IFFGD - Key Persons
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- Emeritus, Ben - Gurion University of Negev, Beer - Sheva / Italy
Ceciel Rooker, current president of IFFGD, joined this organization in July 2017, bringing with her to the organization over a decade of experience in the field of functional gastrointestinal and motility disorders (FGIMDs). She has worked extensively with patients and their families as well as health professionals to improve FGIMD education and patient care.
Ceciel T. Rooker is the President of IFFGD. Ms. Rooker has a long history of working to advance digestive health issues and a deep understanding of the needs of patients and families affected by functional GI motility disorders. Prior to joining IFFGD in 2017, Ms. Rooker was the Executive Director of the Rome Foundation.
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- Director
- Associate Professor of Medicine
Darren Brenner, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine and Surgery in the Division of Gastroenterology at Northwestern University, Director of the Neurogastromotility, Co-Director of the Integrated Bowel Dysfunction Program, and Director of the Motts Tonelli GI Physiology Laboratory. He is also an active Irene D. Pritzker Research Scholar, Chicago, IL
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- Member of the Officers and Directors Team
- Secretary / Treasurer, Mount Pleasant, SC
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- Research in Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Nacional Autónoma De México ( UNAM )
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- Director
- Senior Vice President ( Retired ), American Gastroenterological Association, Rockville
Nancy Norton is a prominent advocate for the study and treatment of functional gastrointestinal and motility disorders.
Since 1991, she has worked to present the perspective of patients and their needs to the health care community.
On behalf of IFFGD, she organized the biennial International Symposium on Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders, a forum for international experts. Ms. Norton has provided testimony to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives Appropriation Subcommittees on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education.
Nancy Norton served as the DDNC's Chairperson for a number of years. The DDNC actively works to shape health policy through sustained advocacy and outreach, and hosts a two-day public policy forum on Capitol Hill each year.
Office of Research on Women's Health - In March 2006 Nancy Norton was appointed by the NIH Director to a 4-year term on the eighteen member Advisory Committee on Research on Women's Health, the advisory body of the NIH's Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH). The NIH Revitalization Act of 1993 charges the Committee with advising the Director of ORWH on appropriate research activities to be undertaken by the national research institutes with respect to women's health research. Committee members are actively involved in reviewing research priorities, the women's health research portfolio for NIH, and the inclusion of women and minorities in clinical research.
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- Member of the Officers and Directors Team
- FACG, AGAF, FACP, RFF, Vice President, Professor of Gastroenterology & Nutrition Sciences, Chief, Division of Gastroenterology Michigan Medicine