Inflammatory Bowel Diseases - May 2010

To coincide with World Digestive Health Day, APC will host a Public Forum on Monday, June 14th next. The aim of this Forum is to provide an awareness about IBD and provide up-to-date information on living with this condition. The event is being organised by the Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre (APC), in association with Danone, and will take place at 7.30pm in Brookfield Health Sciences Complex, UCC.

The forum will be chaired by Professor Eamon Quigley, Professor of Medicine at UCC and Principal Investigator at the Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre. Professor Quigley will review some new and exciting developments in regard to how very subtle forms of gut inflammation may affect the function of the gut and lead to symptoms such as pain, constipation and diarrhoea. Disorders like irritable bowel syndrome and diverticulosis may well fit into this category and could benefit, as a result, from new treatments.

Other eminent speakers at the Forum will include Professor David Rampton, Professor of Clinical Gastroenterology at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry. In his talk, he willl talk first about how quality of life is measured, and then cover the reasons why it is often impaired in patients with IBD. He will then go on to talk about what both doctors and patients themselves can do to put right some of the causes of poor quality of life in IBD, and thereby make possible a full and active life for most of the time for most people with IBD.

Dr Paud O’Regan, Consultant Physician and Gastroenterologist at South Tipperary General Hospital will focus his talk on what works for patients in the treatment of IBD, based on his extensive experience in this area.

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