Citizen Scientist Spotlight
Meet Samantha Conley!
"I want to help people living with IBD live a better life through better management of symptoms."
Samantha Conley is both a patient member of IBD Partners (previously "CCFA Partners") and an Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) researcher. She recently partnered with IBD Partners to complete a project for her PhD dissertation on how symptoms cluster in IBD. You can read a full summary of her project here. We also caught up with Samantha to ask her a few questions about her IBD journey and about her research project:
Tell us a little about yourself.
I have a PhD in nursing from Yale University, and I work as a nurse scientist. My interest is in symptom management in people with IBD. I want to help people living with IBD live a better life through better management of symptoms. I am interested in the symptoms of pain, fatigue, depression, anxiety, and sleep disturbance. I also have IBD.
What drove you to join IBD Partners?
I love participating in IBD research. I think that through research we can get answers to many of the challenges of living with IBD. IBD Partners provides a unique and wonderful opportunity to contribute to research that will help us all - patients, clinicians, and researchers - better understand IBD.
How has IBD influenced your career choice?
Having IBD has greatly influenced what I research. Early in my nursing career, I was involved in diverse research projects. I kept returning to IBD research, because people with IBD would come to me asking for help managing their symptoms. Having IBD has given me a different perspective in my work as a nurse researcher, as I have first-hand knowledge of the day-to-day life with the disease. It provides me the passion I need to work on research in order to help people with IBD better manage symptoms. [...]
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