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Invited Lecturer - Maura Corsetti - 4th December @ 1pm - Wingate Institute

The treatment of chronic constipation: has the study of pathophysiology and mechanism of drugs improved clinical practice.

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INVITATED LECTURER
4 December 2023 @ 1pm
Lunch at 12.30pm

TO BE DELIVERED BY:
Maura Corsetti
Associate Professor in Gastroenterology
NIHR Nottingham Digestive Diseases Biomedical Research Centre (BRC)
Nottingham University
 
TITLE:
The treatment of chronic constipation: has the study of pathophysiology and mechanism of drugs improved clinical practice
 
VENUE:
THE WINGATE INSTITUTE
26 ASHFIELD STREET
LONDON E1 2AJ                                                                                                          
 
BIOGRAPHY:
Maura received her residency (2000) and PhD (2004) in Italy, where she worked for eight years as a reference consultant for functional bowel disorders at one of the most important university hospitals in Milan, San Raffaele University Hospital. She then moved to Belgium, where she also spent part of her PhD, to work in Prof. Jan Tack's laboratory as Senior Research Supervisor (2012-2016).

In 2016, she was appointed Associate Professor of Gastroenterology with Honorary Contract as Consultant Gastroenterologist at NHS. Maura directs the Neurogastroenterology Unit and the GI Motility lab and is a referring consultant for functional disorders of the upper and lower gastrointestinal tract at the Nottingham Digestive Diseases BRC.

She has devoted her professional career to the study of the role of gastro-intestinal (GI) motility in the pathophysiology of symptoms of functional disorders, becoming an internationally recognized expert in GI motility.

She is a member of the Rome Foundation Board of Directors, Co-Chair of the Rome V Committee on Functional Bowel Disorders, and Editor-in-Chief of Neurogastroenterology and Motility (official journal of the European and American Association of Neurogastroenterology and Motility). She is chair of the BSG Neurogastroenterology Committee and ESNM representative to the Scientific Committee and Postgraduate Teaching Course at UEG. 
 
Please respond back to Samantha Pimm (s.j.pimm@qmul.ac.uk) if you are able/not able to attend for catering purposes

Samantha Pimm
PA to Prof Qasim Aziz

 

 

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