Biography

Brian E. Lacy, PhD, MD, is professor of medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, section chief of the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, and director of the GI Motility Laboratory at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire. He received his doctorate in cell biology from Georgetown University in Washington, DC, and his medical degree from the University of Maryland in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr Lacy was a resident in internal medicine at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, where he continued his training as chief resident and then as a fellow in Gastroenterology. He is board certified in Gastroenterology. Dr Lacy's clinical and basic science research interests focus on disorders of gastrointestinal motility, with an emphasis on irritable bowel syndrome, dyspepsia, gastroparesis, acid reflux disease, constipation, intestinal pseudo-obstruction, achalasia, and visceral pain. He is the author or co-author of more than 85 peer-reviewed articles and the author or co-author of numerous textbook chapters on gastrointestinal motility disorders and functional bowel disorders. Dr Lacy is a reviewer for a number of scientific journals, and is a member of the American College of Gastroenterology, the American Gastroenterological Association, the American Neurogastroenterology and Motility Society, and the Rome Committee. Dr Lacy co-authored Healing Heartburn and is the author of Making Sense of IBS: A Physician Answers Your Questions about Irritable Bowel Syndrome, both books for the general public, the first regarding acid reflux disease and the second discussing irritable bowel syndrome. He is the editor and author of 2 books for health care providers titled Curbside Consultation in IBS: 49 Clinical Questions and Functional and Motility Disorders of the Gastrointestinal Tract: A Case Study Approach. Dr Lacy serves as editor-in-chief of the journal Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology.

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