Dr. Chelsia Gillis

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Chelsia Gillis is an Assistant Professor in the School of Human Nutrition at McGill University. As a Registered Dietitian and Certified Nutrition Support Clinician®, she focuses her research on enhancing surgical patient outcomes through evidence-based practice and translating findings into clinical application. Her research interests include prehabilitation, Enhanced Recovery Surgery, surgical metabolism, and patient engagement, with a specific emphasis on optimizing preoperative interventions that include exercise and nutrition. Dr. Gillis has received multiple research grants and recognitions, including the PhD Dissertation Award from the Canadian Nutrition Society for her work on recovery post-surgery. She emphasizes the importance of addressing modifiable risk factors such as malnutrition to improve recovery times for surgical patients. Committed to innovation in clinical nutrition, she challenges traditional assessment techniques by developing surgery-specific tools that integrate comprehensive evaluations of malnutrition and physical function to deliver personalized patient care.

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