Professor Ian J Cook
Professor Ian J Cook MB.BS(Hons), MD (Syd), FRACP.
(Scientific Advisory Committee Chairperson) Director, Department of Gastroenterology, St George Hospital, Sydney, and Professor of Medicine (Conjoint), University of NSW.
Professor Cook graduated with honours in Medicine from the University of Sydney in 1978, and was subsequently awarded his Doctorate in Medicine by the University of Sydney in 1989. He completed research fellowships at McMaster University, Ontario (1985-1986); the Medical College of Wisconsin (1987); and the University of Adelaide where he held the Gwendolyn Michell Senior Research Fellowship in Medicine (1988-1990).
He holds specialist qualifications in internal medicine (FRACP) specialising in gastroenterology and over the past 20 years he has built up a program of research into gastrointestinal motor disorders with a focus on pharyngo-oesophageal physiology, swallowing disorders, colonic motor function and the pathophysiology of severe constipation.
Professor Cook has attracted continuous funding from NH&MRC to support this research the past 19 years. He currently holds over $1.4 million in funding from NH&MRC and other sources; has 73 publications in peer reviewed journals and has written 40 book chapters and review articles; and serves on the editorial boards for the journals Dysphagia, and Neurogastroenterology and Motility. He has served on Grant Review panels for, and has provided expert peer review of grants submitted to NH&MRC for 20 years.
He has served on numerous national and international expert committees and research societies some of which include –
- Gastroenterological Society of Australia,
- American Gastroenterology Association,
- National Health and Medical Research Council (NH&MRC)
- International Society of Neurogastroenterology and Motility,
- International Dysphagia Research Society (President 2003)
- Organisation Mondiale d’Etudes Spécialisées sur les Maladies de l’Oesophage
- International Society for Diseases of the Esophagus.
- Greater Metropolitan Clinical Taskforce (GMCT)
Additional research interests include: correlation between symptoms and physiological measures in gut disease, sensory perception and afferent nerve dysfunction in the functional gastrointestinal diseases as well as the conduct of clinical trials in gastrointestinal disorders.
