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VIDEO: Multidisciplinary Teamwork Essential for Optimizing IBD Care
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ORLANDO — In this exclusive video from Advances in IBD 2017, Corey A. Siegel, MD, MS, associate professor of medicine and director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire, discusses the importance of a multidisciplinary approach to IBD care.
“We need to recognize that it’s not us as the gastroenterologists who are oftentimes the most important part of their care,” Siegel told Healio Gastroenterology and Liver Disease. “It’s our nurses, our nurse practitioners, our providers who are working with our patients in the clinic who are psychiatrists, psychologists, dieticians, nutritionists, and our social workers and others who are helping get our medications paid for, in addition, of course, to the clinicians like the surgeons and the gastroenterologists — it’s part of a team, because there are so many things going on with our patients that we need to be thinking about, and we can’t do it all in a very short time in the clinic.”
Reference:
Siegel C. Clinical Session IA. Presented at: Advances in IBD; Nov. 9-11, 2017; Orlando, Fla.
Disclosures: Siegel reports he is a co-founder of ColonaryConcepts, a patent- and stockholder for an IBD risk prediction model, and reports financial relationships with AbbVie, American Regent, Amgen, Celgene, Janssen, Lilly, Pfizer, Prometheus, Sandoz, Takeda and UCB.