Welcome to the BSG Global Grand Rounds, brought to you by the International Section of the BSG. This webinar series aims to cover the SCE curriculum with speakers from across the globe giving us an international perspective on common gastro- intestinal conditions.

Learning Points

• Thorough history, including past therapies
• Examination, including a rectal examination
• Treatment targeted at the 'contents', 'container', or 'controller'
• Consider re-visiting and optimising previous strategies

About our speakers

Associate Professor Rebecca Burgell, Consultant Gastroenterologist, Alfred Health & Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

A/Prof Rebecca Burgell is a consultant gastroenterologist at Alfred Health and Monash University in Melbourne with an interest in functional gastrointestinal disorders, clinical nutrition, inflammatory bowel disease and pelvic floor dysfunction. She is the Head of the Functional Gastrointestinal disorders service at Alfred Health and medical lead of the Home Enteral Nutrition Program.  

Dr Burgell is passionate about advancing the multi-discipline care of patients with Functional GI disorders and improving our understanding of the contributing factors to symptom generation and impact on quality of life.  

Her research interests include exploring novel models of care for patients with functional bowel disorders, non-invasive neuromodulation techniques, exploring the intraluminal environment in health and disease and the use of intestinal ultrasound in patients with functional bowel disorders. 

Dr Chris Dipper, Consultant Gastroenterologist and Associate Medical Director, The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust

Chris Dipper, Consultant Gastroenterologist and Associate Medical Director working at the Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust. Interests including IBD, functional bowel disorders and endoscopy. I provide gastroenterology input to our monthly regional functional bowel disorder MDT.

Associate Prof Maura Corsetti, Referral Consultant, Nottingham Digestive Diseases Centre

Maura leads the GI Motility Lab and she is the referral consultant for functional disorders of upper and lower GI tract at the Nottingham Digestive Diseases Centre. She obtained her Specialization (2000) and PhD (2004) in Italy, where she worked for eight years as referral consultant for functional bowel disorders in one of the most important university hospitals in Milan, the San Raffaele University Hospital. She then moved to Belgium, where she also spent part of her PhD, to work in the lab of Prof Jan Tack as Senior Research Supervisor (2012-2016). She dedicated her professional carrier to the study of role of gut motility to the pathophysiology of symptoms of functional disorder. She has just been appointed as Co-Chair of the Rome V Functional Bowel Disorders Committee and Editor in Chief of Neurogastroenterology and Motility (official journal of European and American Association of Neurogastroenterology and Motility). She is secretary of the BSG Neurogastroenterology Committee, ESNM representative at the UEG Scientific Committee, and lead the working group on food and drug interaction in the COST Action CA16205 (European Network on Understanding Gastrointestinal Absorption-related Processes).