About the contributor
From the following article
Clinical disorders of the upper esophageal sphincter
Ian J. Cook
GI Motility online (2006)
doi:10.1038/gimo37
Ian J. Cook
Professor Cook graduated with honors from the University of Sydney Medical School in 1978. He underwent fellowship training in medicine and gastroenterology in Sydney, Canada and the United States. He became a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of Physicians in 1985. His research training included a research fellowship at McMaster University Medical Centre, Ontario, Canada, 1985-86 where he pursued research into colonic motility and the irritable bowel syndrome. On the basis of this research he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1988. He also undertook research in pharyngeal and esophageal motility, this work being continued at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin from 1987 to 1988. During this period he was instrumental in the development of novel techniques for the manometric and radiographic assessment of normal and disordered pharyngeal swallow mechanics. From 1988 to 1990 he held the Gwendolyn Michell Senior Research Fellow, University of Adelaide where he made further advances in the fields of pharyngeal and colonic motility. Since 1990, Professor Cook has been Director of Gastroenterology, St George Hospital, Sydney and is currently a Professor of Medicine (Conjoint), University of New South Wales. He is an active clinician, teacher and researcher. He has consistently attracted NH&MRC (national peer reviewed) research grant funding to continue his research into pharyngeal and esophageal motor and sensory function, mechanisms of dysphagia; as well as the relationships between intracolonic pressure and transit in health and in colonic motor disorders.