Committee members
Associate Professor Heidi Staudacher
Accredited Practising Dietitian Diet, Gut and Brain Group, Department of Medicine, Monash University, Australia
Research interests:
- Diets and supplements for DGBI
- Dietary trial design and methodology in DGBI
Contact: [email protected]
Professor Kevin Whelan
Dietitian
Nutritional Sciences, Kings College London
Research interests:
- Dietary Fibre
- Probiotics & prebiotics
- FODMAPS and food additives in DGBI and IBD
Contact: [email protected]
Chairs
Dr Dipesh H Vasant
Gastroenterologist
Neurogastroenterology Unit, Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester University, NHS Foundation Trust, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Research interests:
- Influence of sociocultural, biopsychosocial factors and dietary patterns on the epidemiology of DGBI
- Novel methods of upscaling and delivering integrated multidisciplinary DGBI care including brain-gut behavioural therapies
Contact: [email protected]
Dr Sanna Nybacka
Post Doctoral Research Fellow, Clinical dietitian
Department of Life Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology, and Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Research interests:
- Dietary interventions
- Nutrition epidemiology
- Dietary assessment
Contact: [email protected]
Assistant Professor Chloe Melchior
Gastroenterologist
Department of Gastroenterology, Univ Rouen Normandie, INSERM, Normandie Univ, ADEN UMR1073, Nutrition, Inflammation and microbiota-gut-brain axis, CHU Rouen, CIC-CRB 1404, France
Research interests:
- Association of eating disorders (including ARFID) and IBS
- Impact of low FODMAP diet in IBS pathophysiology
- Role of microbiota and metabolites in IBS
- Role of fructose malabsorption in IBS
Contact: [email protected]
Dr Madison Simons
Gastrointestinal psychologist
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, United States of America
Research interests:
- Precipitants and consequences of dietary modification
- Food-related anxiety
- Glycaemic variability and diet
Contact: [email protected]
Dr Giada De Palma
Assistant Professor
Farncombe Family Digestive Health Research Institute, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Canada
Research interests:
- Diet-gut microbiome interactions in IBS
- Translational research in DGBI
- Animal models
- Gut microbiome analysis
Contact: [email protected]
Dr Georgina Williams
Accredited Practising Dietitian, Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Immune Health Research Program, Hunter Medical Research Institute, Centre of Research Excellence in Transforming Gut Health, University of Newcastle, Australia
Research interests:
- Diet-microbiome assessment methods
- Diet-microbiome interactions in DGBI and Crohns disease
- Diet-immune interactions in DGBI
Contact: [email protected]