Natasha Bollegala

Dr. Natasha Bollegala HonBSc, MD, MSc, FRCPC is a staff gastroenterologist at Women’s College Hospital, Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine, University of Toronto and Fellow in the Institute of Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES). She is a clinician investigator in quality and innovation, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto. She 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 has an interest in the area of quality improvement and vulnerable populations in IBD. She conducts research related to IBD with a particular focus on pediatric to adult transition of care. She serves as the quality Improvement advisor to the colonoscopy - quality management partnership, CPSO. She co-chairs the Canadian IBD Transition Network. She leads the QI primer initiative with the quality affairs board of the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology and is on the Board of Directors for the Ontario Association of Gastroenterology.