Nancy J. Norton, IFFGD President

Nancy J. Norton

Nancy Norton is a prominent public speaker and advocate for the study and treatment of functional gastrointestinal disorders. On behalf of IFFGD, she organizes the biennial International Symposium on Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders, a forum for international experts. Ms. Norton has provided testimony to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives Appropriation Subcommittees on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education.

Professional Societies

Ms. Norton serves in several prominent professional societies. Her roles have included:

• Commissioner, National Commission on Digestive Diseases, National Institutes of Health (NIH). Term: duration.
• Presenter, National Institutes of Health (NIH) State-of-the-Science Conference on Prevention of Fecal and Urinary Incontinence in Adults, addressing The Impact of Fecal and Urinary Incontinence on Health Consumers – Barriers on Diagnosis and Treatment ­– The Patient’s Perspective. December 10–12, 2007.
• Member, Advisory Committee to the Director of the Office of Research on Women's Health (ACRWH), National Institutes of Health (NIH). Term: 2006 to 2010
• Committee Member. Rome III: The Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders. Working Team on Gender, Age, Society, Culture, and the Patient's Perspective.
• Planning Committee, NIH State-of-the-Science Conference: Cesarean Delivery on Maternal Request.
• Council Member, NIH National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) Advisory Council Term: 2001 to 2005
• Chair, Digestive Disease National Coalition (DDNC) 1997–2007
• Panel Member, NIH State-of-the-Science Conference, Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) for Diagnosis and Therapy
• Council Member, National Digestive Disease Information Clearinghouse (NDDIC)
• Committee Member, Institute for Clinical Reasearch and Education, American College of Gastroenterology (ACG)
• Ex-Officio Executive Committee Member, Functional Brain-Gut Research Group (FBG)
• Advisory Board Member, UNC Center for Functional GI & Motility Disorders
• Advisory Board Member, Simon Foundation for Continence
• Associate, Director's Council of Public Representatives, National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Publications:

• Norton, N.J., Epilogue, in Schuster, M.M. and Wehmueller, J., Keeping Control – Understanding and Overcoming Fecal Incontinence, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994, pg. 137-146.
• Nelson, R., Norton, N., Cautley, E., Furner, S., Community-Based Prevalence of Anal Incontinence, Journal of the American Medical Association. Vol. 274, No. 7, 559-561, 1995.
• Norton, N.J., Patient Advocacy and Self-help Groups, in Olden. K.W. (ed): Handbook of Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders, Marcel Dekkar, Inc. 1996, Ch. 14, pp. 329-336.
• Norton, N.J., The Patient Experience, Functional GI Disorders, Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Part 1, Nosology, Epidemiology, and Pathophysiology. American Digestive Health Foundation, 1999.
• Whitehead, W., Wald, A., Norton, N., Treatment Options for Fecal Incontinence: A Consensus Conference Report, Diseases of the Colon and Rectum. Vol. 44, No. 1, 131-142, 2001.
• Cohen S, Bacon BR, Berlin JA, Fleischer D, Hecht GA, Loehrer PJ Sr, McNair AE Jr, Mulholland M, Norton NJ, Rabeneck L, Ransohoff DF, Sonnenberg A, Vannier MW. National Institutes of Health State-of-the-Science Conference Statement: ERCP for diagnosis and therapy, January 14-16, 2002. Gastrointest Endosc. 2002 Dec;56(6):803-9.
• Whitehead W.E., Norton N.J., Wald A. Introduction. Advancing the treatment of fecal and urinary incontinence through research. Gastroenterology. 2004 Jan;126(1 Suppl 1):S1-2.
• Whitehead W.E., Wald A., Norton N.J. Priorities for treatment research from different professional perspectives: Gastroenterology. 2004 Jan;126(1 Suppl 1):S180-5.
• Norton, N.J., The Perspective of the Patient. Gastroenterology 2004 Jan;126(1 Suppl 1):S175-9.
• Chang L., Toner B.B., Fukudo S., Guthrie E., Locke G.R., Norton N.J., Sperber A.D. Gender, Age, Society, Culture, and the Patient's Perspective in the Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders. Gastroenterology. 2006 May; 130(5):1435-1446.
• Chang L., Toner B.B., Fukudo S., Guthrie E., Locke G.R., Norton N.J., Sperber A.D., Gender, Age, Society, Culture, and the Patient's Perspective in the Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders, in Drossman DA (sr ed): Rome III: The Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders, Degnon Associates, Inc. 2006, Ch. 5, pp. 232-237. 
• Norton N.J.. Foreword: A Patient’s View. In Thompson WG. Understanding the Irritable Gut: The Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders. McLean VA, Degnon Associates, 2008.
• Drossman D.A., Chang L., Schneck S., Blackman C., Norton W.F., Norton N.J. A focus group assessment of patient perspectives on irritable bowel syndrome and illness severity. Dig Dis Sci. 2009 Apr 1.

• Drossman D.A., Morris C.B., Schneck S., Hu Y.J.B., Norton N.J., Norton W.F., Weinland S., Dalton C., Leserman J., Bangdiwala S.I. International survey of patients with IBS: Symptom features and their severity, health status,treatments, and risk taking to achieve clinical benefit. J Clin Gastroenterol. 2009 Jul;43(6):541-50.