Digestive Diseases News
Summer 2006
To stay up-to-date on the Commission’s progress over the next 2 years, check the website at www2.niddk.nih.gov/AboutNIDDK/CommitteesAndWorkingGroups/NCDD/CommissionMeetingInformation.htm.
Commission Begins Work on Research Agenda
Plan Will Guide NIH Digestive Diseases Research Over Next Decade
The National Commission on Digestive Diseases held a kickoff meeting June 12 to begin formulating a plan to guide digestive diseases research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) over the next decade.
The Federally chartered, 16-member panel, which was appointed by and reports directly to NIH Director Elias Zerhouni, M.D., has 2 years to complete the plan, which will be incorporated into a final report developed by Commission working groups.
The Commission also includes 18 non-voting, ex-officio members from the NIH and other Government organizations, including the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Department of Defense. Appointed members represent the academic and research communities as well as
the practice and patient communities.
The NIH agencies that provide significant funding to support digestive diseases research outlined their initiatives for the Commission, including the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities, the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute on Aging, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse. For fiscal year 2005, the NIDDK provided approximately 31 percent of NIH funding for digestive diseases research.
Commission members considered organizing their final report according to the various diseases that affect specific organs of the digestive tract (esophagus, stomach, small bowel, liver, pancreas, colon, and rectum), as well as cross-cutting topics, such as infectious and gastrointestinal diseases and cancer.
In preparing a research agenda, Commission members will review the state-of-the-science in digestive diseases research and identify gaps that need to be filled. “We’re orchestrating the development of goals, not a scientific journal article or an encyclopedia of digestive diseases and everything you need to know about them,” said Stephen P. James, M.D., Commission chairperson and director of the NIDDK’s Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition.
National Commission on Digestive Diseases Appointed Members
Stephen P. James, M.D.
Commission chairperson and director of the NIDDK’s Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition
Chairperson
Stephen P. James, M.D.
Director, Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Appointed Members
Bruce R. Bacon, M.D.
Director, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
St. Louis University School of Medicine
Barbara L. Bass, M.D.
John F. and Carolyn Bookout Chair
Department of Surgery
The Methodist Hospital, Houston
Richard S. Blumberg, M.D.
Chief, Gastroenterology Division
Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston
John M. Carethers, M.D.
Professor of Medicine, Gastroenterology Division Chief
VA San Diego Healthcare System
University of California, San Diego
Maurice A. Cerulli, M.D.
Chief, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
New York Methodist Hospital, Brooklyn
Eugene B. Chang, M.D.
Martin Boyer Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine
University of Chicago
Mitchell B. Cohen, M.D.
Director, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati
Margaret M. Heitkemper, RN, Ph.D.
Chairperson, Department of Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
School of Nursing
University of Washington, Seattle
Jane M. Holt
Co-President
National Pancreas Foundation, Boston
David A. Lieberman, M.D.
Professor and Chief, Division of Gastroenterology
Department of Medicine
Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland
Nancy J. Norton, B.S.
Founder and President
International Foundation for Functional Gastrointestinal
Disorders, Milwaukee
Pankaj J. Pasricha, M.D.
Chief, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas
Daniel K. Podolsky, M.D.
Professor of Medicine and Chief, Gastrointestinal Unit
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
Kenton M. Sanders, Ph.D.
Professor and Chairman, Department of Physiology and Cell Biology
University of Nevada School of Medicine, Reno
Robert S. Sandler, M.D., MPH
Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology
Chief, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Joanne A. P. Wilson, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Division of Gastroenterology
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
[Top]
NIH Publication No. 06–4552
August 2006
|
