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 Diseasewith 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
AGA – Rome Annual Lectureship Series
Upcoming Lectureship
Eleventh Annual AGA – Rome Lectureship at DDW 2018
Previous Lectureships
Tenth Annual AGA – Rome Lectureship at DDW 2017
Ninth Annual AGA – Rome Lectureship at DDW 2016
Eighth Annual AGA – Rome Lectureship at DDW 2015
Seventh Annual AGA – Rome Lectureship at DDW 2014
Sixth Annual AGA – Rome Lectureship at DDW 2013
Fifth Annual AGA – Rome Lectureship at DDW 2012
Fourth Annual AGA – Rome Lectureship at DDW 2011
Third Annual AGA – Rome Lectureship at DDW 2010
Second Annual AGA – Rome Lectureship at DDW 2009
First Annual AGA – Rome Lectureship at DDW 2008
