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Dr. Brian E. Lacy is currently an associate professor of medicine at Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover, New Hampshire, and director of the GI Motility Laboratory at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire.

Dr. Lacy's clinical and basic science research interests focus on disordersof 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 of numerous articles and textbook chapters on gastrointestinal motility disorders and functional bowel disorders.

Dr. Lacy is a reviewer for a number of scientific journals, and is amember of a number of different scientific organizations, including the American College of Gastroenterology, the American Gastroenterology Association, the American Motility Society, and the Functional Brain-Gut Research Group. Dr.Lacy is the co-author of a book for the general public on acid reflux disease, Healing Heartburn, is the author of Making Sense of IBS, a book for the general public on irritable bowel syndrome, and is the editor of Curbside Consultations in IBS: 49 Clinical Questions (release date spring 2011).

Dr. Lacy received his doctorate in cell biology from Georgetown University in Washington, DC, and his medical degree from the University of Maryland in Baltimore. Dr. Lacy was a resident in internal medicine at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH, where he continued his training as chief resident and as a fellow in gastroenterology. He is board certified in both internal medicine and gastroenterology.