To Improve the Lives of People with Functional GI Disorders

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New Rome Translation Project

The Rome Foundation has established a Translation Project to disseminate Rome material, in particular the Rome III diagnostic questionnaire and scoring codes, in as many languages as possible.

Further information on the translation project and on how to access translated material can be found on the Rome Translation Project homepage. These translations are the only ones officially approved by the Rome Foundation.

Recipient of the 2010
Competitive Research Award

Javier Santos Vicente MD, PhD

Recipients of the 2010 Rome
Foundation Fellowship

Aldona Dlugosz, MD
Carlos Hernandez, MD
Emily Tucker, MD

2010 Ray Clouse Prize Winner

Hanneke Beaumont MD, PhD

Rome Foundation introduces
diagnostic algorithms for common Gastrointestinal Symptoms

This new clinical tool is also available in
The American Journal of Gastroenterology
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

The Third Annual Rome Foundation/AGA Institute Lectureship
at Digestive Disease Week 2010

May 4, 2010
New Orleans, Lousiana

Join Rome at UEGW 2010

Rome Foundation Symposium:
Management of difficult patients with
functional GI diseases

October 23-27, 2010
Barcelona, Spain

Rome Working Team Manuscript
on Outcomes in IBS Published

The Rome Outcomes/Endpoints in IBS Working Team has completed its work, exploring the behavior of different outcome measures and endpoints that have been used in large clinical trials for irritable bowel syndrome.

For more information and a link to access the full html version of the manuscript, published in Gastroenterology, December 2009,
click here.

Rome Working Team Manuscript
on Brain Imaging Published

The Rome Brain Imaging Working Team has completed its work, reviewing the current literature and providing recommendations to standardize brain imaging assessments in the functional GI disorders (FGID).

For more information and for free access to both the full html version and .pdf version of the manuscript, published in Neurogastroenterology & Motility,
click here.

Rome Educational Products

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. More information

Rome III released in English in October 2006




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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