2025 ANMS Meeting

Early Bird Registration: fee discount if registered by May 19, 2025
Abstract Deadline:  April 7, 2025 (by midnight EST)
Travel Award Deadline: May 19, 2025
Hotel Reservation Deadline: July 16, 2025

Yoga Class, Saturday, August 7 from 6:30-7:30 am (check box on registration form to join – limited to 20 and yoga mat included)

Join us for a soothing and revitalizing yoga class designed to support digestive health. This class integrates gentle postures, mindful breathing, and deep relaxation techniques to help address common digestive challenges, including constipation and diarrhea. Through targeted movements, you’ll stimulate and massage the abdominal organs, promoting better digestion and reducing discomfort. Breathing practices are carefully selected to calm the nervous system, regulate digestion, and enhance overall gut health. The session concludes with a guided relaxation and yoga nidra.

Whether you’re looking to improve digestion, learn new strategies for your patients, or simply relax and restore, this class offers techniques to support your journey to optimal digestive wellness. This class will be taught by Amy Wheeler, PhD, an internationally recognized yoga therapist who is the Chair of Yoga Therapy and Ayurveda at Notre Dame of Maryland University. Dr. Wheeler is also a collaborator on the ANMS Diversity Development project “Adaptation of the Yoga Skills Training for Relief of Nausea and Vomiting in Patients with Functional Dyspepsia and Gastroparesis” with PI Dr. Elyse Thakur.

On behalf of the American Neurogastroenterology and Motility Society and the ANMS Institute, we are proud to host our 2025 ANMS Annual Meeting to be held August 8-10, 2025 at the Hyatt Hotel in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

This year we will host the following:

Clinical Course:  Effective Strategies for Managing Neurogastroenterology and Motility Disorders
Enteric Nervous System Satellite (ENS)
Scientific Program: Advancing patient care through cutting edge research
Young Investigator’s Forum – starting Wednesday, August 6 with dinner and all day Thursday, August 7
Advanced Fellows Program – Thursday, August 7
Women in Neurogastroenterology & Motility Session
Poster Sessions
Healthcare Disparities Symposium
Hands-On Neurogastroenterology & Motility Allied Health Event with silent auction, all participants invited
Yoga Class
Product Theaters

• ANMS Lifetime Achievement Award
• How I do It – Esophageal and Anorectal
• Focus on the EGJ
• Getting by With a Little Help From My Friends: Multidisciplinary Care
• Navigating Non-GI Issues in Patients With GI Symptoms
• The Electric Gut: From head to toe
• Lunch Symposium
• Women in Neurogastroenterology & Motility Session

• • • Understanding conditions of enteric neurogenesis to harness its power as a treatment for GI disease
    • Challenges and opportunities for understanding cellular diversity and connectivity in the ENS with single cell technologies
    • Are mucosal glia a viable target to improve gut health?
    • Enteroendocrine cells as druggable targets to modulate gut motility and pain
    • Oral and Poster scientific presentations from top ranked abstracts on cutting-edge research

Each of these topics focuses on potential translational avenues that should be interesting For example, the session on neurogenesis focuses on understanding the conditions of neurogenesis so that it’s power can be harnessed to improve gut health in conditions such as necrotizing enterocolitis, gastroparesis, and IBD. The single cell technology session focuses on how to best use these technologies to guide therapeutic strategies that might identify novel cell-specific targets, pathways, and interactions that contribute to gut dysfunction in IBS, IBD, and other DGBI. The mucosal glia session also has translational relevance to both IBS and IBD to understand mechanisms by which glia contribute to altered immune responses and barrier dysfunction in these conditions. Finally, the enteroendocrine cell session focusing on how enteroendocrine cells could be druggable targets to modulate gut motility and pain, which are relevant to IBS, IBD, constipation, and DGBI.

• ANMS Dodds/Sarna Lecture
• Distinguished Scientist Award for Women in Neurogastroenterology
• Distinguished lectures from giants in the field of Neurogastroenterology & Motility
• State-of-the-art lectures on hot topics in Neurogastroenterology & Motility
• From Micro to Macro: Technological innovations in neurogastroenterology
• Gut Feelings: The science of gut–brain interaction
• Cellular Communication in Gut Motor Function
• From Neurons to Networks: Advances in neurodevelopmental research
• Aging, Neurodegeneration, and Regenerative Therapies
• Sleep, Sleep Disruption, and Neurogastroenterology
• Visceral Pain and Quantitative Sensory Testing
• Symposium on Health Care Disparities
• Oral and Poster scientific presentations from top ranked abstracts on cutting-edge research

The goal of the session is to create a network of women pursuing a career in Neurogastroenterology and Motility (NGM) and develop programs to overcome systemic barriers, capture new opportunities and grow leadership skills. This year, we are focusing case-based presentations and discussions (having children during training and working; mentorship, etc) . This talk will be followed with a panel discussion with women investigators and clinicians in NGM.

