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The Multidisciplinary Team: Integrated Specialty Pharmacy Featuring David Choi, PharmD and Archariya Puangampai, PharmD
Fortunately for patients at the University of Chicago Medicine Digestive Diseases Center, specialty pharmacists David Choi, PharmD, BCACP, and Archariya Puangampai, PharmD, BCPS, have honed expertise in helping patients understand their medications, and also navigate other barriers such as insurance challenges to gain access to these life-changing medicines.
Montana Weissner, Empowered IBD Patient, “Taking care of your health is most important.”
Wise beyond her years, she has sage advice for patients with Crohn’s disease: “Don’t be afraid to grieve. It’s going to be really hard, and you are going to feel sad, and that’s okay. And also, don’t get caught up in what you think everyone else is doing.”
Gut-Healthy Recipe: Banana Peanut Butter Smoothie
For patients with digestive diseases, bananas and oats are easy-to-digest prebiotic and probiotic foods containing soluble fiber, while peanut butter or peanut butter powder adds protein and flavor.
2021 GIRF Scholar Kinga Skowron Olórtegui, MD, Update: Pouchitis Risk Factors Database
Different risk factors, including the type of sutures used to create the pouch, BMI, patient’s sex, prior C. difficile infection, and prior use of anti-TNF medications, all predicted different types of pouchitis.
2021 GIRF Scholar Tina Rodriguez Update: Investigating Inflammation, IBD and Mental Health Disorders
Research suggests inflammation itself may influence a patient’s development of mental health disorders. In this way, treating inflammation could have benefits for a person’s mental state.
Billy Perry, former Hepatitis C patient, “I won’t waste their time. If they don’t work, then I can’t work. If I don’t work, I’m gone…”
“This is the only hospital I have ever known to sit down with you, literally. They don’t hand you papers and tell you what this medication is. They sit down with you…. and tell you how important it is to take this medicine.”
Gut-Healthy Recipe: Peach Green Tea Lemonade Popsicles
Gut Healthy: Peach Green Tea Lemonade Popsicles Recipe
IBD Updates: New Medications and COVID-19 Vaccine Updates with Russell D. Cohen, MD, and David T. Rubin, MD
“For many years, we had just a few treatments, which we had to give to everyone… with the help of research, [we are hoping to] identify the predominant inflammatory pathway for each patient, and then choose the best agent, customized for that patient…”
In Memoriam: Beatrice “Bee” Goldberg Maling Crain
Beatrice Crain, better known as Bee to her friends and family was the grand lady of Chicago. She...