Rome Foundation — AGA Institute Communication Skills Workshop

Improving the Medical Interview and the
Physician Patient Relationship with Patients
Having Functional GI Disorders
June 8 – 9, 2012
Chapel Hill, NC

The Rome Foundation, in collaboration with the AGA Institute, is holding a one and ½ day clinical skills workshop to help clinicians enhance their communication skills and optimize their interactions with patients having IBS and other functional GI disorders.

To register for the workshop, click here.

The Fifth Annual Rome Foundation — AGA Institute Lectureship
at Digestive Disease Week 2012

May 22, 2012
San Diego, California

Rome at UEGW 2011

Rome Foundation Symposium:
Management of Difficult Patients with
Functional GI Diseases

October 22 - 26, 2011
Stockholm, Sweden

The Rome Foundation proudly offers a CME Online Broadcast on Functional GI Disorders (FGIDs).

Faculty reports on the latest data coming out of DDW 2011. This multi-speaker program features comprehensive discussions on current data and how this information impacts clinical management decisions in patients with FGIDs. The most recent developments in the management of FGIDs are reviewed.

The Rome Foundation Clinical Algorithms were recently published in Spanish in the Revista de Gastroenterología de México (Mexican Journal of Gastroenterology) in November 2010.

Please see the Mexican Journal Website to access them.

IBS - The Global Perspective

Prevalence, Pathophysiology,
Presentation & Management

The Rome Foundation, in collaboration with the
World Gastroenterology Organisation,
conducted an international conference on
"IBS - The Global Perspective" in Milwaukee, WI
on April 6-7, just prior to the IFFGD IBS symposium.

Full details on the meeting can be found here.

The World Gastroenterology Organisation (WGO)
newsletter (WGN 4-2010) features the "IBS - Global Perspective". To view online or download as pdf, click here.


Become an Associate of
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   - 2011 fall newsletter

Request for Applications for Rome Foundation Research Grant - 2012

Deadline: Closed


2012 Ray Clouse Award for Research Publication in Functional GI & Motility Disorders

Deadline: March 16, 2012

2011 Ray Clouse Award Recipients

Prices reduced by 50% on Rome III and Understanding the Irritable Gut

Rome Foundation introduces diagnostic algorithms for common Gastrointestinal Symptoms. This new clinical tool is also available in The American Journal of Gastroenterology
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Rome III is designed for "one stop" learning. It serves as a valuable resource to general and specialist physicians, mental health professionals, and basic and clinical investigators involved in the study and care of patients with functional GI disorders.

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Rome Computer-Based Learning Program on Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders available now!
See available slides here

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Understanding the Irritable Gut, by W. Grant Thompson, MD.

Available now!

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Rome Foundation copyright policy and licensing fee schedules for translations and usage of these items and products are now available.

Please contact Michele Pickard at mpickard@theromefoundation.org