Ellen Kuenzig completed her Master’s in epidemiology from the University of Western Ontario in 2012 and her PhD in epidemiology from the University of Calgary in 2016. Combining her experiences living with Crohn’s disease and her passion for better understanding IBD, her research during her PhD focused on genetic and environmental risk factors IBD. After finishing her PhD, Ellen began working as a post-doctoral fellow with Dr. Eric Benchimol at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Studies. Ellen received the AbbVie IBD Scholarship from Crohn’s and Colitis Canada and twice received a Student Research Prize from Crohn’s and Colitis Canada at Canadian Digestive Diseases Week. Her fellowship is funded through an award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Crohn’s and Colitis Canada, and the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology.
Recent Posts
- Advancing a living evidence synthesis about the intersections between primary-care based population-health management (PHM) approaches and specialty service lines
- Digital Tools for IBS
- An innovative patient-led patient-oriented qualitative research project to understand the motivations and barriers to getting and staying involved in IMAGINE’s MAGIC study – Implementation Phase – (completed September 2020)
- Fecal Microbial Transplantation in active Ulcerative Colitis with Antibiotic Pre-treatment – Analysis Phase – October 2020
- Supporting Rapid Learning and Improvement for Select Chronic Conditions in Canada (final results completed February 2020)