Saturday, October 19, 2024 - 10:40 am - 11:00 am

Diagnosis and Management of Pouch Disorders

Session Objectives

• To understand how to classify pouch-related disorders
• To understand how to investigate pouch-related symptoms
• To understand the evolving treatments for pouch-related disorders

Speaker:
Dr. Jeffrey McCurdy, MD PhD FRCPC

Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Ottawa
Clinical Investigator, The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

Dr. Jeffrey McCurdy received his PhD in Immunology from Dalhousie University and MD from the University of Ottawa. He completed Gastroenterology training at Dalhousie University, and an advanced fellowship in IBD at Mayo Clinic, Rochester.

He is co-chair of IBD update (ibdupdate.ca), co-editor of the journal Canadian IBD Today and former chair of the Canadian Gastroenterology Residents-in-Training (GRIT) Course.

His research interests focus on identifying predictors of disease related outcomes in IBD, including perianal Crohn’s disease, infectious exacerbations of IBD and venous thromboembolism.