This committee was formed by the Rome Foundation board in 2008 because despite DGBIs being among the most common health conditions in the world, accounting for a high level of health care utilization and patient disability, several reports indicate that the majority of physicians do not apply Rome Diagnostic Criteria in everyday practice as they, or some of them, are not considered easily applicable in a clinical setting outside of epidemiological studies and clinical trials.
Vision of ILC is to enhance worldwide the acceptance and optimal management of patients with DGBI
Mission of ILC is to spread, reinforce, and adapt the RF mission (i.e. To improve the lives of patients with DGBIs ) in different geographical and socio-cultural areas
Aim of ILC is to create a worldwide network of physicians willing to spread, reinforce, and adapt the RF mission in their own geographical area
Members of the ILC
Enrico Stefano Corazziari, MD | Chair
Senior Consultant
Department of Gastroenterology
Clinical Institute Humanitas
Rozzano, Milan, Italy
Dan Dumitrascu, MD, PhD
2nd Medical Department of Internal Medicine
University of Medicine and Pharmacy
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Xiucai Fang, MD
Professor of Medicine
Department of Gastroenterology
Peking Union Medical College Hospital
Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College
Beijing, China
Carlos Francisconi, MD
Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre
Porto Alegre, Brazil
Shin Fukudo, MD, PhD
Department of Behavioral Medicine
Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine
Seiryo Aoba, Japan
Uday C. Ghoshal, MD
Department of Gastroenterology
Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGI)
Lucknow, India
Max J. Schmulson W., MD
Professor of Medicine
Facultad de Medicina
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
Laboratorio de Hígado, Páncreas y Motilidad (HIPAM)
Unidad de Investigación en Medicina Experimental
Mexico City, D.F., Mexico
Ami Sperber, MD, MSPHM
Emeritus Professor of Medicine
Faculty of Health Sciences
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Beer-Sheva, Israel