Chelsia Gillis, RD PhD

School of Human Nutrition

Multimodal approaches in nutrition care: the role of functional assessment in surgical prehabilitation

Dietitians play a critical role in optimizing patients before treatment, yet traditional nutrition assessments may not fully capture the functional consequences of nutrition-related conditions. This session will explore the potential role of functional measures within nutrition care and their relevance to prehabilitation and pre-surgical patient optimization.

Speaker Bio:

Chelsia Gillis, MSc, PhD, RD, CNSC, is an Assistant Professor in the School of Human Nutrition at McGill University and an Associate Member in the Departments of Surgery and Anesthesia. She holds a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Perioperative Nutrition and serves as Director of Medical Research at the PeriOperative Program at the Montreal General Hospital. Dr. Gillis is a Registered Dietitian and Certified Nutrition Support Clinician®, with an MSc in Human Nutrition from McGill University and a PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Calgary.