AGMD Digestive Motility Symposium

Friday–Sunday • July 24–26, 2009

DoubleTree Bedford Glen Hotel
Bedford, MA

Faculty & Planning Committee

Co-chairs

Alex Flores, MD, Chief, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition; Director Neurodigestive Center, Floating Hospital for Children, at Tufts New England Medical Center, Boston Mass.; Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass.

Anthony Lembo, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Mass.; Director GI Motility Lab, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Mass.

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Faculty

Janet Brown, Parent of child who had intestinal bowel obstruction
Bruno Chumpitazi, MD, MPH, Director, Neurogastroenterology and Motility Center, Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, Tex.
Mary-Angela DeGrazia-DiTucci, President/ Patient/Founder of the Association of Gastrointestinal Motility Disorders, Inc. (AGMD), Bedford, Mass.
Terry Elia-Shaoul, Trustee of the Association of Gastrointestinal Motility Disorders and IBS patient
Alex Flores, MD, Chief, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition; Director Neurodigestive Center, Floating Hospital for Children, at Tufts New England Medical Center, Boston Mass.; Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass.
Christine Gangi, RN, Clinical Coordinator, Pediatric Coordinator, Neurodigestive Center, Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center Boston, Mass.
Allen Goldstein, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School; Pediatric Surgeon, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass.
Albena Halpert, MD, Assistant Professor in Medicine, Section of Gastroenterology, Boston University, Boston, Mass.
Thomas Jaksic, MD, PhD, Surgical Director, Center for Advanced Intestinal Rehabilitation; Senior Associate in Surgery, Vice-Chair of Pediatric Surgery, Children’s Hospital, Boston, Mass.
Joanne Keaveney, MS, RD, LD, Assistant Professor of Nutrition, Emerson College, Boston, Mass.; Nutrition Consultant and Lecturer for: Fitcorp, Inc., Gillette, Boston, Mass., Grove Manor, Braintree, Massachusetts, LifeCareCenters of America, Boston, Mass.
Mark Korson, MD, Director, Metabolism Service, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Mass.
Braden Kuo, MD, Director of the GI Motility Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass.
Christopher J. Lahr, MD, Associate Professor, Division of General Surgery, The University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Miss.
Anthony Lembo, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Mass.; Director GI Motility Lab, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Mass.
Hiroshi Mashimo, MD, PhD, Chief of Gastroenterology and Director, GI Motility Services and Specialized Procedures, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, Mass.; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.
Nicola Migliacci, Massachusetts Young Adult AGMD Digestive Motility Educational/Support Group Officiator, Marketing Information Coordinator and Senior Associate Event Planner, Association of Gastrointestinal Motility Disorders, Inc. (AGMD), Bedford, Mass.
Samuel Nurko, MD, MPH, Director of the Center for Motility and Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders, Children’s Hospital, Boston, Mass.; Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.
Carol Rees Parrish, MS, RD, Nutrition Support Specialist, University of Virginia Health System, The Digestive Health Center of Excellence, Charlottesville, Va.
Jack Pasquale, MD, Physician Nutrition Specialist, Nutrition and Metabolic Disorders, Fresh Meadows, N.Y.
Marie Petrulavage, Senior Proofreader, Senior Associate Editor, and Assistant Exhibit Coordinator Representative, Association of Gastrointestinal Motility Disorders, Inc. (AGMD), Bedford, Mass.
Matthew Petrulavage, Technical and Creative Media Assistant, Association of Gastrointestinal Motility Disorders, Inc. (AGMD), Bedford, Mass.
Deborah Pfister, MS, RD, CNSD, Director of Nutrition, BioRx/NutriThrive, Cincinnati, Ohio
Mark Pimentel, MD, Director of GI Motility Center Program, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, Calif.
Leonel Rodriquez, MD, Attending Physician, Center for Gastrointestinal Motility and Functional Disorders, Children’s Hospital, Boston, Mass.
Michael Schuffler, MD, Professor of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash.
Edy Soffer, MD, FACG, Co-Director of the GI Motility Laboratory in the Division of Gastroenterology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, Calif.
M. Michael Wolfe, MD, FACG, Professor of Medicine; Research Professor of Physiology and Biophysics; Chief, Section of Gastroenterology, Boston Medical Center, Boston, Mass.

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Planning Committee

Mary-Angela DeGrazia-DiTucci, President/Patient/Founder of the Association of Gastrointestinal Motility Disorders, Inc. (AGMD), Bedford, Mass.
Frank DiTucci, Computer Consultant and Developer for the Association of Gastrointestinal Motility Disorders, Inc. (AGMD), Bedford, Mass., and husband of patient with multiple digestive motility diseases and disorders
Alex Flores, MD, Chief, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition; Director Neurodigestive Center, Floating Hospital for Children, at Tufts New England Medical Center, Boston, Mass.; Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass.
Mary Gambino, RN, PhD, Assistant Dean for Community Affairs, Director of Nursing Continuing Education, University of Kansas School of Nursing, Kansas City, Kan.
Christine Gangi, RN , Clinical Coordinator, Pediatric Coordinator, Neurodigestive Center, Floating Hospital For Children at Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Mass.
Joanne Keaveney, MS, RD, LD , Assistant Professor of Nutrition, Emerson College, Boston, Mass.; Nutrition Consultant and Lecturer for: Fitcorp, Inc., Gillette, Boston, Mass., Grove Manor, Braintree, Mass., LifeCareCenters of America, Boston, Mass.
Anthony Lembo, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Mass.; Director GI Motility Lab, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Mass.
Christina Migliacci, Office Assistant and Associate Exhibit Coordinator Representative, Association of Gastrointestinal Motility Disorder, Inc. (AGMD), Bedford, Mass.
Nicola Migliacci, Massachusetts Young Adult AGMD Digestive Motility Educational/Support Group Officiator, Marketing Information Coordinator and Senior Associate Event Planner, Association of Gastrointestinal Motility Disorders, Inc. (AGMD), Bedford, Mass.
Dorothy Petito, RD, Nutrition Consultant and Associate Coordinator of Project Development and Adult Outreach Program, Association of Gastrointestinal Motility Disorders, Inc. (AGMD), Bedford, Mass.
Marie Petrulavage, Senior Proofreader, Senior Associate Editor, and Assistant Exhibit Coordinator Representative, Association of Gastrointestinal Motility Disorders, Inc. (AGMD), Bedford, Mass.
Deborah Pfister, MS, R.D., C.N.S.D., Director of Nutrition, BioRx/NutriThrive, Cincinnati, Ohio
Kim Sanders , Senior Program Manager and Office Manager, Continuing Education, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kan.