1Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
2Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
3Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
4Department of Reproductive Medicine, UC San Diego Health Systems, La Jolla, California, USA
5Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
6Simon Foundation, Langley, British Columbia, Canada
7Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics, Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
8Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
9Department of Gastroenterology, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, USA
10National Institutes of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Correspondence: Adil E. Bharucha, MBBS, MD, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
Received 02 June 2014; accepted 01 November 2014
Guarantor of the article: Adil E. Bharucha, MBBS, MD.
Specific author contributions: All authors presented at the symposium, participated in writing, and reviewed the final submitted version of this manuscript.
Financial support: Bharucha was partly supported by NIH grants R01 DKDK78924 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Whitehead was partly supported by Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality grant R01 HS018695 and NIH grant R21 DK096545.
Potential competing interest: Whitehead received research support from Salix Pharmaceuticals.