In this episode of Arthritis At Home, we are sharing the #CRArthritis interview with Dr. Kerri Novak, an Assistant Professor with the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Group in the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary. Dr. Novak is trained in intestinal ultrasound in Germany in 2012. When she returned to Calgary, she established the first inflammatory bowel disease clinic in Canada to provide routine intestinal ultrasound for patients with IBD.
Dr. Novak and Ellen Wang, ACE’s Programs Coordinator, discuss the utility of non-invasive ultrasound for the diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), IBD and its connection with spondyloarthritis, the evolution of IBD diagnosis and outcome measures, and how this technique can be implemented across the country.
Additional learning resource
- Crohn’s and Colitis Canada
- Canadian Digestive Health Foundation: The Role of Intestinal Ultrasound in Diagnosing and Monitoring IBD
- Arthritis Consumer Experts’ About Spondyloarthritis page
- The IBD Centre of BC