2012 International Electrogastrography Society Workshop
5pm – 10 pm Friday, May 18, 2012
Southern California Telemedicine Learning Center (SCTLC)
UCSD School of Medicine
9500 Gilman Drive MC 0615
La Jolla, CA 92093-0615
A brief schedule is listed below. A full program and the abstract book can be viewed downloaded (2mb).
5:00-6:00pm: Registration (no fee will be charged)
6:00-6:30pm: Pizza dinner
6:30-7:30pm: Award-winning abstract presentations
7:30-8:30pm: Special Session: Electrogastrography: Electrical events or mechanical artifacts?
8:40-9:00pm: Awards and Business Meeting (Richard McCallum and Jiande Chen)
9:00-10:00pm: Oral presentations selected from abstracts
We would like to thank the authors who submitted abstracts to this renewal meeting of IEGGS and the review committee members for their review of the abstracts: Tamas Ordog, Leo Cheng, Thomas Abell, Kenneth Koch, Xiaohua Hou, Jieyun Yin and Richard McCallum.
Congratulations to the following award winners:
Alvarez Award: Daily Transabdominal Electrical Stimulation Reduces Soiling in Children With Slow-Transit Constipation. Yee Ian Yik, Khairul A Ismail, John M Hutson, Bridget R Southwell
Robert Stern Award: Central mechanism of antiemetic effect of gastric electrical stimulation involving neurons in area postrema in rats. Shiying Li, Jing Zhang, Jiande Chen
Young Investigator’s Award: Numerical Metrics For Automated Quantification of ICC Network Structural Properties. J Gao, P Du, G O’Grady, RA Archer, G Farrugia, SJ Gibbons, LK Cheng
Young Investigator’s Award: Long-term Effects of Gastric Stimulation on Gastric Electrical Physiology. Patrick Williams, Yana Nikitina, Thomas Abell, Christopher Lahr, Thomas Helling
Young Investigator’s Award: Vagal nerve stimulation reduces food intake and body weight in obese rats. Fei Dai, Yong Lei and J D Z Chen
See you in San Diego!
Best regards,
Jiande Chen, PhD, University of Texas Medical Branch
Richard McCallum, MD, Texas Tech University, President of IEGGS
Apr 11, 2012