Dear colleague!

Enclosed, please find suggestions for changing the rules of SAGIM. The changes have been extensively discussed within the steering committee. The changes are merely minor corrections giving a more precise description of elections and function period for the different positions within the organisation.

The suggested changes are going to be presented at the next general assembly in connection with the Nordic gastromeeting in Reykjavik from the June 10-13, 2001. The general assembly is scheduled to the 12^th June 2001, 17.00 hours.

As usual SAGIM will have a scientific session at the Nordic gastromeeting together with a session of free papers on gastrointestinal motility. The guest lectures will be:

• "Scintigraphy in the study of gastrointestinal motility". Jan Lysgård Madsen, Denmark.
• "Intestinal gas dynamics and gastrointestinal perception". Jordi Serra, Spain.

You are strongly encouraged to submit a paper, and there will be an award on 10.000 SEK for the best abstract submitted. The three past presidents will judge the abstract. Authors and institution will be blinded for the election committee. Original and innovative abstracts will have a high priority. For further information about the Nordic gastromeeting you may contact:

Please, also make notice of the meeting in Gothenburg:

PERIPHERAL AND CENTRAL MECHANISMS IN THE PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF THE IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME SYMPOSIUM, GOTHENBURG SWEDEN, APRIL 25-26, 2001.

Finally, we will remind you on the International Symposium on Gastrointestinal Motility in Madison, Wisconsin, USA, 16-19 September 2001. Deadline for receipt of abstracts is 1^st April. For further information

Yours Sincerely

Niels Qvist, President