Invited Talks
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Digestive Disease Week, May 2010
Drs. Gerson presented the successful results of their group hypnotherapy IBS program at Digestive Disease Week, May 2010. You can read details of this presentation on the success of group hypnotherapy in treating IBS on our Original Research page.
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Irritable Bowel Syndrome in the Context of Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Dr. Charles Gerson was invited to Mt. Sinai Hospital in December of 2009 to discuss irritable bowel syndrome in the context of irritable bowel disease.
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Cross-Cultural Aspects of Functional Bowel Disorders
Drs. Charles and Mary-Joan Gerson were invited faculty at the bi-annual meeting of the International Foundation for Functional Gastro-intestinal Disorders (IFFGD), held in April 2009. The IFFGD is a lay organization that provides excellent support and information for patients with functional GI illness, and it sponsors this meeting where most of the leading IBS experts participate.
Drs. Gerson’s topic for discussion was cross-cultural aspects of functional bowel disorders, related to an eight country IBS survey they organized with two research publications, and the cross-cultural columns in the FBG newsletter that they edit.
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Psychoanalytic and Systemic Integration, and Global Family Therapy Crossing Theoretical and National Borders
Dr. Mary-Joan Gerson was invited by the American University in Cairo psychology department to give a roundtable presentation in February of 2009.
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Chronic Illness as Trauma
In April of 2008, Dr. Mary-Joan Gerson served as chair and discussant for the Chronic Illness and Trauma panel at the annual meeting of Division 39 (psychoanalysis) of the American Psychological Association.
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How Physicians and Psychologists Can Work Together
Drs. Charles and Mary-Joan Gerson were invited speakers at the Meet the Professor Luncheon at the annual Digestive Disease Week in the spring of 2006. The talk addressed the ways in which physicians and psychologists can work in tandem to best help their patients.
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