Christina graduated from McMaster University with an undergraduate degree and continued with her graduate education obtaining a Master's and Nurse Practitioner Certificate from the University of Toronto. She started with the GIFT program in 2008 as a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner. She has worked on both the inpatient and outpatient roles within the GIFT program and has developed an interest in outcomes research related to many of the complications and long-term impact of intestinal failure. She has presented at a number of National and International conferences on work that has been completed at Sickkids as well as several publications in peer reviewed journals and this has led to completing a PhD in Clinical Epidemiology with a focus on the role of the caregivers in supporting children with intestinal failure on long-term parenteral nutrition in 2021.

EDr. Anita Nucci received a BS in Nutrition from the Pennsylvania State University and an MPH and PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Pittsburgh. She was a Dietitian at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh (1987-1996). In 1997, Dr. Nucci became Manager of the Department of Clinical Nutrition and the Intestinal Care & Rehabilitation Center. She was the North America Nutrition Coordinator for the TRIGR study (2001-2017). Dr. Nucci is now Associate Dean for Academics/Professor of Nutrition in the Byrdine F. Lewis College of Nursing and Health Professions at Georgia State University.

Brooke is a clinical dietitian from Melbourne, Australia, and has worked in the Liver and Intestinal Transplant Unit at Austin Health over 15 years. She is experienced in the nutritional management of all aspects of liver disease, intestinal failure and transplant. Brooke is active in clinical research to enhance outcomes for these patients with complex nutritional needs, and has recently completed her PhD focusing on malnutrition and sarcopenia in liver transplantation.