Past President, OAG

 

Dr. Jeff Axler has been in clinical practice as a GI physician in Ontario for over 33 years. He has led the OAG as president, and during his tenure, was asked to participate in the initial development of the CPSO guidelines for Out of Hospital Endoscopy Premises. He continues to participate as a site inspector for these centers, as well as a peer assessor for the CPSO. He works at The Medcan Clinic as the Medical Director for their Out of Hospital endoscopy premises. He is also a Board member of the OAG, and is involved with a number of interesting areas, including clinical research, teaching, and government relations. He will provide some insights about what he has learned about various Out of Hospital endoscopy sites in Ontario during his role as CPSO inspector.

11:40 am - 12:00 pm
(Ballroom)

Panel Discussion - Part II
Moderator: Dr. Sandy Nelles

 

Details
Sandy Nelles, MD, FRCP(C)
Director of Endoscopy
Trillium Health Partners
Director, Ontario Association of Gastroenterology

 

Dr. Sandy Nelles is a gastroenterologist with a special interest in Therapeutic Endoscopy.  She is the Director of Endoscopy at Trillium Health Partners, Mississauga Site.  She completed her medical school and gastroenterology training at the University of Toronto followed by an ERCP Fellowship at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, under the supervision of Dr. Peter Cotton.

12:00 pm - 12:05 pm
(Ballroom)

Closing Remarks
Speaker: Dr. Imran Rasul

 

Details
Imran Rasul, MD, FRCP(C)
Chair of the Endoscopy Unit
Credit Valley Hospital
Treasurer, OAG

 

Dr. Imran Rasul completed his undergraduate training at the University of Toronto in 1992. He went on to complete his Medical Degree, Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology training at the University of Toronto. Further training in Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopy was completed at University of Toronto. He has been practicing in Mississauga at the Credit Valley Hospital for the past seven years. Dr. Rasul has an interest in Advanced Endoscopy and is Chair of the Endoscopy Unit at Credit Valley Hospital.

 

SOCIAL PROGRAMS

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
(Adam Room)

Lunch

2:30 pm - 4:00 pm

Group Tour of the Canadian War Museum

6:00 pm - 10:00 pm
(Laurier Room)

Children's Program: Dinner, Popcorn and a Movie

6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
(French Corridor)

Cocktail Reception

7:30 pm - 12:30 am
(Ballroom)

Gala and Awards Presentation

   

Sunday, October 29, 2017

7:00 am - 11:00 am
(Ballroom)

Registration Open

7:00 am - 9:30 am
(Adam Room)

Breakfast

8:15 am - 10:15 am
(Ballroom)

Moderator: Dr. Iain Murray

 

Details
Iain Murray, MD CM, FRCP(C)
President, Ontario Association of
Gastroenterology
Section Chair, OMA Section
of Gastroenterology

 

Dr. Iain Murray's family immigrated from far overseas in 1972. He attended school and CEGEP on the island of Montreal. His Bachelor of Science was obtained at the University of Toronto and Master's degree at the Anatomy Department of McGill University. He graduated from McGill Medical School in 1990. Dr. Murray did his post-graduate training in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology at the University of Western Ontario. He first set up practice at Markham-Stouffville hospital in 1995. In 2003 he became co-found of the current Intestinal Health Institute where he continues his gastroenterology practice. Dr. Murray is the current President of the Ontario Association of Gastroenterology. He is also the Chair of the Section on Gastroenterology at the Ontario Medical Association. Dr. Murray is married with three children.

8:30 am - 9:10 am
(Ballroom)

History of Medicine in Canada
Speaker: Dr. Susan Lamb

 

Details
Susan Lamb, Ph.D.
Jason A. Hannah Chair in History of Medicine | Chaire Jason A. Hannah de l'histoire de la médecine
Department of Innovation in Medical Education | Département d'innovation en éducation médicale
Faculty of Medicine | Faculté de médecine
University of Ottawa | Université d'Ottawa

 

Professor Susan Lamb is the Jason A. Hannah Chair in History of Medicine at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Medicine. She is the author of Pathologist of the Mind: Adolf Meyer and the Origins of American Psychiatry (2014) and scholarly articles in peer-reviewed journals, including this summer's CMAJ piece on the Canadian influence at the founding of Johns Hopkins. Her current book project examines the historical development of university medicine and medical education in North America, and her teaching and research supervision of medical students span the history of medicine, across time and its diverse subject matter. A Canadian, she obtained her Ph.D. from the Institute of the History of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 2010.

Presentation Overview
A series of case studies drawn from the history of medicine, with special emphasis on Canadian contributions and connections, and on developments related to gastroenterology.

