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AGA – Rome Lectureship 2012

AGA – Rome Lectureship 2012

The Fifth Annual AGA Institute – Rome Foundation Lectureship at Digestive Disease Week 2012

May 22, 2012
San Diego, CA
The Rome Foundation and the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) were pleased to announce their 5th annual lectureship at Digestive Diseases Week (DDW). The lectureship is designed to address broad aspects of health care that are relevant to digestive diseases and the functional GI disorders.
Learning Objectives:
  • Review the current understanding of the regulation of intestinal permeability in health.
  • Discuss pathophysiologic mechanisms involving intestinal barrier function in functional gastrointestinal disorders.
  • Understand the ways in which altered intestinal barrier function translate into functional GI symptoms.
Agenda
Intestinal Permeability: Does it Explain the Symptoms of Functional GI Disorders?

with Giovanni Barbara, MD
University of Bologna

Regulation of Intestinal Permeability in Health and Disease

with Alessio Fassano, MD
University of Maryland

Esophageal Permeability: Does it Explain the Symptoms of NERD?

with Roy Orlando, MD
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill