**Meet the editors**

Eldon Shaffer is a Gastroenterologist who has held leadership positions in academic Medicine. At a university level, Dr. Shaffer was founding Division Head (Gastroenterology); founding chair, Gastrointestinal Research Group; Associate Dean (Clinical Affairs) and Department Head (Internal Medicine), all in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary. At a national level,

he was the founding President of the Canadian Association for Study of the Liver (CASL); President, Canadian Association of Gastroenterology (CAG); President, Canadian Society for Clinical Investigation (CSCI); Chair of the Medical Advisory Board, Crohn's and Colitis Foundation and President, Canadian Professors of Medicine. At an international level, he served on committees for the American College of Gastroenterology; the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease; the American Gastroenterological Association, chairing its Liver Biliary section and sitting on the AGA Council, and the Organizing Committee (Chair, Public Relations Committee) for the World Congress of Gastroenterology (Montreal 2005). His personal research activity has yielded over 500 papers, abstracts and edited texts. A recognized educator, Dr. Shaffer has received awards nationally from the CAG, CASL, CSCI. He currently is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Calgary, where he enjoys an active consulting practice in Gastroenterology and continues to maintain his education and research interests that span from hepatobiliary diseases though functional gut disease and eosinophilic gastrointestinal disease.

Michael Curley grew up in Cornwall, Prince Edward Island, Canada. He did his medical training including residencies in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is a consultant Gastroenterologist and clinical assistant professor with the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the University of Calgary, South Health Campus,

Calgary, Alberta. His main clinical interests include upper gastrointestinal tract motility disorders and functional disorders. He has a strong interest in medical education and has an active role in mentoring and teaching trainees from medical student to Gastroenterology fellowship level.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Dyspepsia 29**

**Dyspepsia 95**

**Disorders 111**

Chapter 8 **Upper Gastrointestinal Symptoms and Cardiovascular Disease 135**

Jan Pen

Chapter 1 **Diagnostic Testing for Functional Dyspepsia 1** Durre Sabih and Muhammad Kashif Rahim

Chapter 3 **Inflammation and the Biopsychosocial Model in Pediatric**

Chapter 4 **Functional Dyspepsia and Helicobacter pylori Infection 55** Ratha-korn Vilaichone and Varocha Mahachai

Chapter 5 **Helicobacter pylori—Associated Dyspepsia in Paediatrics 69** Mónica Roxo-Rosa, Mónica Oleastro and Ana Isabel Lopes

Chapter 7 **Biliary Dyspepsia: Functional Gallbladder and Sphincter of Oddi**

Meena Mathivanan, Liisa Meddings and Eldon A. Shaffer

Craig I. Coleman, Brendan L. Limone, Jeff R. Schein, Winnie W. Nelson, Joyce C. LaMori, Jeffrey Kluger and C. Michael White

Chapter 6 **Diet in the Etiology and Management of Functional**

Jennifer Verrill Schurman and Craig A. Friesen

Chapter 2 **Is Functional Dyspepsia Idiopathic? 13** Sylvester Chuks Nwokediuko
