PROFILE

Dr. Bernard Nemchausky is the Chief, Spinal Cord Injury/Dysfunction Service at Hines VA Hospital. He is a well-recognized for the superb, state-of-the-art care he provides to his veteran patients and for his clinical research geared toward gastrointestinal motility disorders, pressure sores and other conditions afflicting spinal injured patients. He is also accomplished in the field of evaluating the effectiveness of treatments for liver diseases such as those resulting from alcoholism and Hepatitis C. He has also been an active participant in a number of the VA’s, national, long-term studies including one which evaluated the effectiveness of a synthetic steroid, oxandrolone, in the treatment of alcoholic hepatitis and another which examined whether colchicine, a drug typically used to treat gout, can alter the course of alcoholic hepatitis and cirrhosis. He has participated in numerous VA and industry-sponsored Phase II, II, and IV clinical trials, assessing the safety and efficacy of new drugs to treat liver disease, impotence, and pressure sores. He has also collaborated in chronobiological studies aimed at understanding our body’s biological time-keeping systems and how they affect the occurrence and treatment of disease. Recently, he has particpated in a study examining the chronobiology of multiple sclerosis. Dr. Nemchausky has received funding for his research from the VA, foundations and private industry. He is the author of more than 50 peer-reviewed journal articles.

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