Kristin Kenrick
Kristin Kenrick is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of General Practice and Rural Health at the Dunedin School of Medicine, where she teaches in the primary care programmes delivered to undergraduate medical students. She also has several years experience as an urban GP in Dunedin. In recent years she has become increasingly interested in issues surrounding the recognition and management of Coeliac Disease in the primary care setting, and in 2012 has begun PhD research into the topic.
Coeliac Disease in NZ - We Can Do Better Concurrent Workshop Repeated Sunday, 15 June 2014 Start 8:30am Duration: 55mins Room 4 Start 9:35am Duration: 55mins Room 4 In New Zealand, as in other countries, at least 1% of the population has coeliac disease. In a practice of 2000 patients, that should mean there are 20 coeliac patients, but in general we are falling well short of that number. In a New Zealand-based study conducted in 2012, people with coeliac disease reported that on average it took 11 years for them to be correctly diagnosed. We need to improve on this. GPs are ideally placed to identify people most likely to have coeliac disease but how do we find them? How should we investigate them? And how should we care for them once the diagnosis has been made? Is there more to the management of coeliac disease than the gluten-free diet? Drawing on the latest evidence based guidelines and recent research into coeliac disease, this workshop presentation will address these and related questions. The workshop is supported by Coeliac New Zealand.