Diet and Nutrition

How to Start the Conversation Around Diet & DGBI

A Rome Foundation Continuing Medical Education program.

Rome Foundation Diet and Nutrition Webinar: an on-demand and live educational opportunity to discuss how to initiate a conversation with the patient around diet and its role in Disorders of Gut-Brain Interaction (DGBI). The webinar will give both the physician and dietitian perspectives and provide phrases that clinicians can use to address patients' perception of food and when tackling tough patient questions.

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand how DGBI and diet are interconnected

2. Integrate nutrition into medical care plans

3. Formulate responses to common patient questions around diet

4. ​Build a toolbox with conversation points surrounding how to start conversations about diet in patients with a DGBI

Speakers:

Joshua D Novak, MD

Bethany Doerfler, MS, RDN

Diet and Nutrition

Scientific evidence for a central role of food in IBS

This symposium from the newly formed Rome Foundation Diet and Nutrition section provides updates about the scientific evidence that supports the relevance of food in symptom generation in IBS and the use of various dietary interventions in the management of patients with IBS.

The symposium starts with a general overview on the role of food in the pathophysiology with IBS by Rome Foundation Board Member Magnus Simrén, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and continues with two lectures dedicated to the current dietary interventions used to treat symptoms in IBS by Caroline Tuck, Swinburne University, Australia and Stine Störsrud, University of Gothenburg, Sweden; the session ends with a general discussion and Q&A, and after the session attendees will have a better knowledge about the scientific basis for a central role for food in the pathophysiology in IBS, and for use of dietary approaches as part of the clinical management of IBS, and how to communicate this to the patients.

Presented by:
   Magnus Simrén, MD, PhD, RFF
   Carolina Tuck, PhD
   Stine Störsrud, RD, PhD

Diet and Nutrition

Low FODMAP Diet Dilemmas: A Case-based Approach

This symposium will use a case-based approach to provide answers to questions that commonly arise about the low FODMAP diet when used for patients with IBS:

What is basic dietary advice that can be given to an IBS patient, and how well does it work? How long should an IBS patient restrict FODMAPs, and what are the risks of prolonged restriction? How should patients be instructed to reintroduce foods containing FODMAPs? Are there options for patients who want a dietary approach but feel the traditional low FODMAP diet is impractical or too difficult? Does the low FODMAP diet offer benefits in all subgroups of patients with IBS?

Presented by:
William D. Chey, MD, AGAF, FACG, FACP, RFF

Marvin Pollard, Professor of Gastroenterology, Professor of Nutrition Sciences Chief, Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Nancee B. Jaffe, MS, RDN

Lead Dietitian for the UCLA Vatche and Tamar Manoukian Division of Digestive Diseases