National Commission on Digestive Diseases - WORKING GROUP TOPICS AND ROSTERS
Please note that the order of the listing is not an indication of priorities.
- Overview of the Digestive System
Includes development, normal physiology, nutrient and fluid absorption and secretion, digestion, GI endocrinology, control of eating and satiety, mucosal immunology, microbiology, and microbiome.
Chair: Richard Blumberg, MD
Vice Chair: Eugene Chang, MD
Hannah Carey, PhD, University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine, Madison
Nicholas Davidson, MD, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
Marshall Montrose, PhD, University of Cincinnati, Ohio
Chung Owyang, MD, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor
Abigail Salyers, PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ramesh Shivdasani, MD, PhD, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston
Warren Strober, MD, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National
Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
- Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders and Motility Disorders
Includes functional GI disorders including irritable bowel syndrome, gastroparesis, fecal incontinence, visceral pain, Hirschprung's disease, intestinal pseudo-obstruction, constipation, and pelvic floor dysfunction.
Chair: Kenton M. Sanders, PhD
Vice Chair: Nancy J. Norton
Michael Camilleri, MD , Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester , Minnesota
Carlo DiLorenzo, MD , Columbus Children's Hospital, Ohio
Douglas Drossman, MD , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Gerald F. Gebhart, PhD , University of Pittsburgh
Allen Mangel , MD , PhD , Research Triangle Institute, Research Triangle Park , North Carolina
Emeran Mayer, MD , University of California at Los Angeles
Henry P. Parkman, MD , Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia
Jack D. Wood, PhD , Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus
- Infections of the GI Tract
Includes common bacterial and viral infections, bioterrorism, infections of immunocompromised hosts, vaccines, probiotics, and uncommon diseases such as Whipple's [ note : viral hepatitis will be covered by the liver and biliary working group].
Chair: Mitchell B. Cohen, MD
Vice Chair: Richard S. Blumberg, MD
Mary K. Estes, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston
Alessio Fasano, MD, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore
Richard Fedorak, MD, FRCPC, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
James B. Kaper, PhD, University of Maryland, Baltimore
Cynthia Sears, MD, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore
Phillip I. Tarr, MD, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis
- Cancers of the Digestive System
Includes entire GI tract except for liver/biliary. Includes neuroendocrine tumors, pancreatic cancer, and polyp syndromes.
Chair: John Carethers, MD
Vice Chair: Robert Sandler, MD, MPH
C. Richard Boland, MD, Baylor University Medical Center
Raymond DuBois, MD, PhD, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Scott Kern, MD, The Johns Hopkins University Medical Institutions
Juanita Merchant, MD, PhD, University of Michigan
Richard Peek, MD, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Brian Reid, MD, PhD, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Anil Rustgi, MD, University of Pennsylvania
David Whitcomb, MD, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Kenneth Wang, MD, Mayo Clinic
Vincent Yang, MD, PhD, Emory University School of Medicine
- Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
Includes ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease, collagenous and microscopic colitis.
Chair: Daniel K. Podolsky, MD
Vice Chair: Eugene Chang, MD
Brian Feagan, MD, Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada
Jeffrey Gordon, MD, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis
Richard Grand, MD, Children's Hospital, Boston
Jerome I. Rotter, MD, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles
William Sandborn, MD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
R. Balfour Sartor, MD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
William F. Stenson, MD, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis
Stephan Targan, MD, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center; David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California at Los Angeles
- Intestinal Failure and Regeneration, Nutritional Disorders and Support, Surgically Modified Gut, and Transplantation
Includes diseases leading to intestinal failure, oral and parenteral nutrition, obesity, intestinal transplantation, surgically modified GI tract, and manipulation of absorption, nutrition. Excludes liver/biliary.
Chair: Barbara L. Bass, MD
Vice Chair: Margaret M. Heitkemper, PhD, RN
Alan Buchman, MD, MSPH, Northwestern University, Chicago
Jeffrey Matthews, MD, University of Chicago Medical Center
Denise M. Ney, PhD, RD, University of Wisconsin-Madison
William Oh, MD, Women & Infants' Hospital, Providence
Stephen J.D. O'Keefe, MD, University of Pittsburgh Medical College
Malcolm K. Robinson, MD, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston
Robert J. Shulman, MD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston
Debra L. Sudan, MD, University of Nebraska Medical Center
Brad Warner, MD, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
- Diseases of the Oropharynx and Esophagus
Includes GERD, feeding and swallowing disorders, Barrett's esophagus (to be integrated with cancer working group), and eosinophilic esophagitis and other eosinophilic GI disorders.
