ANMS Research Committee Members
- Shanthi Srinivasan, Chair
- David Levinthal, Co-Chair
- Kirsteen Browning
- Fievos Christofi
- Julia Ganz
- Andrés Gottfried
- David Linden
- Sarah Najjar
- David Reed
- Neha Santucci
- Andrea Shin
The Clinical Practice Committee has a rather open agenda, but deals with clinical issues confronted by physicians who consult with patients who have disorders of motility. The committee has worked with the following issues in the last few years:
- Clinical Testing – There are a variety of clinical tests of motor activity of the gastrointestinal organs. These tests have emerged from research laboratories and many of them have gradually been integrated into clinical practice. Some are well accepted and used in the diagnosis and management of a variety of disorders. Others are less well accepted and their place in clinical practice is less certain. Esophageal manometry has a long history of use in the clinical laboratory, but even this test has never been standardized. The committee developed a process to define minimum standards of practice for a number of clinical motility tests. The American Motility Society worked in collaboration with the European Neurogastroenterology and Motility Society to come to a consensus on standard practices for these motility tests. The various manuscripts are published in the journal of the two societies, Neurogastroenterology and Motility.
- Billing and coding of procedures is a critically important issue for the performance, interpretation and utilization of motility tests in clinical practice. The committee has worked together with the AGA’s Clinical Practice and Practice Economics Committee to improve and increase the number of codes and to increase the relative value units for accepted procedure codes. An article describing the billing and coding issues has been published in The American Journal of Gastroenterology. A column on these issues is published regularly in the newsletter, The Recorder, and on the ANMS website.
- Members of the ANMS have worked with the AGA to develop standards of training in the area of neurogastroenterology and motility. These objectives have been published in the April issue of Gastroenterology.
- The committee is currently working on the issue of quality control of clinical laboratories that perform and analyze clinical tests of motility. The background, training and experience of laboratory directors and technical personnel become important issues in considering quality control. The committee is considering registration and listing of laboratories that regularly conduct clinical tests in order to provide information about the availability of experienced laboratories that perform high quality studies.
The task force will create the structure of the Institute, reach out to interested parties, and run a capital campaign.
- John Pandolfino, Chair
- Lin Chang
- Fievos Christofi
- Purna Kashyap
- Laurie Keefer
- Beverley Greenwood-Van Meerveld, Immediate Past Chair
Communication
The task force will focus on communication, marketing, and social media. We want to make sure that our members can communicate with each other in the most effective way possible and that the ANMS is providing the diverse tools to disseminate information. This includes launching our ANMS app and maintaining an active Twitter feed. The chairs have put together the task forces and welcome feedback as well as volunteers.
- Greg Sayuk, Chair
- Laurie Keefer
- Abraham Khan
- Peter Lu
- Linda Nguyen
- Stefanie Twist
- Miranda van Tilburg
This task force will work to define the curriculum for adult and pediatric neurogastroenterology and motility education within and beyond subspecialty training in gastroenterology. This will include curriculum specifics for the casual learner who intends to practice gastroenterology (Tier 1), the focused learner who may have a neurogastroenterology focus in their gastroenterology career (Tier 2) and the committed trainee who wants to make a career in neurogastroenterology and motility (Tier 3). This task force hopes to collaborate with our Canadian and European counterparts to develop a comprehensive curriculum applicable to training and education in North America, Europe and beyond, within an 18-month timeline. Concurrently, the task force will develop an evaluation tool consisting of multiple choice questions applicable at the point of transition to Tier 2 training.
- C. Prakash Gyawali, Chair
- Baha Moshiree, Co-Chair
- Adriana Lazarescu
- Amit Patel
- Amanda Pressman
- John Rosen
- Miguel Saps
- Miranda van Tilburg
- Maria Vasquez Roque
- Sonia Yoon
The task force will administer our granting mechanisms, including an assessment of our current grants, to make sure we are optimally serving the needs of our members.
- Shanthi Srinivasan, Chair
- David Levinthal, Co-Chair
- Kirsteen Browning
- Fievos Christofi
- Julia Ganz
- Andrés Gottfried
- David Linden
- Sarah Najjar
- David Reed
- Neha Santucci
- Andrea Shin
The task force will focus on organizing our meetings, including the Young Investigator Forum, the clinical course, the FNM (Federation for Neurogastroenterology and Motility) meeting, basic science courses, as well as a variety of other courses that we have been and will continue to be involved in.
- Greg Sayuk, Chair
- Nitin Ahuja
- Brian Gulbransen
- Peter Lu
- Eamonn Quigley
- Rachel Rosen
Membership, Mentoring, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
The task force will focus on creating closer ties with our existing members, increase membership and support mentorship/training across the career span. We will focus heavily on mentorship of trainees and young faculty members as well as strengthening our ties with allied health professionals.
- Katja Karrento, Chair
- Jason Baker
- Fievos Christofi
- Baha Moshiree
- Shreya Raja
- Morgan Sendzischew Shane
- Miranda van Tilburg