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Sunday, June 21 2015
The Israeli Neurogastroenterology Group Workshop on:
Felsenstein Medical Research Center (FMRC), Rabin Medical Center, Petach Tikva
WHAT'S IN-BETWEEN DYSPEPSIA AND
HEARTBURN?
Sponsored by the Israeli Gastroenterology Association
Distinguished guests:
Prof. Jan Tack
Prof. Ronnie Fass
Professor of Medicine
Translational Research Center for
Gastrointestinal Disorders (TARGID),
University of Leuven
Professor of Medicine
Director, Division of Gastroenterology
MetroHealth Medical Center
Cleveland, OH
Professor Ronnie Fass is the director of
the Division of Gastroenterology and
Hepatology and head of the Esophageal
and Swallowing Center at the
MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland
Ohio. He is also a tenured professor of
medicine at Case Western Reserve
University. Dr. Fass did his internship and
residency in internal medicine at the
University of Arizona Health Sciences
Center, where he later became a Chief
Resident. He then completed a
fellowship in gastroenterology at the
University of California in Los Angeles
where he focused on GI motility and
functional bowel disorders.
Professor Jan Tack is currently Head of
Clinic in the Department of
Gastroenterology, and Professor in
Internal Medicine at the University of
Leuven, Belgium. He is in charge of the
laboratory for Gastrointestinal Motility in
the Center for Gastroenterological
Research at the University of Leuven. He
graduated summa cum laude in 1987 at
the University of Leuven and specialized
in Internal Medicine and
Gastroenterology at the same institution.
He was a research fellow at the
Department of Physiology at the Ohio
State University, Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A.
Program
Sunday, June 21 2015, the Israeli Neurogastroenterology Group Workshop on:
WHAT'S IN-BETWEEN DYSPEPSIA AND HEARTBURN?
08:00-08:30
00-08:30
08:30-08:45
Coffee & Registration
Chairman: Greetings
Dr. Ram
Dickman
The Israeli Neurogastroenterology Group Website
08:45-09:10
09:15-09:40
09:45-10:10
10:15-10:35
10:35-11:00
11:00-11:25
11:30-11:55
12:00-12:20
12:20-12:40
12:40-12:55
13:00-14:30
14:30
Dr. Eran Halpern, Director General, Rabin Medical Center
Prof. Nadir Arber, Chairman, Israeli Gastroenterological Association
(IGA)
Prof. Yaron Niv, Director, Gastroenterology Division, Rabin Medical
Center
Dr. Dan Carter, Gastroenterology Department, Sheba Medical Center
Prof. Ronnie Fass, Director, Division of Gastroenterology,
MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, OH
Gastroparesis or functional dyspepsia – What is the Prof. Jan Tack, Translational Research Center for Gastrointestinal
right answer?
Disorders (TARGID), University of Leuven, Belgium
Prof. Ronnie Fass, Director, Division of Gastroenterology,
How to treat the unmet needs in GERD
MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, OH
Upper GI tract dysfunction – Role of the microbiom Prof. Udi Ringel, Director, Gastroenterology Unit, Beilinson
Hospital, Rabin Medical Center
Coffee break
Pathogenesis of GERD – what did we learn so far?
Chairman: Treating functional disorders (dyspepsia ,
Dr. Roy
constipation ) – what works where?
Hypersensitivity and hypervigilance: a balancing
Dekel
act
Alternative treatments for upper GIT dysfunctions
– What is the evidence?
Bariatric surgery – How it affects the Upper GIT
function
Coffee break
Chairman: Cases presented to the panel of experts
Dr. Mark
BeerGabel
Closing Remarks and Lunch
Prof. Jan Tack, Translational Research Center for Gastrointestinal
Disorders (TARGID), University of Leuven, Belgium
Prof. Ami Sperber, Faculty of Health Sciences of Ben-Gurion
University of the Negev
Nir Salomon, Director, The Integrative Medicine Unit,
Gastroenterology Department, Sheba Medical Center
Sigal Fishman, Department of Gastroenterology, Ichilov Hospital,
Sourasky Medical Center
A case of LPR – Dr. Ram Dickman
Supragastric belching – Dr. Roy Dekel
Globus – Dr. Yishai Ron
Dyspepsia – Dr. Timna Naftali
Rumination – Dr. Tsili Zangen
Fundoplication in a patient with scleroderma