Alexis Oonk, MSN, FNP-C earned her Bachelors of Science in Biology at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee prior to attending the nursing program at University of Southern Maine. While at University of Southern Maine, she completed a Master’s of Science in Nursing completing her nurse practitioner training. While attending her graduate training she worked as a registered nurse at Maine Medical Center. After becoming credentialed as a Family Nurse Practitioner, Alexis moved from New England to Colorado and spent three years working at a general GI practice within the community caring for patients with a variety of GI disorders. It was during this time, she discovered that working with patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a passion of hers and was thrilled to join the IBD team here at University of Colorado Crohn’s and Colitis Center in 2013. Alexis’ clinical interests include providing high quality, evidence based care to our patients within the Crohn’s and Colitis Center. She finds providing care for these complex patients with attention to their multidisciplinary needs to be very rewarding. To this end, she has contributed recently to launching an IBD Multi-D clinic within the Crohn’s and Colitis Center in 2022, allowing for more efficient IBD, surgical, nutritional and psychological care for these complex IBD patients. Lastly, she supports the research efforts of the IBD clinic as well by performing screening and follow-up visits within the context of our clinical trials. Outside of work, Alexis’ hobbies include skiing, running and spending time with her husband and two kids.