Blogs
Remembering Paul Hyman, MD
It is with great sadness that I share with you on behalf of the Rome Foundation the passing of Paul Hyman MD. Dr. Hyman was one of the first pediatric gastroenterologists, and a pioneer in the field of functional pediatric GI disorders. Throughout his lifetime he has...
Effects of Face Masks on Empathy and Relational Continuity
In a recent article, researchers showed that wearing a face mask while consulting with patients results in a negative impact on the patient's perceived empathy and diminishes the positive effects of relational continuity. Read the study here. The Rome Foundation, in...
Chronic Pediatric Pain in JAMA Pediatrics
Rome Board Member, Samuel Nurko, MD, MPH recently published an article entitled The Golden Half Hour in Chronic Pediatric Pain - Feedback as the First Intervention with Neil L. Schechter, MD and Rachael Coakley, PhD in the JAMA Pediatric (Journal of American the...
Charles Gerson Lectureship at Mt. Sinai NYC Gastroenterology Grand Rounds presented by Dr. Drossman: Patients with Severe Abdominal Pain, Feb. 28, 2020
The Charles Gerson Memorial Lecture at the Icahn School of Medicine Mt. Sinai, New York City presented by Dr. Douglas Drossman, President Emeritus & Chief Operating Officer of the Rome Foundation. This lecture incorporates the use of video to demonstrate the...
Effects of Trauma and Abuse on the Brain: Before and After Treatment
By Douglas Drossman, MD Content Warning: physical and sexual abuse, trauma Back in the 1980s, a patient came to me, a 12-year-old girl, who would inspire my research and ultimately change the way we understand the link between pain and trauma. Like many of my GI...
Facebook Question & Answer Page Now LIVE on the Rome Foundation Website
What We Do The Rome Foundation is committed to spreading information regarding Disorders of Gut-Brain Interaction and one of the ways we’ve found to do that is our almost weekly Q & A videos on Facebook. Over the past, 2 years Douglas A. Drossman MD and...
Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) for the Treatment of Irritable Bowel Syndrome
William D. Chey, MD - Michigan Medicine Jordan Shapiro, MD - Baylor Houston Jill Deutsch, MD - Yale University For patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), symptom management is often a marathon, not a sprint. Although IBS is one of the most common indications...
Disorders of gut-brain interaction in pediatrics: A few observations
Samuel Nurko MD MPH Director Center for Motility and Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders Boston Children’s Hospital Professor of Pediatrics. Harvard Medical School Disorders of gut-brain interaction (DGBI) are common in the pediatric population. DGBIs are also known...
Gastrointestinal Symptoms Can Be Manifestations of COVID-19
By Max J. Schmulson, MD Although fever, cough, fatigue and shortness of breath are the most common symptoms of the novel COVID-19 pandemic, up to 40% of patients can manifest gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms during this viral illness. In order of frequency, the GI...
Stress, Chronic Stress and IBS
Lin Chang, MD, Professor of Medicine, Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology of Stress April is IBS Awareness Month. IBS, or irritable bowel syndrome, is one of the most common gastrointestinal (GI) conditions diagnosed in primary care and gastroenterology practices....
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Gaining Resilience through Transitions [GRitT]: Optimism, Gratitude and Self-compassion in a time of uncertainty
Laurie Keefer, PhD Rome Board of Directors GI Health Psychologist Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY As if we all weren’t trying our best to limit the role that patient care and the...
Post Infection Irritable Bowel Syndrome (PI-IBS)
Max J. Schmulson, MD, Professor of Medicine, Mexico City, D.F., Mexico Clinicians practicing in Mexico can attest to an interesting phenomenon: seeing patients with Post Infection IBS (PI-IBS) is uncommon, despite perhaps an even higher prevalence of IBS than in the...