Chair: P. Jay Pasricha, MD
Vice Chair: David Lieberman, MD
Piero Biancani, PhD , Liver Research Center , Brown Medical School , Providence , Rhode Island
Amitabh Chak, MD , Case Western Reserve University , Cleveland
Glenn Furuta, MD , Harvard University Medical School , Boston
John G. Hunter, MD , Oregon Health & Science University , Portland
Peter Kahrilas, MD , Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine , Chicago
Roy Orlando, MD , Tulane University Medical Center , New Orleans
Nicholas Shaheen, MD, MPH , University of North Carolina Hospitals , Chapel Hill
Reza Shaker , MD , Froedtert Memorial Hospital , Milwaukee
Stuart Spechler, MD , Dallas VA Medical Center
- Diseases of the Stomach and Small Bowel
Includes diseases of the stomach and small bowel, including H. pylori , acid-peptic diseases, autoimmune, celiac disease, ischemic conditions, enzymatic deficiencies, transport defects.
Chair: Eugene Chang, MD
Vice Chair: Maurice Cerulli, MD
Mark Donowitz, MD, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
John S. Fordtran, MD, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Peter H.R. Green, MD, Columbia University, College of Physicians & Surgeons
Martin F. Kagnoff, MD, University of California, San Diego
Loren A. Laine, MD, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Juanita L. Merchant, MD, PhD, University of Michigan
Richard M. Peek, Jr., MD, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Eric Sibley, MD, PhD, Stanford University School of Medicine
W. Allan Walker, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital for Children, Harvard Medical School
Ernest M. Wright, DSc, PhD, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles
- Diseases of the Colon and Rectum
Includes diverticular disease, ischemic colitis, hemorrhoid, anorectal diseases such as solitary rectal ulcers and radiation proctitis (preneoplastic to be integrated with cancer working group).
Chair: Joanne A. P. Wilson, MD
Vice Chair: Nancy J. Norton
Lawrence J. Brandt, MD , Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx
Lawrence Samuel Friedman, MD , Massachusetts General Hospital, Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Newton Lower Falls, Massachusetts
Matthew B. Grisham, PhD , Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center , Shreveport
J. Thomas Lamont. MD , Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center ; Harvard Medical School , Boston
Ann Lowry, MD, FACS , University of Minnesota Medical School , Minneapolis
Jeffrey Matthews, MD , University of Chicago Medical Center
- Diseases of the Pancreas (not diabetes)
Includes acute and chronic pancreatitis, endocrine syndromes (excluding diabetes), cystic fibrosis, cystic lesions (including cystic neoplasms).
Chair: Jane M. Holt
Vice Chair: P. Jay Pasricha, MD
Peter A. Banks, MD, Harvard Medical School, Center for Pancreatic Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston
Suresh T. Chari, MD, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota
Peter Durie, MD, FRCPC, University of Toronto, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Fred S. Gorelick, MD, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven
Robert H. Hawes, MD, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston
Richard A. Kozarek, MD, FASGE, University of Washington School of Medicine, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle
Albert Lowenfels, MD, New York Medical College, Valhalla
Michael G. Sarr, MD, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota
Ashok K. Saluja, PhD, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis
David Whitcomb, MD, PhD, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
- Diseases of the Liver and Biliary System
( Note: integrate with Action Plan for Liver Disease Research )
Chair: Bruce Bacon, MD
Vice Chair: Maurice Cerulli, MD
Montgomery Bissell, MD, University of California at San Francisco
Gregory Gores, MD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
Ronald Sokol, MD, University of Colorado School of Medicine & Children's Hospital, Denver
Gyongyi Szabo, MD, PhD, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester
David Thomas, MD, MPH, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore
John Vierling, MD, FACP, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston
- Multi-Organ Diseases and Diseases of Abdominal Structures
Includes diseases of abdominal structures: mesentery, omentum abdominal wall, retroperitoneal fibrosis. Also includes scleroderma, sarcoidosis, hemochromatosis, and metabolic diseases such as amyloidosis.
Important Note: Working Group 12 was planned to cover areas that initially seemed beyond the scope of the other groups. As the other Working Groups have worked through the content of their assigned areas, it has become clear that areas assigned to Working Group 12 are being appropriately addressed by other groups. Therefore, the Commission members have voted to discontinue this group and have the topics absorbed by other groups, such as 2, 7, 9, 11, and 13. This change in no way lessens the importance of these topics, nor will it affect the current numbering of the Working Groups (i.e., Bioengineering, Biotechnology, and Imaging will remain Working Group 13).
- Bioengineering, Biotechnology, and Imaging
Includes endoscopic technologies, surgical technologies, imaging technology, bioartificial support devices and artificial tissues, electrical pacing/stimulators, diagnostic devices.
Chair: Barbara L. Bass, MD
Vice Chair: David A. Lieberman, MD
Stephen F. Badylak, DVM, PhD, MD, University of Pittsburgh
Yuman Fong, MD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York
Blair S. Lewis, MD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York
King C. Li, MD, FRCP(C), The Methodist Hospital, Houston
Norman S. Nishioka, MD, Harvard Medical School, Boston
Stuart Sherman, MD, Indiana University Medical Center, Indianapolis
Lee Swanstrom, MD, Oregon Health and Sciences University, Portland
Page last updated: March 24, 2010
