VIDEO: Advanced training, education critical in quest to improve IBD care in South Asia
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In this Healio video exclusive, Parakkal Deepak, MBBS, MS, FACG, highlights several challenges faced by individuals with inflammatory bowel disease in South Asia, including an “inadequate availability” of IBD specialists.
“Currently, we have a few tertiary Centers of Excellence treating patients with IBD in the South Asian region, especially in India,” Deepak, associate professor of medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, said. “You often have patients travelling long distances, and even from other countries in that region, to see these specialists.”
Deepak, who also is vice president of the South Asian IBD Alliance, explains that the organization aims to raise awareness and improve IBD care in this area by expanding patient and provider education at conferences and hosting South Asian gastroenterologists at IBD Centers of Excellence in North America.
“We can then have these specialists go back to their countries to provide care at newer tertiary Centers of Excellence and reduce this gap in IBD specialists,” he said.
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