About
This working team, comprised of physicians, psychologists, and patient advocates, was formed to review the literature on the influence of communication skills on the Patient-Provider Relationship (PPR) and to make recommendations for implementation.
Members of the Working Team
Chair
Douglas Drossman, MD
President Emeritus & Chief Operating Officer, Rome Foundation
Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Psychiatry
UNC Center for Functional GI and Motility Disorders
University of North Carolina
Center for Education and Practice
of Biopsychosocial Patient Care and
Drossman Gastroenterology
Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Lin Chang, MD
Professor of Medicine
Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology of Stress
Division of Digestive Diseases
David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Jill Deutche, MD
Yale University School of Medicine
Clinical Fellow in Training
New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Alex Ford, MD
Leeds Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences
University of Leeds
Leeds, United Kingdom
Albena Halpert, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Boston University School of Medicine
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Kurt Kroenke, MD, MACP
Research Scientist
William M. Tierney Center for Health Services Research
Regenstrief Institute
Professor of Medicine
Indiana University School of Medicine
Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Johannah Ruddy, M. Ed.
Executive Director
The Rome Foundation
Wake Forest, North Carolina, USA
Julie Snyder, Psy.D.
Director, GI Psychology Service
Pediatric Psychologist
Department of Gastroenterology & Nutrition
Boston Children’s Hospital
Ami Sperber, MD
Emeritus Professor of Medicine
Faculty of Health Sciences
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Beer-Sheva, Israel