Crohn’s & Colitis Congress™

Eva Szigethy
Professor of Psychiatry, Medicine and Pediatrics
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center


Eva M. Szigthy, MD, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry, Medicine and Pediatrics at University of Pittsburgh, is Director or the Visceral Inflammation and Pain Center in the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition and co-director of UPMC Total Care-IBD, an IBD subspecialty medical home. Dr. Szigethy’s major research interest has been in adapting a cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for depression in adolescents with physical illness using inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) as a model. She has conducted several studies funded by NIMH and the NIH Director’s Innovator Award to develop and show efficacy of CBT for depression and physical (pain, inflammation) outcomes for patients with IBD. In the past three years, Dr. Szigethy has focused her clinical and research interest on designing integrated medical-psychiatric models of care for patients with chronic disease. Recently Dr. Szigethy was recognized for her innovation in her life-time work with patients with IBD by winning the prestigious Sherman Prize.

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