Speaker

Elizabeth Lee, MN, NP, CGN(C)

Toronto General Hospital
Elizabeth Lee, MN, NP, CGN(C)

Biography

Elizabeth Lee is a nurse practitioner at the Toronto Centre for Liver Disease, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network (UHN) in Toronto, Canada. She has worked for over 17 years in various clinical settings in the community and within UHN, spanning the continuum of chronic liver disease from diagnosis to transplantation.Her main clinical focus is on the management of patients with cirrhosis and alcohol-associated liver disease (ALD). She works on developing quality improvement initiatives and research projects aimed at optimizing clinical management in these patient populations. She is the Associates Chair for the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) Special Interest Group (SIG) Steering Committee for ALD, and is a founding member of the Canadian Association for the Study of the Liver (CASL SIG) for ALD. She is completing a PhD in Health Systems Research (Health Informatics) at the University of Toronto's Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation (IHPME). She is also an Adjunct Lecturer through the Faculty of Nursing at University of Toronto.