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Women’s Health and IBD Video Resource
Following recommendations from our panel of young adults (who co-designed the Young Adult Support program), CCA organises special online meetings focused on topics requested by the program members. So far, we have organised three events (closed Zoom sessions) on mental health, employment and your rights, and stoma care. The next requested topic is Women’s Health and IBD. For this event, we have decided to move away from live Zoom sessions and instead recorded it to make it accessible on the CCA webpage. To cover the topic comprehensively (as much as possible in the limited time frame), we asked the IBD community to send us questions. These questions were addressed by the invited specialists and discussed with our consumer speakers. We hope you will find this resource useful. Thank you to the presenters, consumer speakers and all of you who sent us questions driving this discussion.
Session host: CCA Ambassador Jacinta Parsons.
Panel members:
Dr Emma Flanagan is a Gastroenterologist and Hepatologist and clinician researcher who combines private practice with a public hospital appointment at St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne. Emma is an expert in the optimal management of inflammatory bowel disease during pregnancy. Having completed a PhD focusing on inflammatory bowel disease in pregnancy, she continues to lead clinical research as the head of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Pregnancy clinic at St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne.
Dr Kate O’Reilly is a nurse and senior lecturer with the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Western Sydney University and teaches into both the undergraduate and post graduate programs. Kate is the Director of International (Programs and Engagement), in this role she collaborates closely with Hong Kong Baptist University through the offering of the Master of Nursing (Clinical Leadership). Kate’s research is focused on women’s health and currently exploring the impact of IBD on Australian women’s sexual and reproductive health.
Dr Marilla Druitt is an obstetrician and gynaecologist in Geelong, Victoria. She works in public and private and does research with Deakin Uni in mind body treatments for pelvic pain and endometriosis. She is the current president of Pelvic Pain Victoria and on Victorian government groups for Women’s Health Clinic redesign and the Women’s Pain Inquiry. She has been a RANZCOG councillor for 3 terms and is involved in writing the National Endometriosis Guidelines.
Consumer speakers:
Caitlin, Isabella, Stacey, Elena and Bobbie.
This event has received support from the Eirene Lucas Foundation.
If you have any questions or need of support, please contact us at [email protected]