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Dr. Drossman and DrossmanCare provides scheduled or ongoing programs for helping clinicians in their professional development in patient care. This is accomplished in a variety of formats from our workshops to group and one-on-one sessions with or without patients present. Dr. Drossman is available for telephone consultations to help clinicians navigate difficult interactions with patients. He also consults on difficult to manage health issues.
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UNC Fellowship Rotation
The rotation will involve seeing patients with complex functional GI and motility disorders (FGIDs) often referred from out of state and from major referral centers. These patients have multiple co-morbidities and have failed usual treatments. The fellow will review the record, participate in the visits, and confer with faculty and staff on diagnostic and treatment options. The fellow will complete the consultation note in the electronic medical record. When feasible, the fellow will present and/or interview the patient during the functional GI conference. During this rotation, fellows will be provided with additional reading and videos to help gain a deeper background in 3 major areas: 1) communication skills, 2) functional GI and motility disorders, and 3) behavioral and psychotropic treatment methods.
The Goal for this rotation:
The GI Fellow must be able to provide patient care that is compassionate, appropriate, and effective for the treatment of health problems and the promotion of health. The GI Fellows are expected to:
- Gather and synthesize essential and accurate information to define a patient’s clinical problem(s).
- Develop a comprehensive management plan for patients
The Objectives for this rotation:
- Synthesize the history of patients with complex functional GI & motility disorders via review of the medical records
- Apply the biopsychosocial model to the assessment & management of patients with complex functional GI & motility disorders
- Create a differential diagnosis for patients with complex functional GI & motility disorders
- Become familiar with the use of behavioral, psychopharmacological and pharmacological treatments used for patients with functional GI and motility disorders
All Preceptorships
DrossmanCare provides a variety of educational formats for individuals and other organizations including industry interested in core training on communication skills. This is accomplished through a variety of formats including observerships in Dr. Drossman’s clinical practice, onsite workshops and comprehensive programs to address larger groups. The more comprehensive programs include lectures, small group sessions, role-play and personal awareness sessions. The staff at Drossman Care will work with you to design a program to meet your specific needs. For more information on this, please contact Jennifer Layton at jennifer@drossmancenter.com.
The following trainees, clinicians and investigator visited Dr. Drossman at the Drossman Center for Education and Practice of Biopsychosocial Care since 2012 or the UNC Center for Functional GI and MOtilty Disorders (2009-2011) to learn communication skills, methods for treating patients with functional GI disorders of the use of central neuromodulators in painful GI disorders. Each individual spend from a week to several months to learn these methods and listed below are the names of the visitors, their institution and a link to their comments.
Name: Dr. Rachel Sarnoff
Institution: University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Date: July 8-11, 2024
Name: Dr. Kalin Clark
Institution: Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR
Date: March 26-27, 2024
Name: Dr. Justin Brandler
Institution: Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, WA
Date: August 29-30, 2023
Name: Dr. Hannibal Person
Institution: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center
Date: January 14-16, 2020
The-Rome-Foundation-and-Drossman-Gastroenterology-welcomed-Dr.-Hannibal-Person-from-the-Icahn-School-of-Medicine-at-Mount-Sinai-Medical-Center-January-14-16-2020.pdf
Name: Dr. Baharak Moshiree, Dr. Elyse Thakur and MacKenzie Jarvic PA-C
Institution: Atrium Health in Charlotte, NC
Date: August 27-29, 2019
Drossman-Gastroenterology-welcomed-Rome-Visiting-Scholars-Dr.-Baharak-Moshiree-Dr.-Elyse-Thakur-and-MacKenzie-Jarvic-PA-C-to-the-office-August-27-29-2019-from-Atrium-Health-in-Charlotte-NC.pdf
Name: Jim Kantidakis, PsyD
Position: Gi Clinical Psychologist & Hypnotherapist, Founder & Director
Institution: The Gut Centre, Austraila
Date: May 12-15, 2019
Jim-Kantidakis-PsyD-Gi-Clinical-Psychologist-Hypnotherapist-May-12-15-2019.docx
Name: Jill Deutsch, MD
Position: Clinical Fellow in Training
Institution: Yale University School of Medicine
Date: April 16-18, 2019
Jill-Deutsch-MD-Rome-Visiting-Scholar-at-Drossman-Gastroenterology.pdf
Name: Jeanetta Frye, MD
Position: Assistant Professor of Medicine
Institution: University of Virginia Gastroenterology
Country: United States
Date: February 27-28
Name: Helen B. Murray, M.S.
