Chairs
Dr Caroline Tuck
Dietitian, Researcher & Lecturer
Senior Lecturer, Advanced Accredited Practising Dietitian
Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia
Research interests:
- Dietary therapies for the management of gut disorders
Contact: [email protected]
Associate Professor Stine Störsrud
Clinical Dietitian
Department of medicine, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden
Research interests:
- Dietary interventions
- Food-related GI diseases
- Role of carbohydrates in DGBI
Contact: [email protected]
Committee members
Dr Abdulsalam Ibrahim Aliyu MD, MSc., PhD
Clinical Research Physician/Scientist (Pathophysiology and Pharmacology)
Postdoctoral research fellow – Neurogastroenterology
Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
Research interests:
- Disorders of gut brain interactions
- Pathophysiology of gastrointestinal symptoms and their relationship to diet
- Gastrointestinal responses to food and drugs using MRI
Contact: [email protected]
Associate Professor Jessica Biesiekierski
Registered Nutritionist & Researcher
Head of Human Nutrition
The University of Melbourne, Australia
Research interests:
- Diet
- DGBI
- GI function
- IBS
- Functional dyspepsia
Contact: [email protected]
Dr Ryo Katsumata
Gastroenterologist and Internist/ Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Research interests:
- Symptom triggers in DGBI
- Food-related gastrointestinal symptoms
- Brain-gut interactions
Contact: [email protected]
Karen Routhiaux
Dietitian & Biomedical scientist
PhD researcher
Translational Research Center for Gastrointestinal Disorders (TARGID), KULeuven, Leuven, Belgium
Research interests:
- Dietary interventions
- DGBI
- IBS
- Food-related symptom triggers
- Disturbed eating behavior / ARFID
Contact: [email protected]
Dr Jane Varney
Senior Research Dietitian
Department of Gastroenterology, School of Translational Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Research interests:
- Diet therapies for gastrointestinal disorders and endometriosis
Contact: [email protected]
Bethany Doerfler MS, RDN
Senior Clinical Reseach Dietitian
Digestive Health Institute
Northwestern Medicine, 259 East Erie Suite 1600 Chicago, Il 60611
Research interests:
- Elimination and therapeutic diets
- DGBI
- Motility disorders
- Eosinophilic GI Disorders
Contact: [email protected]
Assistant Professor Prashant Singh, MBBS
Gastroenterologist, Assistant Professor of Medicine
University of Michigan
Research interests:
- Dietary therapies for DGBI
- IBS pathophysiology
- Neurogastroenterology and motility
Contact: [email protected]
Committee Goals
- Create trusted voice – Create a trusted source of the latest evidence based information on DGBI nutrition based information on DGBI nutrition.
- Promote evidence base – Promote the use of evidence-based diet treatments for DGBI through high quality training workshops, educational webinars, and telemedicine case conferences.
- Define core competencies – Define core competencies required for dietitians and other health professionals to identify as experts in DGBI nutrition.
- Increase research use in practice – In collaboration with the Research Committee: increase utilisation of research to inform practice