8:00 AM         Registration, Buffet Breakfast and Exhibits

8:55 AM         Welcome and Introductions

9:00 AM         GERD – DIAGNOSIS, TREATMENT AND MANAGEMENT

                        Alin Botoman, MD

10:00 AM       IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME: THE ROLE OF BACTERIA,                        ANTIBIOTICS AND PROBIOTICS

                   Yehuda Ringel, MD

10:55 AM       Mid-morning Coffee Break and Exhibits

11:10 AM       CHRONIC CONSTIPATION: DEFINING THE PROBLEM AND                         CLINICAL IMPACT

                        Ernest Bouras, MD

12:00 noon     DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT FOR INFLAMMATORY

                        BOWEL DISEASE

...................... Charles Sninsky, MD

1:00 PM         ADJOURN   -    (All lectures include time for Q and A)

FACULTY

Alin Botoman, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine - Department of Gastroenterology

University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

Miami, FL

Yehuda Ringel, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine - Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, NC

Ernest Bouras, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Mayo Clinic

Jacksonville, FL

Charles Sninsky, MD

Digestive Disease Associates

Gainesville, FL

(Former Professor of Medicine at the Univ. of Florida)