Visceral: Listen to Your Gut
Visceral: Listen to Your Gut features the latest research updates and treatment options on specific digestive diseases. Episodes are presented by the physician-scientists and experts at the University of Chicago and feature compelling patient stories. Podcast episode topics include pediatric Crohn’s disease; risk and prevention of GI cancer; hepatology and liver disease; the microbiome and gut health; surgical treatments for ulcerative colitis, and the intersection of diet, nutrition, and GI health.
Episodes
The GI Research Foundation was able to produce this podcast with sponsorships from AbbVie and Metro Infusion Center.
With David T. Rubin, MD, Joseph B. Kirsner Professor of Medicine; and Ashley Sidebottom, PhD, Research Assistant Professor and Platform Director, Host-Microbe Metabolomics Facility, University of Chicago
Struggling with sleep and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)? You're not alone. This episode dives deep into the surpr...
The GI Research Foundation was able to produce this podcast with a sponsorship from AbbVie.
With Lalitha Sitaraman, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, the University of Chicago Medicine
Lalitha Sitaraman, MD, one of the newest members of the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, focuses her research on the connection between the nervous system and the lower intestinal tract. Disordered motility can contribute to constipa...
The GI Research Foundation was able to produce this podcast with a sponsorship from AbbVie.
Featuring Amelia Kellar, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, the University of Chicago Medicine
Join us for a candid conversation about pediatric inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Our guest, Amelia Kellar, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, specializes in the treatment of children with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. Dr. Kellar is...
The GI Research Foundation was able to produce this podcast with a sponsorship from AbbVie.
Featuring Lori Rowell Welstead, MS, RD, LDN and Courtney Schuchmann, MS, RD, LDN
Registered Dietitians with the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center
"People might think that a registered dietitian is going to say, 'cut this out, cut that out,' where in reality, we focus on adding food back into to your diet to really optimize your nu...
Episode 5 of Visceral features Alyse Bedell, PhD, GI psychologist, who discusses the ways in which Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis can impact mental health and personal well-being. Dr. Bedell shares research to help patients understand how IBD relates to anxiety, depression, and other mental health challenges, and how to harness the mind-body connection to help manage pain and symptoms.
Confusingly, similar acronyms describe two very different conditions of the lower GI tract: IBD (inflammatory bowel disease) and IBS (irritable bowel syndrome). IBD is often treated with biologic medical therapies that are infused, injected, or taken orally. IBS, or irritable bowel syndrome, is a diagnosis of exclusion, and treatment includes a different set of medication options and dietary advice. Experts from the Digestive Disea...
Advanced Practice Nurses and leaders in the field of ostomy care Janice Colwell, APRN, CWOCN, FAAN, and Marita Kametas, MSN, APN, FNP-BC, CMSRN, COCN offer need-to-know information about post-surgical life with an ostomy for IBD patients.
Jan Colwell speaks from over 40 years of experience as a wound, ostomy, and continence specialist, and is the director of the Ostomy Care Clinic at the University of Chicago Medicine; and Marita Ka...
In the latest episode of Visceral: Listen to Your Gut, Russell D. Cohen, MD, and Emily Dobrez, APN, discuss the ways patients can best manage their Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis using the latest available treatments. Listen now to episode 2: The Art and Science of IBD Treatment.
More information on treatment options from Dr. Cohen and Sushila Dalal, MD, is also available in this online video.
Written and produced by Anna Gom...
In this podcast, we interview Dr. Eugene Chang, a national and renowned physician-scientist from the University of Chicago. In his lab, he and his team study the interactive relationship between intestinal microbes and the gut they live in, a relationship that is fundamental to our health. When the right balance is disturbed, the consequences can be catastrophic. Large shifts in the bacteria that make up the human microbiome (often...
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