Position: Clinical Psychology Doctoral Cadidate
Institution: Drexel University
Country: United States
Date: October 30-31, 2018
Name: Denes Botond Kovacs, MD
Position: Consultant General Surgeon
Insititution: Gibraltar Health Authority, St. Bernard’s Hospital
Country: Gilbraltar
Date: September 2018
Name: Dr. Hamish Philpott
Position: MBBS MRCP FRACP PhD
Country/City: Australia, Melbourne
Date: 2017
Name: Ruthvik Padival, MD
Position: Internal Medicine – Psychiatry Resident
Institution: University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
Country/ City: USA, Iowa City, Iowa
Date: December 2015
Name: Freddy Squela
Position: Gastroenterologist, Chief of Motility Lab at Indisa Clinic, Secretary of Chilean
Association of Neurogastroenterology
Institution: Universidad Andres Bello
Country/ City: Chile, Santiago
Date: July 2015
Name: Yeong Yeh Lee MD MRCP
Position: International Fellowship
Institution: University Sains Malaysia
Country/ City: Kubong Kerian,Malaysia
Date: Mar. 30th to Apr. 28th, 2015
2015.03-Yeong-Lee-Drossman-Gastroenterology_report_YYLee.pdf
Name: Emily Rolfsmeier
Position: GI fellow at OHSU in Portland, OR
Institution: OHSU
Country/ City: USA, Portland, OR
Date: Feb. 2015
Name: Cui Lihong
Position: Director of Gastroenterology Department (academic leader)
MD and PhD, Chief Physician, Professor, Doctoral supervisor,
Institution: Navy General Hospital PLA
Country/ City: China, Beijing
Date: September, 2014
Name: Li-Hua Peng, MD, traveled from China to North Carolina to learn more about FGIDs from Douglas A.Drossman, MD, MACG.
Position: Associate Chief Physician of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Institution: Chinese PLA, General Hospital
Country/ City: China, Beijing
Date: March, 2014
Li-Hua Peng MD, PhD associate chief physician of Gastroenterology and hepatology, Chinese PLA, General Hospital, Beijing China.
As part of the Drossman Care and Rome Foundation visiting scholar program Dr. Peng visited Drossman Gastroenterology in March 2014, please see the blog below for further information.
chinas-dr-li-hua-peng-visits-drossman-center-three-week-clinical-immersion-part-rome-china-collaboration.html
Name: Desale Yacob, MD
Position: Pediatric Gastroenterology
Institution: Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus Ohio
Country/ City: USA, Columbus Ohio
Date: March 2014
The following individuals came to Drossman Gastroenterology, PLLC in 2013 for training on improving their communication skills with patients.
Name: Peter Francisco, D.O.
GI
Position: Fellow
Country/City: USA,
Detroit MI
Date: 2013
Name: Eva Szigethy, MD, PhD
Position: Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics
Institution: University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Country/ City: USA/Pittsburgh
Date: October 2011
Name: Roy Dekel, MD
Position: Assistant Professor of Gastroenterology
Institution: Department of Gastroenterology,Tel Aviv Medical Center, Ichilov
Hospital, Israel
Country/ City: Israel, Tel Aviv
Date: September 2011
Name: Claude Botha, MD
Position: Psychiatry
Institution: Wingate Institute of Neurogastroenterology, Queen Mary University of London
Country/City: England, London
Date: May 2011
Name: Liming Zhu, MD
Position: Gastroenterologist
Institution: Department of Gastroenterology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital
Country/ City: Beijing, China
Date: June-Aug. 2010
Name: Dr. Hamid Afshar
Position: Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Isfahan University of Medical Sciences
Institution: Isfahan Psychosomatic Research Center
Country/ City: Iran
Date: April 2010
Name: Joseph Zimmerman M.D.
Position: Associate Professor
Institution: Hadassah Hospital Medical Center
Country/City: Israel, Jerusalem
Date: April-June 2009