Medical Centers specializing in IBS

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Medical Centers

USA

The UNC Center for Functional GI & Motility Disorders:

Established in 1994 by its Co-Directors -- Douglas A. Drossman, MD and William E. Whitehead, PhD -- as a center of excellence within the Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Within ten years, the UNC Center has evolved into a multidisciplinary patient care, research, training, and public education initiative with an annual budget of $1.8 million and a base of 32 faculty, investigators and staff, in addition to visiting and collaborating scholars.

News: UNC Receives NIH Grant

Five-Year NIH Grant on Mind-Body Interactions and Health
September 2004

Chapel Hill, NC - The UNC Center for Functional GI & Motility Disorders has been awarded a five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to foster interdisciplinary research on the interactions among the mind and body in health and disease. The Center will receive a total of $4.3 million over a five-year period to establish a Gastrointestinal Biopsychosocial Research Center focused on the causes and treatment of functional gastrointestinal (GI) disorders.

http://www.med.unc.edu/wrkunits/2depts/ ... elcome.htm



UCLA/CURE Neuroenteric Disease Program

Past:
The new Center has evolved from existing research programs at UCLA and at the Greater Los Angeles VA Healthcare System (GLAVAHS), in particular the CURE: Digestive Diseases Research Center, the UCLA/CURE Neuroenteric Disease Program under Dr. Emeran Mayer, and the Brain Gut Research Program under Y. Taché. Drs. Mayer and Taché are the P.I. and co-P.I. of the new center grant.

Present:
The core of CNS/WH is the newly funded NIDDK P50 SCOR Center grant "Women's Health and Functional Visceral Disorders Center." The new center which closely links investigators based at UCLA and the VAGLAHS, is the only NIH-funded center in the area of brain-visceral interactions and the first DK Women's Center. It focuses on research into the bi-directional mechanisms by which the central nervous system and the viscera interact in health and disease. A particular focus is on the neurobiological mechanisms by which stress modulates these brain-visceral interactions, on mind/brain/body interactions and on !!!!!!!!!-based differences in this modulation.

The grant has significant implications for a better understanding of such common gastrointestinal disorders as irritable bowel syndrome, Functional dyspepsia and common urological disorders such as irritable bladder syndrome ("interstitial cystitis"). In addition, a major research focus is on neurobiological mechanisms underlying the greater vulnerability of women to develop some of these disorders.

The center grant involves investigators and consultants from four different institutions: UCLA, VAGLAHS, Ohio State University and University of Pittsburgh who are interacting closely to accomplish the principal goals of the proposed studies.


http://www.ibs.med.ucla.edu/



The Cleveland Clinic: Gastroenterology and Hepatology:

(Best Hospitals 2004: U.S.News & World Report names The Cleveland Clinic one of the nation's top four hospitals in its annual "America's Best Hospitals" survey.)

The Center for Gastrointestinal Motility Disorders diagnoses and treats patients with motor abnormalities of the stomach, small intestine and large intestine (colon). Some of these problems are among the most common health concerns. It’s estimated that constipation affects up to 10 million Americans, while approximately 20 million Americans suffer from the opposite problem, fecal incontinence.

The center provides the latest and most comprehensive diagnostic and treatment options for bowel incontinence. Diagnostic tests available include several types of manometric techniques, electrical recording from the stomach and nerve conduction tests. If necessary, additional tests are provided by the Radiology and Nuclear Medicine Departments.

Patients seen at the center are offered medical therapy and biofeedback training exercises, or surgical treatment in the departments of general surgery or colorectal surgery.

In addition to patient care, our staff participates in patient and medical education and clinical research. When appropriate, patients can participate in new treatment trials conducted at the Cleveland Clinic.
overview

Departments & Services

Written Information from the Cleveland Clinic


http://www.clevelandclinic.org/gastro/



Mayo Clinic

Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Mayo Clinic specializes in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the digestive tract and liver. It is the largest practice of its kind in the United States. In any given year, members of the Division perform approximately 30,000 minimally invasive, endoscopic procedures in state-of-the-art facilities.

Through a divisional infrastructure organized around interest groups oriented toward disease processes, organ systems, procedures or patient groups, clinical expertise is integrated with the newest forms of established and experimental diagnostic and therapeutic methods. Outpatients and patients in the hospital are cared for by teams of physicians and allied health personnel with broad expertise in all forms of gastroenterological and hepatobiliary diseases.

Because of our recognition that high-quality care depends upon scientific discovery, major research programs at the basic, applied, and translational levels exist to generate new knowledge that ultimately benefits patients.

Mayo Clinic IBS


http://www.mayoclinic.com/invoke.cfm?id=DS00106


THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY

Gastroenterology and Hepatology

IBS Information

http://hopkins-gi.nts.jhu.edu/pages/lat ... &lang_id=1

[NancyCat]

Dr Albena Halpert at Boston Medical Center, phone 617-638-7440 is an expert in IBS. She is a gastro who recently spent 2 yrs at UNC.

[falcon]

Thanks for posting that Nancy. :)

[Guest]

She is a very nice compassionate person in addition to being an IBS expert. She was able to give me answers to questions I have been asking DR's for years and she didnt look at me like I had 12 heads either. Some of my IBS issues are better now even though nothing much has really changed cause I "understand" what is/is not happening and why :)

[NancyCat]

guest above was me. I apparently forgot to login.

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Arizona
Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, Dr. Kenneth Olden, appears to be missing in action?

California
California Pacific Medical Center, Dr. William J. Snape,
http://www.cpmc.org/services/gi/motility.html
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Dr. Mark Pimentel, http://www.csmc.edu/2572.html

Illinois
Northwestern University, Dr. Peter Kahrilas,
http://www.medicine.northwestern.edu/di ... nterology/

Iowa
University of Iowa, Dr. Satish Rao,
http://www.uihealthcare.com/infofor/pro ... 6gi.html#j

Kansas
University of Kansas, Dr. Richard W. McCallum, no website?

Maryland
John Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, is anyone running it now?,
http://www.jhbmc.jhu.edu/Motil/index.html

Michigan
University of Michigan, Dr. William Hasler,
http://www2.med.umich.edu/departments/g ... 20Medicine

Mississippi
University of Mississippi, Dr. Thomas Abell,
http://medicine.umc.edu/Divisions/Profi ... y.php?ID=0

New Hampshire
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Dr. Brian Lacy,
http://www.dhmc.org/webpage.cfm?site_id ... m_id=19313

North Carolina
Wake Forest University, Dr. Ken Koch,
http://www1.wfubmc.edu/gastro/faculty/koch.htm

Ohio
Cleveland Clinic, supposed to be Dr. Joel E. Richter, where did he
go?, no website?

Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania State - Hershey Medical Center, Dr. Ann Ouyang,
http://www.hmc.psu.edu/gi/services/motility.htm
Temple University Hospital, Dr. Henry Parkman,
http://www.temple.edu/gisection/refmd.html

South Carolina
Complete Colon Care, Dr. Christopher Lahr, http://www.constipation.net/

[falcon]

Thanks for posting those Flux. :)

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Portland Digestive Disease Research Center is dedicated to providing a complete range of diagnostic and therapeutic support in Digestive Disease.

http://www.westhillsgiresearch.com/index.htm

[KarenKaplan]

What about UCLA and St Johns Los Angeles
KAren

[falcon]

Karen, ucla is up top, I am not familar with St Johns Los Angeles
though if you can post the doc and the hospital. Thanks

Some of these also are TOP research centers as opposed just to hospitals.

[indyainfo]

i think these information will going to help a lot to everyone

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