GPDA Public Forum/Patient support meeting:
Finding Answers for your Distressing Digestive Symptoms,
June 14, 2008. Libin Lecture Theatre, University of Calgary.

Below you will find titles of our Videotaped / PowerPoint presentation ('Webcast'). You may listen to any or all presentations. Some features of our Webcasts:

• Just click on the title of the presentation you are interested in watching.
• A split screen will appear (only for the presentations which also had accompanying slides (power point). The left side of the screen shows a video of the presenter, with the slides on the right side. The slides will automatically advance in sync with the presenters lecture.
• You may choose to enlarge the slides to full screen size and just listen to the audio. To enlarge the slides, just find the tool bar directly below the slides and click on the "boxed arrow" icon.
• Also you may advance the slides independently. The slide tool bar has small arrows for advancing the slides forwards or backwards.
• As well, a table of contents appears below the slide tool bar for you to individually select any power point topic of interest.

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If you have any problems with viewing any of the webcast programs, first look over our trouble shooting guide. If you still cannot resolve your problems-then please contact GPDA

• Opening Address: Paddy Meade, Deputy Minister, Alberta Health and Wellness.
  
  
• Your sponsor: GPDA, presentation by Jeanne Keith-Ferris, RN, BScN: President/Founder, GPDA
  
  
• New Centre for Digestive Motility (CDM): Christopher Andrews M.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Calgary and Dr. Philip Mitchell, Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery, University of Calgary
  
  
• Upper Gut Motility Problems: Richard McCallum M.D., Professor of Medicine, Director of Center for GI Nerve and Muscle Function, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas
  
  
• Lower gut Motility Problems: Edy E. Soffer, M.D., Co-Director: GI Motility Laboratory, Division of Gastroenterology, Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles, CA.
  
  
• Nutritional Support for GI Motility Problems: Carol Rees Parrish, RD, MS, Digestive Health Center of Excellence, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA.
  
  
• New Generation Neuro-stimulating Devices for the Treatment of GI Motility Diseases: Martin P. Mintchev, Ph.D., P.Eng., Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Biomedical Engineering/Medical Electronics, University of Calgary, Adjunct Professor of Surgery, University of Alberta.
  
  
• Panel Discussion: written question period: Christopher Andrews M.D., Panel leader; Philip Mitchell M.D.; Edy Soffer M.D.; Richard McCallum M.D.; Carol Rees Parish R.D.; Martin Mintchev Ph.D.