Ulcerative Colitis Video Perspectives

Dubinsky reports receiving consulting fees from AbbVie, Arena Pharmaceuticals, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol Myers Squibb, Celgene, Eli Lilly, Genentech, Gilead, Janssen, Pfizer, Prometheus Biosciences, Roche, Takeda and UCB; participating in contracted research for AbbVie, Janssen, Pfizer and Prometheus Biosciences; holding ownership interest/stock in Trellus Health; and receiving licensing fees from Takeda.

February 01, 2023

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VIDEO: Unmet needs of patients with ulcerative colitis

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Probably the most important unmet need that I'm hopeful that we will be addressing, companies that are trying to address this, is to recognize that in order for a IBD patient to thrive, the true combination therapy is not what drug you're combining with TNFs. The true combination therapy is emotional healing and physical condition healing.

And the fact that we know that the prevalence of anxiety and depression in our IBD patients, you know, you're 19, you're told you have an incurable chronic condition, that you may get surgery, oh, and you need to take this medicine and you may end up with an ostomy bag if you don't follow my instructions. This is all happening in the first visit. And so a toolkit where you're left to not self-manage with inaccurate information or sort of needing to figure out and find all this information and be able to have a toolkit that is able to make you as a patient the most effective authority and an effective self-manager all through the lens of some of the work that myself and Laurie Keefer are doing, it's all through the lens of resiliency training.

Because resiliency and being able to sort of bounce back from adversity and adapt your behaviors to correct any disease-interfering behaviors or your social determinants of health that are impacting your ability to thrive, the ability to give people the gift of the skills, the knowledge, the insights to really take charge of their health I think is really the future of IBD, you know, management and I'm happy that Laurie and I are sort of fully dove in completely and, you know, really founded Trellus Health for this exact reason, is that we feel very strongly that we'll change the lives of our provider colleagues as well as our patients by wrapping around their relationship of the provider and the patient and supporting and connecting them in between their doctor visits.