[00:00:30] What is functional abdominal pain?
[00:02:17] What is the difference between functional and idiopathic?
[00:03:37] What is the patient journey like through the healthcare system from their family doctors all the way until you see them in a hospital as a specialist?
[00:05:39] Walk through the approach of helping patients once they are in front of you.
[00:07:50] Navigating the shift away the biomedical model to the biopsychosocial model.
[00:09:40] Response to understanding functional GI disorders
[00:11:25] How to reach out to primary care physicians, the first people who see these patients who present with a functional GI disorder?
[00:12:55] Difference in approach to a child that comes up with IBS versus an adult
[00:16:16] How to effectively build a therapeutic alliance?
[00:19:15] Role of alternative or complementary medicine in dealing with functional GI disorders
[00:24:14] Experience in building a multidisciplinary team to manage functional GI conditions.
[00:27:30] Developing a personal interest in functional abdominal pain
[00:29:05] Patient’s response to co-management with a psychologist
[00:32:14] General advice to interested healthcare trainees interested in functional GI