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Chelsia Gillis

ResearcherHuman NutritionMcGill University

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Chelsia Gillis

Researcher

Human Nutrition

Health Sciences

McGill University

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
56 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 24 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 3 research grants (3 CIHR), most recently in 2026.
Supervised 1 trainee who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2025.

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Publications

107

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Research

Adaptive Enrichment Design Clinical Trial Immunonutrition Malnutrition Oral Nutrition Supplements Perioperative Outcomes Prehabilitation Protein

Latest papers

Correction: Expert Consensus on Self-Reported Physical, Nutritional, and Psychological Screening Tools for Prehabilitation in Gastrointestinal Cancer Surgery: An International Delphi Study.
Annals of surgical oncology · 2026
Protocol for OPAL: Online prehabilitation for patients with cirrhosis awaiting liver transplantation - A multicentre randomized controlled trial.
Contemporary clinical trials · 2026
World Prehabilitation Day: advancing surgical optimisation beyond proof of concept.
The British journal of surgery · 2026

All 74 publications

Latest funding

Nutrition before cancer sUrgery To Reduce Infections comparing isonitrogenous supplements To ImmunonutritiON (NUTRITION) Trial
CIHR · 2026 · Nominated PI
$1,572,077
Enhancing candidacy for ovarian surgery with multimodal prehabilitation
CIHR · 2025 · Supervisor
$120,000
A Nutrition Intervention to Prevent Hepatic Encephalopathy in Patients undergoing Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt Insertion for Refractory Ascites: A Pilot Multicentre Randomized Controlled Trial (SUPPRESS-HE Pilot Trial)
CIHR · 2025 · Principal investigator
$309,826

All 6 grants and awards

74 publications.

Correction: Expert Consensus on Self-Reported Physical, Nutritional, and Psychological Screening Tools for Prehabilitation in Gastrointestinal Cancer Surgery: An International Delphi Study.

Reeves J, Karunaratne S, Alexander K, Petridis A, Carey S, Dhillon HM, Denehy L, Solomon M, Riedel B, Koh C, McBride K, Gillis C, White K, Hirst N, Shadid Z, Rahman I, Pillinger N, Steffens D, Global (P)rehabilitation Initiative Collaborative Group

Annals of surgical oncology2026

DOI: 10.1245/s10434-026-20360-6 PMID: 42686945

Protocol for OPAL: Online prehabilitation for patients with cirrhosis awaiting liver transplantation - A multicentre randomized controlled trial.

Cruz C, Mak C, Selzner N, Brahmania M, Marquez V, Khan MQ, Benmassaoud A, Velazquez CM, Niazi M, Bémeur C, Hogue C, Gillis C, Alemayehu W, Hyde A, Quintanilha M, Ezekowitz J, Spence JC, Ismond K, Rose CF, Prado CM, McNeely ML, Tandon P, all OPAL study investigators

Contemporary clinical trials2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2026.108415 PMID: 42521011

World Prehabilitation Day: advancing surgical optimisation beyond proof of concept.

Baldini G, Carli F, Denehy L, Gillis C, Jack S, Levett D, McIsaac DI, Santa Mina D, Parkington T, Sebio R, Slooter G, Steffens D, West MA

The British journal of surgery2026

DOI: 10.1093/bjs/znag119 PMID: 42745597

Malnutrition before Surgery: A Reserve, Mechanism, and Trajectory-based Framework for Perioperative Care.

Zhan YF, Tsang J, Gillis C

Anesthesiology2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1097/aln.0000000000006182 PMID: 42615476

Describing Successful Multimodal Prehabilitation Before Colorectal Cancer Resection: A Recursive Partitioning Analysis of Pooled Trial Data.

Tsang J, Gillis C, Dendukuri N, Carli F, Feldman LS, Wijeysundera D, Baldini G, Mayo N

Anesthesia and analgesia2026

DOI: 10.1213/ane.0000000000008209 PMID: 42575104

Are we measuring too late? Rethinking muscle assessment across the peri-ICU pathway.

Eggmann S, Gillis C, Rousseau AF

Intensive & critical care nursing2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.iccn.2026.104453 PMID: 42203529

Malnutrition in cancer surgery: A retrospective study on screening practices and outcomes.

Elsherbini N, Tahasildar B, Sangarapillai T, Gueorguieva VD, Mehrpouyan S, Elsherbini T, Cotoros M, Kim DH, Carli F, Gillis C

Nutrition in clinical practice : official publication of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1002/ncp.70161 PMID: 42528286

Prehabilitation in preparation for surgery.

