Kirsten Tillisch is Health Sciences Clinical Professor of Medicine; Chief, Integrative Medicine, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System at UCLA. OpenAlex indexes 221 publications with 11,846 citations (h-index 54); ClinicalTrials.gov lists 5 registered studies with this person as an investigator. By OpenAlex citation count, this profile ranks in the top 10% of Gastroenterology profiles in the findmyKOL directory.
Data verified 11 Oct 2026
Overview
Updated 14 Oct 2026
Kirsten Tillisch, MD, is Health Sciences Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCLA. The public record shows 221 publications with 11,846 citations (h-index 54), centered on Gastrointestinal motility and disorders, Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies. It also documents an investigator role on 5 registered clinical trials, industry payments reported by 1 companies, 2 NIH-funded awards (2006–2015).
- Most recent indexed publication: 2020 · Translational psychiatry
- Top research focus: Gastrointestinal motility and disorders
- 5 registered trials on ClinicalTrials.gov
- Open Payments reporting from 1 companies
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Indications focus
from trials led + research topicsResearch focus
OpenAlex concept fingerprintDrugs & molecules
across trials, industry payments and publicationsWorks with
trial sponsors and companies reporting paymentsScholarship
indexed output and impact (OpenAlex)Distinct works indexed by OpenAlex, matched via ORCID; 1 in PubMed.
Total citations across indexed works.
Hirsch index (OpenAlex). i10-index 87.
Clinical & industry
trials, payments and federal fundingContact
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Practice address
Telephone
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Updated 14 Oct 2026
Listed as an investigator on 5 registered studies on ClinicalTrials.gov. The most recent:
- Effectiveness of CES on Emotional and Cellular Wellbeing
Sponsor: University of California, Los Angeles
- Brain Biomarkers w/Mind-Body Tx in Veterans With Post Traumatic Headache (PTH)
Sponsor: University of California, Los Angeles
Industry payments
Updated 14 Oct 2026
1 company reported payments to CMS in program years 2025–2025. These are public disclosures, not judgments. The latest:
- Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.Program year20251 payment
Medicare prescribing footprint (2022)
The drugs this prescriber writes for Medicare patients, grouped by drug class and therapeutic area. Every percentage is a share of their total prescribing, so you can see what they prescribe most. These are proportions, not patient counts or dollar amounts. No condition is inferred: the claims record what was prescribed, never why.
Metabolism & gastrointestinal
100%Guanylate Cyclase-C Agonist100%Linzess100%Part D<11 patients
Drug classes come from the WHO ATC and U.S. National Library of Medicine (RxClass) classifications; prescribing counts come from the CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers file. Each drug is counted once, under its primary class. Medicare fee-for-service only, so no Medicare Advantage, commercial, or pediatric prescribing is included. CMS publishes this data about 17 months after the fact.
NIH funding
Updated 14 Oct 2026
2 NIH research awards on record, funded 2006–2015 per NIH RePORTER. The latest:
- Neuroimaging biomarkers of Mind-Body treatment response in chronic visceral pain
University of California Los Angeles
FY2015$543,612R01AT007137 - Neuroimaging biomarkers of Mind-Body treatment response in chronic visceral pain
University of California Los Angeles
FY2014$594,466R01AT007137 - Neuroimaging biomarkers of Mind-Body treatment response in chronic visceral pain
University of California Los Angeles
FY2013$581,466R01AT007137
Publications
Updated 14 Oct 2026
Their five most recent publications, matched to their ORCID record and linked to PubMed.
- Analysis of brain networks and fecal metabolites reveals brain-gut alterations in premenopausal females with irritable bowel syndrome.
Translational psychiatry
Article2020
Most-cited works
by citation count (OpenAlex)- 01Gut/brain axis and the microbiotaArticle1,499 citations2015
- 02Consumption of Fermented Milk Product With Probiotic Modulates Brain ActivityArticle1,191 citations2013
- 03Gut Microbes and the Brain: Paradigm Shift in NeuroscienceArticle1,031 citations2014
- 04The Brain-Gut Axis in Abdominal Pain SyndromesReview512 citations2010
- 05
Network
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Online presence
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uclahealth.org/providers/kirsten-tillisch
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Background & recognition
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Education
degrees and training on record- verifiedCorroborated by findmyKOL. We matched this record across two or more independent public sources (or a verified ORCID / NPI identifier bridge) before attributing it to this person.How we verify →uclahealth.org ↗
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- Bachelor of Fine Arts with honors
Otis Institute of Parsons School of Design
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Editorial & leadership roles
journal and society appointments- Member
Rome IV Committee for Central Disorders of Gastrointestinal Pain
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Awards & honors
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Secondary affiliations
appointments beyond the home institution- Chief of Integrative Medicine
VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System
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UCLA (Director, Mind Body Research Program)
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