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Laurie Keefer, PhD

Keefer is a GI health psychologist and director of Psychobehavioral Research at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She serves on the Healio Gastroenterology Peer Perspective Board.

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April 12, 2024
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VIDEO: Psychological resiliency optimizes disease management, positions patients to thrive

In this video, Laurie Keefer, PhD, Healio’s 2023 Allied Health Provider of the Year, underscores the importance of providing interventions to patients at the time of a GI diagnosis — not just when symptoms of depression or anxiety develop.

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May 23, 2022
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Rome Foundation GastroPsych Group discusses progress, vision at DDW 2022

The Rome Foundation GastroPsych Group conducted a hybrid meeting at Digestive Disease Week in San Diego to review progress over the past year and determine goals for the years to come.

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March 24, 2022
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VIDEO: Interdisciplinary care model improves psychosocial disease outcomes in IBD

Preliminary data from the COMPASS-IBD study showed an interdisciplinary care model improved psychosocial outcome values among patients with inflammatory bowel disease.

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January 26, 2021
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VIDEO: Ask patients with IBD, ‘how happy are you?’

In this exclusive video from Crohn’s and Colitis Congress, Laurie Keefer, PhD, from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, discusses her presentation on subjective wellbeing in patients with IBD.

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October 27, 2020
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VIDEO: 'Building warriors': Resilience training in IBD

In this exclusive video from the American College of Gastroenterology Virtual Annual Scientific Meeting, Laurie Keefer, PhD, from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai discusses her presentation on the GRITT method, a resilience-based care model for patients with inflammatory bowel disease.

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February 07, 2020
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Welcome to When in Rome: Healio’s Gastro Psych Blog

In an ongoing effort to keep up with the rapidly expanding field of psychogastroenterology and the latest updates on research, science and clinical practice advocacy, Healio Gastroenterology and Liver Disease proudly presents “When in Rome: Gastro Psych Blog.” This new resource aims to give practicing physicians more insight into the scientific and clinical intersection of gastroenterology and psychology.