Dr. Juan-Nicolás Peña-Sánchez

Dr. Juan-Nicolás Peña-Sánchez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology of the College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan. He is a physician from Colombia with a European Master of Public Health, and a Ph.D. from the University of Saskatchewan. His research program aims to promote innovative health care approaches that address the needs of populations and overcome the challenges of health care systems.

Dr. Peña-Sánchez led the creation of the Saskatchewan inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) cohort in collaboration with the Saskatchewan Health Quality Council using provincial administrative health data. He also led studies to evaluate the provincial epidemiological trends of IBD, the impact of an integrated model of care for patients with IBD, and IBD health care utilization disparities in Saskatchewan. He is part of the Canadian Gastro-Intestinal Epidemiology Consortium (CanGIEC) since 2016, contributing to multi-provincial population-based studies in the field of IBD.

Since 2018, Dr. Peña-Sánchez has been working in partnership with Indigenous patient and family advocates and interdisciplinary research team on raising awareness about IBD among Indigenous peoples and advocating for better access to IBD care and their well-being. In addition, he is the Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity Co-Champion of the Training Researchers in the Next Generation in Gastroenterology and Liver (TRIANGLE) program.

Website: https://medicine.usask.ca/profiles/che/juan-nicol%C3%A1s-pe%C3%B1a-s%C3%A1nchez-.php