Trellus Health recently appointed Andres Jimenez, MD, MSEd, MBA, as Chief Medical Officer. Dr. Jimenez is a practicing physician specializing in preventive medicine and behavior change. He is also an Executive Advisor at the Cornell Johnson Graduate School of Management and the CEO of ImplementHIT, a digital health company whose software and curricula have impacted over a third of all US physicians. Dr. Jimenez will work closely with Connected Health to ensure effective training and utilization of the GRITT methodology and TrellusElevate platform by the licensed clinical care team. In association with this partnership, Connected Health has hired three senior members to its initial licensed clinical team . Connected Health's licensed care team have been trained on Trellus Health's GRITT resilience building methodology, which incorporates positive psychology principles into all aspects of chronic condition management. Trellus Health's resilience-driven methodology was validated on Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) patients at the Susan and Leonard Feinstein IBD Clinical Center at The Mount Sinai Hospital, where Crohn's disease was first identified by Burrill B. Crohn, MD, in 1932. Trellus Health's TrellusElevate and GRITT resilience-building methodology will initially focus on virtual care management for chronic gastrointestinal (GI) conditions with a high mental health burden, such as IBD. Trellus Health co-founders, Marla Dubinsky, MD, and Laurie Keefer, PhD, with decades of experience in IBD and psychogastroenterology respectively, have delivered their resilience-driven, whole-person approach and GRITT methodology to hundreds of patients at Mount Sinai's Feinstein IBD Center over the last five years. The co-founders will work closely with Connected Health's licensed clinical team to utilize and scale the GRITT methodology using the TrellusElevate virtual care platform and connected health solution. Sherese Fralin, MSN, NP, has joined as Connected Health's VP of Clinical Operations following 20 years of leadership experience in both clinical and research environments. Prior to joining Connected Health, Sherese was the Director of Advanced Practice Nursing at Lenox Hill Hospital, where she educated and evaluated the performance of 190 Nurse Practitioner staff. Sherese was recently featured in the Netflix documentary, "Lenox Hill – Some Heroes Wear White Coats." She is currently pursuing her PhD in nursing education with a focus on teaching resilience to oncology nurses and holds certifications in Reiki and Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Gregg Felice, LCSW-R, has joined Connected Health as a behavioral health and Resilience Specialist. In this role, he will assess patients and work with them to build resilience using Trellus Health's patent-pending GRITT methodology. A cancer-survivor and Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Gregg previously worked as the Director of Patient and Carepartner Advocacy at CurePSP — the foundation for prime of life neurodegeneration. He has over 25 years of healthcare experience prior to joining Connected Health, including management positions at Walgreens Speciality Pharmacy and BioScrip. Gregg also worked for 12 years as a Clinical Oncology Social Worker at the Westchester Medical Center. Emily Matson, MSc, RDN, CDCES, has joined as Connected Health's Registered Dietitian. A Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist, Emily has delivered nutritional counseling both in-person and via telehealth to patients living with IBD, IBS, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, hypertension, and provided pediatric and general wellness counseling. Before joining Connected Health, Emily worked as the Clinical Support Manager for Brook Health and Registered Dietitian at Dandelion Nutrition. Outside of Connected Health, Emily works as a diet and nutrition teaching assistant and is contributing to the next edition of Krause's Food & the Nutrition Care Process. The GRITT resilience assessment and personalized treatment methodology described is based on technology developed by Mount Sinai faculty and licensed to Trellus Health. Mount Sinai and Mount Sinai faculty, including Marla Dubinsky, MD, and Laurie Keefer, PhD, have a financial interest in Trellus Health. Mount Sinai has representation on the Trellus Health Board of Directors.