SATURDAY, MAY 30, 2026
8:40am – 8:50am

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Speakers:

Dr. Daniel Green, MD, FRCPC

Gastroenterology and Therapeutic Endoscopy 
Lakeridge Health and The Oshawa Clinic Group

Dr. Daniel Green is a staff gastroenterologist at Lakeridge Hospital and holds an academic appointment of Assistant Professor of Medicine at Queen’s University.  He also serves as Division Head, Gastroenterology for the Lakeridge Health Corporation. 

He completed his gastroenterology 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 and various other gastrointestinal conditions. 

He is the Medical Advisor for the Durham East Chapter of the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of Canada and serves on the Board of Directors for the Ontario Association of Gastroenterology as its current President and chair of the International Symposium on Liver and IBD Review.

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

Dr. Natasha Bollegala, Hon BSc., MD, MSc., FRCPC

Staff Gastroenterologist, Women’s College Hospital
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Fellow in the Institute of Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES)

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).