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Deborah Proctor, MD

Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases); Medical Director, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program; Site Director, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Columbia and Yale/Stanford, Johnson and Johnson Global Health Scholar Program; President and Board of Directors, Honduras Children's Project, Internal Medicine

Contact Information

Deborah Proctor, MD

Mailing Address

  • Yale School of Medicine

    Department of Medicine (Digestive Diseases), PO Box 208019

    New Haven, CT 06520-8019

    United States

Research Summary

Our IBD Program group does clinical research with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients including evaluating and treating depression in patients with inflammatory bowel disease and setting up databases to correlate genotype with phenotypic expression. We participate in several international multi-center trials for different medications and databases.

Our HHT group does clinical research in patients with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) who also have gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding.

Specialized Terms: Inflammatory Bowel Disease; Crohn's Disease; Ulcerative Colitis; Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia

Extensive Research Description

Inflammatory bowel disease - our IBD Program group does clinical research with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients including evaluating and treating depression in patients with inflammatory bowel disease and setting up databases to correlate genotype with phenotypic expression. We participate in several international multi-center trials for different medications and databases.

HHT - Along with other members of our HHT Center, our group does clinical research in patients with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) who also have gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding.

GI Match - Collaborating with other colleagues, we have done research on the GI fellowship match.

1. Treating depression in patients with inflammatory bowel disease

2. Multi-center trials for new drugs in inflammatory bowel disease

3. Correlation of genotype with phenotypic expression in patients with inflammatory bowel disease

4. Global health training attitudes in trainees

Coauthors

Research Interests

Colitis, Ulcerative; Crohn Disease; Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage; Ileitis; Rectal Fistula; Telangiectasia, Hereditary Hemorrhagic; Global Health; Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Public Health Interests

Global Health

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Selected Publications

Clinical Trials

ConditionsStudy Title
Diseases of the Digestive System - Small Intestines, Large Intestines & RectumAn Extension Study of Oral Ozanimod for Moderately to Severely Active Crohn's Disease
Diseases of the Digestive System - Small Intestines, Large Intestines & Rectum; Diseases of the Digestive System - StomachInduction Study #1 of Oral Ozanimod as Induction Therapy for Moderately to Severely Active Crohn's Disease
Diseases of the Digestive System - Small Intestines, Large Intestines & RectumA Placebo-Controlled Study of Oral Ozanimod as Maintenance Therapy for Moderately to Severely Active Crohn's Disease
Diseases of the Digestive System - Small Intestines, Large Intestines & RectumThe OPTIMIZE Trial