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FREE Webinar: Diagnosis and Treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Made possible by an independent grant from Takeda Pharmaceuticals to the NCCHC Foundation
Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)—which includes Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis—affects more than 3 million Americans, yet its burden in correctional settings often goes unrecognized. IBD is a complex, progressive, and systemic illness with potential complications far beyond the gut, including joint pain, skin disorders, and liver disease. Left unmanaged, it can significantly impact quality of life and contribute to costly hospitalizations.
Incarcerated individuals with IBD face unique and often serious barriers to care, such as limited access to specialists, restrictive formularies, and care disruptions during transfers or upon release. A recent study identified incarceration as an independent risk factor for IBD-related hospital readmissions—highlighting the urgent need for targeted interventions.
This webinar equips correctional health professionals with strategies to enhance early recognition of IBD flares and extra intestinal manifestations, learn modern therapeutic endpoints, deliver evidence-based care, and ensure continuity of care through culturally competent practices, telehealth, transition and post-release planning. The session will include multiple case studies that include interventions for the incarcerated patient with IBD.
Webinar Fee:
FREE – registration required. Registration includes access to the PPT slide presentation, webinar recording, and CE credit – 1.5 hours for ACCME, ANCC, APA, CCHP, and general.
Presenters
Bharati Kochar, MD, MS is a gastroenterologist and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) specialist at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA. She is also an Investigator at The Mongan Institute and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Kochar completed undergraduate and medical studies at Brown University, training in Internal Medicine at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and a fellowship in gastroenterology and hepatology as well as advanced training in IBD at The University of North Carolina. She also obtained a Masters of Science in Clinical Research at UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health. Dr. Kochar’s research interests center around advancing care for those who are understudied and underrepresented with IBD. Her research is funded by the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation as well as the National Institute on Aging.
Lori E. Roscoe, DNP, PhD, APRN, ANP-C, CCHP-RN is a nationally recognized expert in the field of correctional nursing and correctional health care and is a member of the NCCHC’s Multidisciplinary Education Committee. She is a member of the expert workgroup that revised the American Nurses Association’s Correctional Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice and a member of the NCCHC expert task force that reviewed and made suggestions for revisions to the Standards for Health Services in Jails/Prisons. Through Correctional HealthCare Consultants LLC, Dr. Roscoe provides professional consulting services in correctional health care operations and legal matters. She is principal of The Correctional Nurse Educator, a website that provides accredited continuing education specifically for correctional nurses. Dr. Roscoe also authors CorrectionalNurse.Net, an award-winning blog about correctional nursing, and Nursing Behind the Wall, a website that provides clinical scenarios with which correctional nurses can practice clinical judgment skills.