Adult • Pediatric •  light refreshments • Silent Auction
An interactive, hands-on session with experts for Allied Health (PA, NP, Nurse, Techs, and physicians) who will demonstrate equipment functionality. Vendors will display anorectal and esophageal manometry, alpHaONE , and pH impedance among just a few to name. Each vendor will pose 3 to 5 equipment-related questions. A raffle will be held and a prize will be awarded to the entry with the highest number of correct answers.

A limited number of Travel Awards (Apply by May 19, 2025 to be considered) are available for registrants that qualify. Eligibility is noted on the registration form. (A new window will open for the Travel Award application on the Registration Form).
Travel Award for Clinical Course Eligibility: trainees, graduate students, post-docs or junior faculty up to 3 years after last degree or completion of training (e.g. Graduation from GI fellowship)- made the time frame a little longer (from 2 to 3 yrs post training).
Travel Award for Scientific Meeting Eligibility: trainees, graduate students and post-docs who submit an abstract to the meeting.

This course is intended to increase participants’ knowledge of how to provide excellent clinical care and apply innovative approaches in the clinical management of motility and neurogastroenterology disorders. This meeting will provide attendees with an enhanced competency of the underlying mechanisms that govern common gastrointestinal motility disorders and disorders of gut-brain interaction and will provide a framework for developing a multidisciplinary plan for optimal diagnosis and treatment.  Discussions will encompass the relevant pathophysiology of these disorders as well as new findings from cutting-edge research in order to clarify matters of ongoing debate in the motility community and to improve knowledge of how application of emergent clinical innovations may influence patient outcomes. Through case-based presentations as well as a review of consensus opinions and available national/ANMS practice guidelines, attendees will gain greater confidence in areas including GERD, globus, gastroparesis, irritable bowel syndrome, dietary therapies, behavioral health, and innovative diagnostics and therapeutics.

This program is intended for gastroenterologists in academic and clinical practice, gastroenterology fellows, nurses and nurse practitioners, physician assistants, dieticians, psychologists, technicians and medical assistants involved in adult and pediatric gastrointestinal motility testing, research, patient care, drug/device development, and other relevant stakeholders in the field of neurogastroenterology and motility.

The Enteric Nervous System (ENS) Satellite will be the first meeting of its kind offered by the ANMS and is intended to serve the goal of bringing together experts in neurogastroenterology to discuss hot topics, find common ground where data are conflicting, and foster a strong basic science community. Topics at this year’s meeting will focus on harnessing the power of enteric neurogenesis as a potential therapy, using single cell technologies to identify novel mechanisms of disease and therapeutic targets, understanding how glia contribute to abnormal gut barrier function and immune activity in disease, and how enteroendocrine cells could be used as druggable targets to manipulate gut motor activity and pain. The meeting format will include short talks by experts presenting various views of each topic followed by ample time for group discussion.

The field of enteric neuroscience is undergoing a renaissance with the availability of new technologies that have unlocked a deeper understanding of specific cells in the gut. The opportunity to use this new knowledge to manipulate gut functions and improve common disease has never been greater. However, the field is a at a critical juncture where progress is limited by a lack of appropriate venues where experts in enteric neurobiology gather for a focused discussion. The ENS Symposium sponsored by the ANMS fills this need. The concept is that by bringing together experts in enteric neuroscience, this will facilitate progress in the field, identify the most promising directions for future work, and foster a collegial scientific community that will work together toward solving difficult problems in gastroenterology.

The scientific meeting will address many cutting-edge research areas which range from basic aspects of neurogastroenterology, translational and clinical aspects of gastrointestinal motility and brain-gut disorders. Topics will include the mechanisms of visceral pain, genetic and epigenetic approaches, role of the gut microbiota, food sensitivities and intolerances, patient reported outcomes and biomedical informatics. Disease areas that will be discussed include including esophageal disorders, functional dyspepsia, gastroparesis, irritable bowel syndrome, chronic constipation, and fecal incontinence.  In addition, participants will learn more about current and novel therapeutic approaches for these conditions.

This meeting provides a forum for research scientists and clinicians to meet in a multi-disciplinary, interactive and supportive collaborative manner so as to generate new ideas and research applications to move the field of Neurogastroenterology & Motility forward. Invited speakers will present state-of-the-art research that focuses on disease mechanisms, diagnosis, and treatment of pediatric and adult disorders involving abnormalities in gastrointestinal function, sensation, psychosocial aspects, and brain-gut interactions
The conference is designed to provide a forum for the presentation, discussion and debate of translational and clinical research in the area of Neurogastroenterology & Motility, and brain-gut disorders so that physicians and health care professionals diagnosing and managing patients will be able to apply the latest evidence-based approaches to optimize effective patient outcomes.

This meeting is intended for scientists, clinician scientists, gastroenterologists, but also psychiatrists and other clinicians; physicians in training such as gastroenterology fellows, biochemists, molecular and cell biologists, physiologists, neurophysiologists, immunologists, pharmacologists, and behavioral psychologists, doctoral level researchers, and nurses involved in adult and pediatric GI and motility testing and research

We hope you will consider attending the meeting and look forward to seeing you in Minneapolis, Minnesota and sharing in this exciting meeting.

G. Nicholas Verne, MD
President, ANMS

Adil Bharucha
President-Elect, ANMS