Associate Professor

Elena Vegni is Associate Professor of clinical psychology at the Department of Health Sciences, University of Milan. She holds a 4-yr degree in Philosophy, a 5-yr degree in Psychology, and a 4-yr training in Psychotherapy. She teaches physician-patient relation and communication skills and clinical psychology to medical students at the University of Milan. She also serves as the Chief of the Clinical Psychology Unit at San Paolo University Hospital, Milan.

Her academic work has focused on clinician-patient communication, patient education, and patients’ illness experience. She is an expert of interaction analysis processes, and in particular she has been trained by D. Roter in the use of the Roter Interaction Analysis System. She has experience also in qualitative research, in particular on the principles of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. She is author of several national and international articles published on journals such as Patient Education and Counseling, Journal of Health Psychology, Minerva Medica and Medical Education.

• Lamiani, G., Dordoni, P., Vegni, E., & Barajon, I. (2019). Caring for Critically Ill Patients: Clinicians’ Empathy Promotes Job Satisfaction and Does Not Predict Moral Distress. Frontiers in Psychology, 10.
• Pouillon, L., Danese, S., Hart, A., Fiorino, G., Argollo, M., Selmi, C., … & Vegni, E. (2019). Consensus report: clinical recommendations for the prevention and management of the nocebo effect in biosimilar‐treated IBD patients. Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics, 49(9), 1181-1187.
• Leone, D., Gilardi, D., Corrò, B. E., Menichetti, J., Vegni, E., Correale, C., … & Danese, S. (2019). Psychological characteristics of inflammatory bowel disease patients: a comparison between active and nonactive patients. Inflammatory bowel diseases, 25(8), 1399-1407.
• Leone, D., Borghi, L., Del Negro, S., Becattini, C., Chelo, E., Costa, M., … Vegni, E. (2018). Doctor–couple communication during assisted reproductive technology visits. Human Reproduction, 33(5), 877–886.