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Laurie Keefer is affiliated with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of medicine, with a significant emphasis on gastroenterology. Keefer's work spans over 238 publications, addressing both broad and specialized areas within biomedical sciences.

Their contributions to gastroenterology are substantial, with 59 publications dedicated to this subfield. Additional research areas include genetics, epidemiology, surgery, and speech and hearing, reflecting a diverse academic portfolio. The scientist's work covers major topics such as inflammatory bowel disease, gastrointestinal motility and disorders, microscopic colitis, adolescent and pediatric healthcare, gastroesophageal reflux and treatments, eosinophilic esophagitis, and quality of life issues in childhood cancer survivors.

Keefer's frequent coauthors include Marla C. Dubinsky, Ryan C. Ungaro, Ksenia Gorbenko, Bruce E. Sands, and Robert Hirten, illustrating collaborative efforts across multiple studies and projects.

Publication venues frequently featuring Keefer's research include Gastroenterology, which has published 49 of their papers. Other notable journals include The American Journal of Gastroenterology (19 publications), Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (17 publications), Neurogastroenterology & Motility (13 publications), and Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology (9 publications).

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Laurie Keefer are:

  • A Rome Working Team Report on Brain-Gut Behavior Therapies for Disorders of Gut-Brain Interaction, 2021, Gastroenterology
  • ACG Clinical Guideline: Management of Irritable Bowel Syndrome, 2020, The American Journal of Gastroenterology
  • Depression and anxiety in inflammatory bowel disease: epidemiology, mechanisms and treatment, 2022, Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology
  • Use of Physiological Data From a Wearable Device to Identify SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Symptoms and Predict COVID-19 Diagnosis: Observational Study, 2021, Journal of Medical Internet Research
  • Irritable bowel syndrome and mental health comorbidity - approach to multidisciplinary management, 2023, Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Best Publications

  • Development and Validation of the Rome IV Diagnostic Questionnaire for Adults

    Olafur S. Palsson;William E. Whitehead;Miranda A.L. Van Tilburg;Lin Chang

  • Controversies Revisited : A Systematic Review of the Comorbidity of Depression and Anxiety with Inflammatory Bowel Diseases.

    Antonina Anna Mikocka-Walus;Antonina Anna Mikocka-Walus;Simon Knowles;Laurie Keefer;Lesley Graff

  • Biopsychosocial Aspects of Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders: How Central and Environmental Processes Contribute to the Development and Expression of Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders

    Lukas Van Oudenhove;Rona L. Levy;Michael D. Crowell;Douglas A. Drossman

  • Quality of Life in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-analyses—Part II

    Simon R Knowles;Lesley A Graff;Helen Wilding;Helen Wilding;Catherine Hewitt

  • Impact of sleep disturbances in inflammatory bowel disease.

    Ziba Ranjbaran;Laurie Keefer;Ashkan Farhadi;Edward Stepanski

  • Psychopathology in irritable bowel syndrome: support for a psychophysiological model.

    Mark A. Sykes;Edward B. Blanchard;Jeffery Lackner;Laurie Keefer

  • The relevance of sleep abnormalities to chronic inflammatory conditions.

    Z. Ranjbaran;L. Keefer;E. Stepanski;A. Farhadi

  • Impact of Perceived Stigma on Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patient Outcomes

    Tiffany H. Taft;Laurie Keefer;Christoph Leonhard;Michele Nealon-Woods

  • The effects of relaxation response meditation on the symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome: results of a controlled treatment study.

    Laurie Keefer;Edward B Blanchard

  • Psychological Interventions for Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

    Sarah Ballou;Laurie Keefer

  • Best Practice Update: Incorporating Psychogastroenterology Into Management of Digestive Disorders.

    Laurie Keefer;Olafur S. Palsson;John E. Pandolfino

  • Preliminary evidence supporting a framework of psychological adjustment to inflammatory bowel disease.

    Jennifer L. Kiebles;Bethany Doerfler;Laurie Keefer

  • A Rome Working Team Report on Brain-Gut Behavior Therapies for Disorders of Gut-Brain Interaction

    Laurie Keefer;Sarah K. Ballou;Douglas A. Drossman;Gisela Ringstrom

  • A controlled evaluation of group cognitive therapy in the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome

    Edward B. Blanchard;Jeffrey M. Lackner;Kathryn Sanders;Susan Krasner

  • Improvement in Gastrointestinal Symptoms After Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Refractory Irritable Bowel Syndrome.

    Jeffrey M. Lackner;James Jaccard;Laurie Keefer;Darren M. Brenner

  • The adult eosinophilic oesophagitis quality of life questionnaire: a new measure of health-related quality of life.

    T. H. Taft;E. Kern;M. A. Kwiatek;I. Hirano

  • An initial report of sleep disturbance in inactive inflammatory bowel disease.

    Laurie Keefer;Edward J. Stepanski;Ziba Ranjbaran;Laura M. Benson

  • Type, rather than number, of mental and physical comorbidities increases the severity of symptoms in patients with irritable bowel syndrome.

    Jeffrey M. Lackner;Chang-Xing Ma;Laurie A. Keefer;Darren M. Brenner

  • Centrally Mediated Disorders of Gastrointestinal Pain

    Laurie Keefer;Douglas A. Drossman;Elspeth Guthrie;Magnus Simrén

  • A systematic review of disease-related stigmatization in patients living with inflammatory bowel disease

    Tiffany H Taft;Laurie Keefer

  • The role of self‐efficacy in inflammatory bowel disease management: Preliminary validation of a disease‐specific measure

    Laurie Keefer;Jennifer L. Kiebles;Tiffany H. Taft

Frequent Co-Authors

James Jaccard
James Jaccard New York University
Edward B. Blanchard
Edward B. Blanchard University at Albany, State University of New York
Leonard Katz
Leonard Katz Haskins Laboratories
Zoran Martinovich
Zoran Martinovich Northwestern University
Brian M. Quigley
Brian M. Quigley University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Antonina Mikocka-Walus
Antonina Mikocka-Walus Deakin University
Tara E. Galovski
Tara E. Galovski Boston University

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