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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 REGISTRATION AND COFFEE

Introduction

Introduction

Professor Ian Sanderson

Welcome address

Professor Qasim Aziz

History of neurogastroenterology at the Wingate Institute

Professor David Wingate

Visceral sensation Moderator: Professor Paul Enck and Dr Peter Shortland

10:20 10:35 10:50

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

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: Professor Greger Lindberg Professor D 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 and Dr Virpi Smith

13:45 14:05 14:25

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

15:00 15:20 TEA

Managing the difficult patient Moderators: Professor Jeremy Powell-Tuck and Professor David Rampton

15:35 15:50

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 Moderator: Peter White

16:20

Medically unexplained symptoms

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

16:50 17:05 17:15

Closing remarks

The future of neurogastroenterology at QMUL

Professor Qasim Aziz

Vote of thanks

Professor Sir Nicholas Wright

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