9:10 am - 9:50 am
(Ballroom)

Mitigating Risks in Practice
Speaker: Dr. Janet Nuth

 

Details
Janet E. Nuth, MD, CCFP (EM)
Physician Advisor, Safe Medical Care, CMPA
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
University of Ottawa

 

Prior to joining the CMPA as a physician advisor in 2008, Dr. Janet Nuth worked in the department of emergency medicine at the Ottawa Hospital for over 20 years. Dr. Nuth is also an associate professor at the University of Ottawa and was the co-director of the University of Ottawa's emergency medicine clerkship for third year students and the director of faculty development for the department of emergency medicine.

Dr. Nuth has won over 10 university and provincial teaching awards, including the Ontario Leadership in Faculty Teaching Award, the Capital Educator's Award and the University of Ottawa Award of Excellence in Education.

Presentation Overview
In this session, the medical-legal risks in gastroenterology will be discussed. The presentation will include data and case examples to illustrate the common themes seen in CMPA files. Audience members will be able to identify ways to decrease their medical-legal risk and improve patient safety in their practice.

Learning Objectives

  • Identify three areas of risk seen in CMPA cases involving gastroenterologists
  • Identify two strategies to decrease your medical-legal risk and improve patient safety in your practice

9:50 am – 10:15 am
(Ballroom)

Update on FIT Testing in Ontario
Speaker: Dr. Catherine Dube

 

Details
Catherine Dubé, MD, MSc, FRCP(C)
Clinical Lead, ColonCancerCheck
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, University of Ottawa The Ottawa Hospital Civic Campus

 

Dr. Dubé is a gastroenterologist who obtained her Medical Degree from the University of Montréal in 1989, where she also completed a Master’s degree in pharmacology (1990). She completed her fellowships in Internal Medicine (1993) and Gastroenterology (1995) as well as a Master’s degree in Clinical Epidemiology (1999) at the University of Ottawa.

She is currently a staff physician at The Ottawa Hospital and an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Ottawa and is also the Clinical Lead for ColonCancerCheck, Ontario’s colorectal cancer screening program. As part of her role at CCO, she is leading the FIT implementation and has recently participated in CCO’s updated CRC screening guidelines, surveillance guidelines, guidance for facilities performing FIT colonoscopy and gastroscopy guidelines.

Presentation Overview
The purpose of this presentation is to provide an update on the implementation of the fecal immunochemical test (FIT), including the planned FIT screening pathway, and facility-level guidance for performing FIT-positive colonoscopies. The use of FIT in Ontario's population-based colorectal cancer screening program, ColonCancerCheck (CCC), is expected to result in several consequences for colonoscopy services in the province, including a higher volume of follow-up colonoscopies for those with a positive FIT and greater procedure complexity as more cancers and polyps will be identified. As such, this presentation aims to share changes to the CCC program and available resources to support the transition to FIT. Lastly, this presentation will also summarize recommendations for colonoscopy surveillance.

 

10:15 am – 11:00 am
(French Corridor)

Working Nutrition Break

 

10:15 am - 10:45 am
(Ballroom)

OMA Section on Gastroenterology AGM
Speaker: Dr. Iain Murray

 

Details
Iain Murray, MD CM, FRCP(C)
President, Ontario Association of
Gastroenterology
Section Chair, OMA Section
of Gastroenterology

 

Dr. Iain Murray's family immigrated from far overseas in 1972. He attended school and CEGEP on the island of Montreal. His Bachelor of Science was obtained at the University of Toronto and Master's degree at the Anatomy Department of McGill University. He graduated from McGill Medical School in 1990. Dr. Murray did his post-graduate training in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology at the University of Western Ontario. He first set up practice at Markham-Stouffville hospital in 1995. In 2003 he became co-found of the current Intestinal Health Institute where he continues his gastroenterology practice. Dr. Murray is the current President of the Ontario Association of Gastroenterology. He is also the Chair of the Section on Gastroenterology at the Ontario Medical Association. Dr. Murray is married with three children.

10:45 am - 11:55 am
(Ballroom)

OAG Annual General Meeting

11:55 am – 12:00 pm
(Ballroom)

Closing Remarks
Speaker: Dr. Imran Rasul

 

Details
Imran Rasul, MD, FRCP(C)
Chair of the Endoscopy Unit
Credit Valley Hospital
Treasurer, OAG

 

Dr. Imran Rasul completed his undergraduate training at the University of Toronto in 1992. He went on to complete his Medical Degree, Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology training at the University of Toronto. Further training in Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopy was completed at University of Toronto. He has been practicing in Mississauga at the Credit Valley Hospital for the past seven years. Dr. Rasul has an interest in Advanced Endoscopy and is Chair of the Endoscopy Unit at Credit Valley Hospital.

   

 


© 2024 Ontario Association of Gastroenterology
^