Rome Foundation Diet & Nutrition Section
Introductory mission and vision statement:
The Rome Foundation Diet and Nutrition Section was established in 2024. The rapid increase in knowledge and widespread acceptance of diet interventions for DGBI has created unmet professional, educational, and research needs for healthcare providers, including physicians, dietitians, and advanced practice providers.
We aim to fulfill the following goals:
- Provide a professional home where healthcare professionals with an interest in the role of diet and nutrition in the pathogenesis and management of DGBI can interact, learn, and collaborate.
- Create a trusted source of evidence-based information.
- A Working Group will be convened every 5-7 years to review and summarize the latest literature, as was recently done in AJG.
- Promote the use of evidence-based diet treatments for DGBI.
- Create and maintain an up-to-date listing of healthcare professionals sortable by specific interest/s, ongoing research, interest in collaboration, and geographic location.
- Provide a link to Rome Foundation Research Institute to promote and conduct cutting-edge research in diet and nutrition.
- Collaborate with national and international organizations to enhance the visibility of HCPs with an interest in diet and nutrition and encourage collaboration.
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Membership:
Full membership will be coming soon! In the meantime, click here if you’d like to join our listserv. You will be part of the growing listserv, which will connect you with like-minded professionals interested in Diet and Nutrition for DGBI.
Benefits of free membership:
Membership will eventually include such perks as discounts on webinars and members-only education content. Join the listserv and you will be notified as benefits are launched.
Chairs
William D. Chey, MD, AGAF, FACG, FACP, RFF
Marvin Pollard Professor
Chief, Division of GI & Hepatology
University of Michigan, US
wchey@umich.edu
Heidi Staudacher, Adv APD, PhD
NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow
Food & Mood Centre, IMPACT Institute
Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
heidi.staudacher@deakin.edu.au
Magnus Simrén, MD, PhD, RFF
Professor, Senior Consultant
Dept of Molecular and Clinical Medicine
Institute of Medicine
Sahlgrenska Academy
University of Gothenburg, Sweden
magnus.simren@medicine.gu.se
Committees
Education & Training
Chair: Dr Caroline Tuck, Adv APD, PhD; Swinburne University, Australia; ctuck@swin.edu.au
Co-Chair: Dr Stine Störsrud, RD PhD; University of Gothenburg, Sweden; stine.storsrud@vgregion.se
Research
Chair: Prof Kevin Whelan, RD PhD; Kings College London, United Kingdom; Kevin.whelan@kcl.ac.uk
Co-chair: Dr Heidi Staudacher, Adv APD, PhD; Deakin University, Australia; heidi.staudacher@deakin.edu.au
Membership & Communications
Chair: Nancee Jaffe, MS RDN; University of California Los Angeles; njaffe@mednet.ucla.edu
Co-chair: Renee Euler, MS RD, LD; reneeeulerrd@gmail.com
If you are interested in joining any of our committees, please contact the relevant committee Chairs.
Team Section Photo
Diet and Nutrition Introductory Slide Deck
A brief introduction to the Diet and Nutrition Section can be found in this presentation, which was used at the launch of the Diet and Nutrition Section at DDW in Washington, D.C., in May 2024.