Leighann Litcher-Kelly, PhD has received a voluntary appointment as
Research Assistant Professor of Medicine in addition to her principal
appointment as Research Assistant Professor of Psychiatry. The
appointment, by University President Samuel L. Stanley, Jr., M.D., is
effective March 14, 2012.
Dr. Litcher-Kelly is a health
psychologist who works in the Applied Behavioral Medicine Research
Institute in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science. An
expert on the relationship between psychosocial stressors and
gastrointestinal (GI) disorders, Dr. Litcher-Kelly is the Co-Principal
Investigator on two research studies: one in collaboration with
gastroenterologists at the Northport VA Medical Center, examining GI
symptoms and PTSD in service personnel returning home from Afghanistan
and Iraq; and the other, with the Stony Brook University
Department of
Medicine, analyzing risk and resiliency factors associated with motility
and functional GI diagnoses in an adults seen at the Stony Brook
Motility Center.
The joint appointment was recommended by the
gastroenterology faculty in the Department of Medicine in recognition of
Dr. Litcher-Kelly’s expertise in the field and as a means to further
the collaborative work between the Departments of Medicine and
Psychiatry.
