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    Deborah Proctor, MD

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    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

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    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

    Biography

    I. I founded the Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Program in 2005 at Yale University and directed it through 2024. I treat patients in four locations - Temple Medical Building, North Haven / Devine Street, Yale Health, and Yale-New Haven Hospital. The Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program is a multi-disciplinary program with medical, surgical, pediatric, pathology, and radiology specialists all participating in the care of our patients. Our program offers specialized nursing care and education with a physician assistant who specializes in patients with inflammatory bowel disease as well as an ostomy nurse who specializes in ostomy and wound care. Patients are self-referred as well as referred from other physicians. To schedule an appointment, please call 203-785-4138.

    Our IBD Program has a 4th year fellowship that takes a fully trained gastroenterologist and trains them in the intricacies of IBD specialization.

    In addition to multi-disciplinary patient care, our program offers opportunities for patients to participate in research studies that evaluate mood disorders in IBD; treatment choices in IBD; and participation in multi-center new drug treatment protocols.

    II. I am the gastroenterologist for the Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT) Center at Yale . I evaluate and treat patients with HHT who have gastrointestinal bleeding and other gastrointestinal related problems. To schedule an appointment, please call Katharine Henderson at 203-737-1427.

    III. International work - I am on the President for Honduras Children's Project, which is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing for the education of the children at C Orphanage in El Progreso, Honduras.

    www.honduraschildrensproject.org

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    Education & Training

    Fellowship
    Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (1992)
    Intern & Resident
    Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (1990)
    MD
    University of Cincinnati (1982)
    BS
    University of Toledo (1978)

    Research

    Overview

    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

    Medical Research Interests

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

    Public Health Interests

    Global Health

    Research at a Glance

    Yale Co-Authors

    Frequent collaborators of Deborah Proctor's published research.

    Publications

    2024

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    Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

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      2023 William. J. Pomfret Veteran Community Service Award

      Regional AwardMiddlesex County Chamber of Commerce
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      Best Doctors in America

      National Award
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      Honduras Children's Project

      Public ServiceBoard Member
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      Yale University Medical School

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      Best Doctors in America

      National Award
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    Clinical Care

    Overview

    Deborah Proctor, MD, is the medical director for the Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Program at Yale Medicine. The Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program is a multi-disciplinary program with medical, surgical, pediatric, pathology, and radiology specialists all participating in the care of our patients.

    "Our program offers specialized nursing care and education with a nurse practitioner who specializes in patients with inflammatory bowel disease as well as an ostomy nurse who specializes in ostomy and wound care," she says.

    In addition to multi-disciplinary patient care, our program offers opportunities for patients to participate in research studies that evaluate mood disorders in IBD, treatment choices in IBD, and participation in multi-center new drug treatment protocols.

    She also works with the Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT) Program. "I evaluate and treat patients with HHT who have gastrointestinal bleeding and other gastrointestinal related problems," she says.

    Clinical Specialties

    Gastroenterology

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    Yale School of Medicine

    Department of Medicine (Digestive Diseases), PO Box 208019

    New Haven, CT 06520-8019

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