1. NEUROGASTROENTEROLOGY GROUP
INAUGURAL MEETING
NEUROGASTROENTEROLOGY GROUP
25th April 2008 at The Skeel Lecture Theatre, People’s Palace, Mile End, QMUL
Programme
09:00 REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
Introduction
09:50 Introduction
Professor Ian Sanderson
09:55 Welcome address
Professor Qasim Aziz
10:05 History of the Wingate Institute
Professor David Wingate
Visceral sensation
Moderator: Professor Paul Enck & Dr Peter Shortland
10:20 Visceral hyposensation: are we beginning to feel it?
Mr Marc Gladman
10:35 Human visceral pain research: heart and soul!
10:50 Pain hypersensitivity: lessons from somatic pain Professor John Priestley
11:15 COFFEE
Investigation of gut motility in the 21st century
Integrated and advanced measurement of
gastrointestinal function: where do we go from here?
Moderators: Professors Greger Lindberg & Dan Dumitrascu
11:40 Upper GI tract
Dr Etsuro Yazaki
12:00 Lower GI tract
Dr Mark Scott
12:30 LUNCH
(& POSTER ROUND)
GI neuromuscular disease
Moderators: Dr Giovanni Barbara & Dr Virpi Smith
13:45 Neuroimmunological mechanisms: channelling our efforts
Mr Charles Knowles
14:05 Histopathologic abnormalities: primary, secondary or imagined
Professor Jo Martin
14:25 Getting your nerves back: the future is in stem cells!
Dr Nikhil Thapar
15:00 TEA
Managing the difficult patient
Moderators: Professors Jeremy Powell-Tuck & David Rampton
15:20 Evacuatory difficulty: cant push wont push
Mr Peter Lunniss
15:35 Treating the mind not the gut
Dr Gerald Libby
15:50 The acidic child
Dr Nick Croft
KEYNOTE LECTURE
Moderator: Peter White
16:20 Medically unexplained symptoms
Professor Simon Wessely
Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London
Closing remarks
16:50 The future of neurogastroenterology at QMUL
Professor Qasim Aziz
17:05 Vote of thanks
Professor Sir Nicholas Wright
17:15 MEETING CLOSE
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