Senior assistant professor, M.D., Cristina POJOGA

Cristina Pojoga is licensed in both psychology (Babes-Bolyai University) and medicine (M.D.; “Iuliu Haţieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Cluj-Napoca). She is a physician specialist în gastroenterology, trained also in behavioral medicine and cognitive behavioral therapies (e.g., at the Albert Ellis Institute, USA). Her expertise is related to behavioral medicine, clinical health psychology, and psychosomatics, more specifically to improving the quality of life and the efficacy of medical treatments în various gastrointestinal disorders by evidence-based psychological interventions.

Sample of Representative Scientific Papers (Web of Science-Thomson ISI):

• Pojoga, C., Dumitrascu, D., Pascu, O. et al., (2004). Impaired health-related quality of life in Romanian patients with chronic hepatitis before antiviral therapy. European Journal of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, 16, 27-31.
• David, D., Brown, R., Pojoga, C. et al. (2000). The impact of posthypnotic amnesia and directed forgetting on implicit and explicit memory: New insights from a modified process dissociation procedure. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 48, 267-289.
• Pojoga, C., Stanculete, M., & Dumitrascu, D. (2006). Patient anxiety at colonoscopy. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 61, 426-426 (proceedings).
• Stanculete, M., Pojoga, C., & Dumitrascu, D. (2006). The relationship between irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and depression. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 61, 426-427 (proceedings).