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INAUGURAL MEETING

NEUROGASTROENTEROLOGY GROUP

25

th

April 2008 at The Skeel Lecture Theatre, People’s Palace, Mile End, QMUL

Programme

09:00 09:50 09:55 10:05 10:20 10:35 10:50 11:15 11:40 12:00 12:30 REGISTRATION AND COFFEE

Introduction

Introduction

Professor Ian Sanderson

Welcome address

Professor Qasim Aziz

History of the Wingate Institute

Professor David Wingate

Visceral sensation

Visceral hyposensation: are we beginning to feel it?

Mr Marc Gladman

Human visceral pain research: heart and soul!

Professor Qasim Aziz

Pain hypersensitivity: lessons from somatic pain

Professor John Priestley

COFFEE

Investigation of gut motility in the 21st century

Integrated and advanced measurement of gastrointestinal function: where do we go from here?

Upper GI tract

Dr Etsuro Yazaki

Lower GI tract

Dr Mark Scott

LUNCH (& POSTER ROUND) 13:45 14:05 14:25 15:00 15:20 15:35 15:50 16:20 16:50 17:05 17:15

GI neuromuscular disease

Neuroimmunological mechanisms: channelling our efforts

Mr Charles Knowles

Histopathologic abnormalities: primary, secondary or imagined

Professor Jo Martin

Getting your nerves back: the future is in stem cells!

Dr Nikhil Thapar

TEA

Managing the difficult patient

Evacuatory difficulty: cant push wont push

Mr Peter Lunniss

Treating the mind not the gut

Dr Gerald Libby

The acidic child

Dr Nick Croft

KEYNOTE LECTURE

Medically unexplained symptoms

Professor Simon Wessely Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London

Closing remarks

The future of neurogastroenterology at QMUL

Professor Qasim Aziz

Vote of thanks

Professor Sir Nicholas Wright

MEETING CLOSE DRINKS AND CANAPÉS 

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Registration details

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