Mentor Areas
My research in Gastroenterology (Internal Medicine) focuses on patient-oriented clinical research in adults with inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) related to:
- inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis
- clinical trials, randomized controlled trials
- patient-reported outcomes
- implementation science, clinical effectiveness, multiphase optimization strategy
- behavioral interventions
Description:
I am an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at Penn Medicine's IBD Program. I am a clinician-scientist trained as a gastroenterologist with specialized clinical training and research experience in adults with inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD).
Guided by my view that health is more than the absence of disease, my goal is to harness Clinical Effectiveness research to identify, implement, and disseminate effective interventions through pragmatic clinical trials with advanced designs, such as factorial trials, to improve the function and quality of life for IBD within a biopsychosocial model for holistic care. Toward this goal, I obtained foundational training on the Multiphase Optimization Strategy (MOST) for behavioral clinical trial designs through New York University and clinical effectiveness research through the Program in Clinical Effectiveness at Harvard University.
I am the Site Principal Investigator (PI) for the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation's IBD Qorus Learning Health System:
"That drive is what powers IBD Qorus®, our groundbreaking collaboration between patients and healthcare providers to streamline and improve the quality of IBD care across the country to ensure all patients get high-quality care, treatment, and outcomes. Care centers who participate in IBD Qorus® become part of a nationwide learning health system of providers and patients tracking care delivery performance to improve patient outcomes. Shared learnings and data from these sites have led to improvements in key outcomes measures such as reductions in corticosteroid and opioid use, emergency room visits, and hospitalizations. To learn more, check out: How IBD Qorus Works | Crohn's & Colitis Foundation (crohnscolitisfoundation.org)"
I am the Principal Investigator (PI) for three active prospective clinical effectiveness trials to test multisectoral, multidisciplinary behavioral interventions to improve the long-term outcomes of adults with IBD by targeting psychosocial factors as non-inflammatory drivers of disease burden in IBD. Multicomponent, multimodal interventions for my randomized controlled trials include IBD-specific cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) delivered via telehealth (ADEPT Trial) and four multimodal IBD-specific self-help tools (CORE Preference and Acceptability Study; EMPOWER-IBD Trial). My research interests and experience were built upon my formal clinical training and mentored research experience in IBD during my internal medicine residency at the Mayo Clinic, gastroenterology fellowship at Brown University, and an Advanced IBD Preceptorship at the University of California, San Diego.
For more information about my research, please visit: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/chung-sang.tse.1/bibliography/public/
Preferred Qualifications
- Excellent organizational abilities
- Strong time-management skills
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills for understanding and interpreting data, identifying trends and patterns, and gathering new information
- Seek and implement feedback
Project Website
Learn more about the researcher and/or the project here. Chung Sang Tse's Research Publications
Details:
Preferred Student Year
First-year, Second-Year
Academic Term
Fall, Spring, Summer
I prefer to have students start during the above term(s).Volunteer
Yes
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No
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No
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