Ulcerative Colitis Awareness

Anita Afzali, MD, MPH, FACG, medical director of The Ohio State University Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center, highlighted take home messages from gastroenterology conferences this year and explained what ‘awareness’ means to patients and physicians.

In this video, Afzali discusses:

• areas of unmet need;
• managing ulcerative colitis with complementary therapies;
• the meaning of ‘awareness’ to patients and clinicians;
• differentiating disease severity from disease prognosis; and
• recent treatment advances for patients with ulcerative colitis.