Rome Foundation Research

Past Research Projects

Psychosocial Correlates of Dyspepsia, Non-cardiac Chest Pain and Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease
Principal Investigators: Francis Creed, PhD

Clinical and physiological characteristics of functional distal esophageal disorders
Principal Investigators: Yehuda Ringel, MD & Charles Burnett, PhD Co-Investigators: Kenneth Jones, PhD, Nicholas Shaheen, MD, William E. Whitehead, PhD, Ray Clouse, MD, Douglas A. Drossman, MD

Validating the Rome Criteria for IBS: Should an Exclusion for Somatization Disorder be Added?
Principal Investigator: Carol North, MD Co-Investigators: Ray E. Clouse, MD, David Alpers, MD

Validation of the Pediatric Rome Criteria for Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders
Principal Investigator: Lynn S. Walker, PhD Co-Investigators: Andree Rasquin-Weber, MD, Arlene Caplan-Dover, PhD

Validation of Rome II Criteria in an Australian population-based study
Investigators: Professor Philip Boyce, Dr. S. Nandurkar, Ms. C. Burke