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The Seventh Annual Rome Foundation — AGA Institute Lectureship at Digestive Disease Week 2014

May 4, 2014
Chicago, Illinois

Agenda


Central mechanisms of pain
with Irene Tracey, PhD
Oxford Centre for Neuroethics
Oxford, UK
Behavioral interventions for pain management
with Laurie Keefer, PhD
Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois

 
 
 
Centrally-targeted pharmacotherapy for chronic abdominal pain
with Douglas A. Drossman, MD
Center for Biopsychosocial Patient Care and UNC
Chapel Hill, NC








This year at DDW, the Lectureship was featured in the DDW Daily News.


The Rome Foundation and the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) were pleased to announce their 7th annual lectureship at Digestive Diseases Week (DDW). The lectureship is designed to address broad aspects of health care that are relevant to digestive diseases and the functional GI disorders. This year the theme was "Understanding and Treating the Brain's Contribution to Pain".


Learning Objectives:

  • To elucidate the mechanisms within the central nervous system that play a role in chronic somatic and visceral pain.
  • To discuss the behavioral treatment interventions for the management of chronic abdominal pain.
  • To describe the centrally-acting pharmacologic agents that are beneficial in the treatment of chronic abdominal pain.