2009 Rome Foundation Career Development Awards:
Fellowships in Functional GI and Motility Disorders
Aldona Dlugosz, MD
Postgraduate Fellow
Centre for Medical and Surgical Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Karolinska University Hospital
Huddinge, Sweden
Dr. Dlugosz graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at Pomeranian Medical Academy (PAM), Szczecin, Poland in 1987. She began working in the Department Gastroenterology and Internal Medicine PAM in 1988 and was qualified as Specialist in Internal Medicine 1997 and in Gastroenterology in 2004. In 1997, she defended her MD thesis “Immunocytochemical Evaluation of Gastric Mucosal Cathepsin D in Peptic Ulcer”. In 2001, Dr. Dlugosz moved to Sweden and started to work at the Centre for Medical and Surgical Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm. In 2006 she joined the Motility Team and started postgraduate training/PhD program in gastrointestinal motility.
Punit Jhaveri, MD
Fellow, Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition
Johns Hopkins Children’s Center
Baltimore, MD, USA
Dr. Jhaveri first became interested in functional disorders while working with Dr. Darbari at the Johns Hopkins and Kennedy Krieger Institute pediatric GI Motility Center. As a first year postdoctoral fellow, Punit attended the ANMS meeting in Atlanta, which further solidified his interest in the field of dysmotility. As a second year, Punit was awarded the NASPGHAN travel grant to attend the Gut Microbiome course. Thereafter, he was awarded the ANMS Visiting Scholar Grant, where he completed his rotation at the Nationwide Childrens’ Hospital in Columbus, Ohio under Dr. Di Lorenzo and Dr. Mousa. He plans to study functional abdominal pain and orthostatic intolerance in adolescents.
Emidio Scarpellini, MD
Internal Medicine Resident
Department of Internal Medicine
Gemelli Hospital, Rome, Italy
Dr. Scarpellini received his M.D. degree at the Gemelli Hospital School of Medicine in 2004 where he is currently a Internal Medicine resident. He has been Neurogastroenterological fellow at Gasthuisberg University Hospital, Leuven, in the last year, under the guide of Prof J. Tack.