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
Douglas A. Drossman, MD, RFF | President Emeritus and CEO
President Emeritus & Chief Executive Officer, Rome Foundation
Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Psychiatry
UNC Center for Functional GI and Motility Disorders
University of North Carolina
Center for Education and Practice of Biopsychosocial Patient Care
DrossmanCare and Drossman Gastroenterology
Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Giovanni Barbara, MD, RFF
Professor of Medicine and Gastroenterology
Department of Medical and Surgical Science
University of Bologna
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
Laurie Keefer, PhD, RFF
Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, NY, USA
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
Facultad de Medicina
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
Laboratorio de Hígado, Páncreas y Motilidad (HIPAM)
Unidad de Investigación en Medicina Experimental
Mexico City, D.F., Mexico
Magnus Simrén, MD, PhD, RFF
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
Ami Sperber, MD, MSPH, RFF
Emeritus Professor of Medicine
Faculty of Health Sciences
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Beer-Sheva, Israel
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
John Kellow, MD, FRACP
New South Wales, Australia
2007-2020
Nicholas J. Talley, MD, PhD
Callaghan, Australia
1990-2011
William E. Whitehead, PhD
Chapel Hill, NC, USA
1992-2018
Enrico Corazziari, MD
Rome, Italy
1989-2010
Fernando Azpiroz, MD, PhD
Barcelona, Spain
2008-2017
W. Grant Thompson, MD
Ottowa, Canada
1989-2008
Robin C. Spiller, MD, MSC
Nottingham, England
2000-2014
Michel Delvaux, MD, PhD
Nancy, France
1999-2006