McIsaac DI, Amado L, Kidd G, Wanczycki C, Boden I, Hladkowicz E, Gillis C

BMJ medicine2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1136/bmjmed-2025-001969 PMID: 42404250

Preoperative Risk Evaluation for Cancer Treatment (PREdiCT): protocol for an international cohort study evaluating a trimodal screening tool to predict outcomes following gastrointestinal cancer surgery.

Reeves J, Koh C, Alexander K, Solomon M, Karunaratne S, Petridis A, Carey S, Dhillon H, White K, Pillinger N, Gillis C, Hirst N, Shadid Z, Rahman MI, Boden I, Mahoney A, Woodfield J, Vagg D, De Boer HD, Sutton P, Pereira L, Drummond-Lage AP, Mcloughlin S, Alvarez A, Pirie K, Hii MW, Suliman A, Uçaner B, Schizas D, Nassim K, Albatool R, Ali K, Triantafyllou T, Styliana A, Merlini I, Van Daele E, Mulita F, Bell M, Martinez-Palli G, Koch C, Falconi M, Garmanova T, Deng N, Tirelli F, Lubbers T, Chwat C, Costales A, Hanna NM, Petrova A, Khamees A, Beard D, Granger CL, PREdiCT Study Investigators, Steffens D

BMJ open2026

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2026-118213 PMID: 42331585

Home-based, virtually supported multimodal prehabilitation compared with usual care prior to major surgery: a multicentre, pragmatic pilot randomised trial.

McIsaac DI, Hallet J, Kidd G, Lee S, Taljaard M, Tandon P, Wijeysundera DN, Gillis C, STRIVE Trial Investigator Group

BJA open2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.bjao.2026.100550 PMID: 42027625

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Chelsia Gillis

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Correction: Expert Consensus on Self-Reported Physical, Nutritional, and Psychological Screening Tools for Prehabilitation in Gastrointestinal Cancer Surgery: An International Delphi Study.

Protocol for OPAL: Online prehabilitation for patients with cirrhosis awaiting liver transplantation - A multicentre randomized controlled trial.

World Prehabilitation Day: advancing surgical optimisation beyond proof of concept.

Malnutrition before Surgery: A Reserve, Mechanism, and Trajectory-based Framework for Perioperative Care.

Describing Successful Multimodal Prehabilitation Before Colorectal Cancer Resection: A Recursive Partitioning Analysis of Pooled Trial Data.

Are we measuring too late? Rethinking muscle assessment across the peri-ICU pathway.

Malnutrition in cancer surgery: A retrospective study on screening practices and outcomes.

Prehabilitation in preparation for surgery.

Preoperative Risk Evaluation for Cancer Treatment (PREdiCT): protocol for an international cohort study evaluating a trimodal screening tool to predict outcomes following gastrointestinal cancer surgery.

Home-based, virtually supported multimodal prehabilitation compared with usual care prior to major surgery: a multicentre, pragmatic pilot randomised trial.

Nutrition before cancer sUrgery To Reduce Infections comparing isonitrogenous supplements To ImmunonutritiON (NUTRITION) Trial

Enhancing candidacy for ovarian surgery with multimodal prehabilitation

A Nutrition Intervention to Prevent Hepatic Encephalopathy in Patients undergoing Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt Insertion for Refractory Ascites: A Pilot Multicentre Randomized Controlled Trial (SUPPRESS-HE Pilot Trial)

Canada Research Chair - Tier 2

The PREHAAAB Trial: Multimodal prehabilitation for patients awaiting open Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm repair - An international randomized controlled trial.

Impact of Multimodal Prehabilitation Program on High Cardiovascular Risk Patients Undergoing Noncardiac Surgery - Feasibility Study

Frequent collaborators

Daniel Santa Mina

Leah Gramlich

Puneeta Tandon

Gurlavine Kidd

Laura Boland

Monica Taljaard

Brian Hutton

Amine Benmassaoud

Amal Bessissow

Gregg Nelson

Nancy Mayo

Sylvain Boet

Gabriele Baldini

Manoj Lalu

John Muscedere

Thomas Schricker

Julie Hallet

Ashley Hyde

Rona Fleming

Laura Tamblyn Watts

Didier Brassard

Allen Huang

Julie Nantel

Tien Le

Ian Randall

Mina Niazi

Areti-Angeliki Veroniki

Jayna Holroyd-Leduc

Vera Mazurak

Jayna Holroyd-Leduc

Kednapa Thavorn