Dr. Barbara Bielawska is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine (Division of Gastroenterology) at the University of Ottawa, and a Clinician Investigator at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. Dr. Bielawska obtained a B.Sc. in Biomedical Science at the University of Ottawa in 2006. She graduated from the M.D. program at Queen’s University in 2010, where she subsequently trained in Internal Medicine. She then completed residency in Gastroenterology, followed by a fellowship in Clinical Nutrition, at the University of Toronto. In 2016, she returned to Queen’s University to obtain an M.Sc. in Clinical Epidemiology, which she completed in 2019. Dr. Bielawska is the Medical Lead for Inpatient Nutrition at The Ottawa Hospital, as well as the Director of the Home TPN program. Her clinical and research interests include parenteral and enteral nutrition support for benign and malignant disease, intestinal failure, malnutrition, sarcopenic obesity and bariatric malnutrition.