Our membership numbers about 650 professionals from many countries, including gastroenterologists, physiologists, epidemiologists, surgeons, psychologists, neurologists and psychiatrists who are interested in research and clinical aspects of functional gastrointestinal (GI) disorders.

Among our accomplishments, FBG members developed the symptom-based diagnostic criteria ("Rome Criteria") for the functional GI disorders and edited a resource book for research and patient care, The Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders. Diagnosis, Pathophysiology and Treatment: A Multinational Consensus, published in 2000 by Degnon Associates, Inc. We have updated this book and made revisions to the criteria, which have been published as the Rome III criteria in 2006.

We select abstracts in three categories for presentation at Digestive Disease Week (DDW), produce annual DDW symposia and co-sponsor professional meetings with other organizations.

FBG publishes Spring and Fall newsletters and a membership directory. We have an annual social/business meeting during DDW, and we welcome visitors to the meeting. Members receive online access to our official journal, Neurogastroenterology & Motility.

Over the past three years, the FBG joined the American Motility Society (AMS), the European Society for Neurogastroenterology and Motility (ESNM), and the International Group for the Study of Neurogastroenterology an Motility in planning the first joint meeting. The AMS was the hosting organization for this meeting that turned out to be a huge success.The next meeting will be held in Lucerne, Switzerland the fall of 2008 with the European Society being the host organization.

FBG will be the hosting organization for the joint meeting in 2009.