Members of the Board
Jan Tack, MD, PhD, RFF | President & Chairman of the Board
Professor of Medicine
Head, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine
Head of Clinic, Department of Gastroenterology
University Hospital KU Leuven
Translational Research Center for Gastrointestinal Disorders (TARGID)
Leuven, Belgium
Laurie Keefer, PhD, RFF | Chief Executive Officer
Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, NY, USA
Magnus Simrén, MD, PhD | Rome Foundation Research Institute Director
Professor of Gastroenterology
University of Gothenburg
Senior Consultant, Department of Internal Medicine
Sahlgrenska University Hospital
Gothenburg, Sweden
Adjunct Professor of Medicine,
University of North Carolina (UNC)
School of Medicine
Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Giovanni Barbara, MD, RFF, FACG
Professor of Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology
Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences
University of Bologna, Italy
Lin Chang, MD, RFF
Professor of Medicine
Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology of Stress
Division of Digestive Diseases
David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, USA
William D. Chey, MD, AGAF, FACG, FACP, RFF
H. Marvin Pollard Professor of Gastroenterology
Professor of Nutrition Sciences
Chief, Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Michigan Medicine
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Xiucai Fang, MD, RFF
Professor of Medicine
Department of Gastroenterology
Peking Union Medical College Hospital
Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College
Beijing, China
Brian E. Lacy, MD, PhD, FACG, RFF
Professor of Medicine & Senior Associate Consultant
Mayo Clinic
Jacksonville, FL, USA
Samuel Nurko, MD, MPH, RFF
Professor of Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School
Center for Motility and Functional Bowel Disorders
Boston Children’s Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Max J. Schmulson W., MD, RFF
Professor of Medicine
Faculty of Medicine
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).
Interim Head, Unit of Research in Experimental Medicine Dr. Ruy Pérez Tamayo (UME), and
Responsible Researcher, Laboratory of Neurogastroenterological Disorders, UME UNAM.
Mexico City, Mexico
Maura Corsetti, MD, PhD, RFF
Clinical Associate Professor in Gastroenterology
University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Madhusudan Grover, MD, AGAF, RFF
Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology|
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
Former Members of the Board
Douglas Drossman, MD, RFF
Chapel Hill, NC, USA
1990-2026
Ami Sperber, MD, MSPH, RFF
Beer-Sheva, Israel
2014-2026
John Kellow, MD, FRACP
New South Wales, Australia
2007-2020
William E. Whitehead, PhD
Chapel Hill, NC, USA
1992-2018
Fernando Azpiroz, MD, PhD
Barcelona, Spain
2008-2017
Robin C. Spiller, MD, MSC
Nottingham, England
2000-2014
Nicholas J. Talley, MD, PhD
Callaghan, Australia
1990-2011
Enrico Corazziari, MD
Rome, Italy
1989-2010
W. Grant Thompson, MD
Ottowa, Canada
1989-2008
Michel Delvaux, MD, PhD
Nancy, France
1999-2006
