Behavioral medicine : My research is focused on showing how psychosocial factors (emotion, patient beliefs, relationships, coping style) influence the risk of onset, maintenance, and long term outcome of painful medical disorders, with a focus on IBS, chronic pelvic pain disorders and other highly centralized pain states
Brain-gut interactions
Chronic Disease Management : Dr Lackner is an internationally renowned expert in the science and practice of chronic disease management for behaviorally mediated illnesses including but not limited to chronic pain.