Dr. Giuseppe Chiarioni, born in Rovigo, Italy 18/03/1958. Position held-Research Fellow at the Division of Digestive Diseases, Francis Scott Key Medical Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Academic Year 1986/87, where he developed his longstanding interest in gastrointestinal motility disorders and biofeedback therapy. -Junior Staff at the Division of Gastrointestinal Rehabilitation of the University of Verona, Academic Hospital of Valeggio sul Mincio, Verona, Italy from 1987-02-11 to 1994-01-02 then Deputy Chief at the same institution-Ongoing Joint appointment of Deputy Chief at both the Division of Gastrointestinal Rehabilitation and the Division of Gastroenterology of the University of Verona, Verona, Italy-Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, United States since 2010-01-08-Faculty at the post-Doc course in clinical hypnosis hold at the Bernheim Institute of Hypnosis, Verona, Italy since the Academic Year 2010/21. Honors and awards-Recipient of a Rotary Foundation Scholarship for the Academic Year 1986/87.-Recipient of the “International Award of Young Investigator” of the World Organization of Gastroenterology in Los Angeles, CA, United States 1994-Visiting Professor in Gastrointestinal Motility at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, United States on 23-28.08.1999 -Member of the Mc Master Online Rating System of Evidence (More) after appointment by the McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada -Member of the Scholarship Committee of the Rome Foundation for the study of Functional Digestive Disorders for the year 2009-Member of the incoming (2013) Rome IV Functional Anorectal Disorders Committee of the Rome Foundation.