UB Expert
Jeffrey Lackner
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Assistant professor
Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, and director of its Behavioral Medicine Clinic at the Erie County Medical Center
Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
898-5671
Expertise:
- Specialist in use of cognitive therapy in treating chronic pain
- Co-principal investigator on $2 million NIH-funded clinical trial of two non-medical treatments for irritable bowel syndrome
Lackner is director of Behavioral Medicine Clinic, UB Center for Pain Management, Erie County Medical Center. Published in Spine regarding chronic low back pain. Published in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology for his study, which showed that persons with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) can relieve their symptoms as effectively by following a self-administered, at-home cognitive behavioral program as they can by undergoing a 10-week in-office program administered by a trained therapist.
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