Current targets in irritable bowel syndrome: an interview with Eamonn Quigley. Interview by Emma Quigley

Eamonn M M Quigley, MD, FACG, is Vice-President of the World Gastroenterology Organisation and Secretary of the American College of Gastroenterology. He is also Professor of Medicine and Human Physiology and Head of the Medical School at the National University of Ireland in Cork. Between 1991 and 1998, he served as Chief of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, where he was also Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine. Dr Quigley has been awarded a Fogarty International Fellowship by the National Institutes of Health and an Ainsworth Traveling Scholarship from University College Cork. He completed higher medical training in gastroenterology and internal medicine as a Senior Registrar and Lecturer in the Department of Medicine at Hope Hospital and the University of Manchester. His MD thesis was awarded by the National University of Ireland in 1984 and he received his medical education at University College Cork, graduating MB BCh BAO in 1976. Dr Quigley served as Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Gastroenterology from 1997 to 2003, and he has published > 400 articles, including original manuscripts, editorials, review articles, book chapters and case reports. He is also interested and involved in education in the area of gastroenterology and has participated in, or directed symposia, workshops and other teaching forums and prepared a variety of related teaching aids.