Professor Nick Talley is Pro Vice Chancellor of the Faculty of Health at the University of Newcastle, in Australia, and Professor of Medicine. He was formerly Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida where he held the rank of Professor of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine; he also held the rank of Professor of Epidemiology. Previously, Nick was the Director of the Motility Interest Group in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, and before that was the Foundation Professor of Medicine at the University of Sydney, Nepean Hospital. He currently holds adjunct research appointments as Professor at Mayo Clinic, University of North Carolina and the Karolinska Institute. He undertook his undergraduate medical degree at the University of New South Wales, and holds doctorates from his alma mater and the University of Sydney as well as a Master’s degree from the University of Newcastle.

 Nick is currently co-editor-in-chief of Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics. Previously, he was co-editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Gastroenterology, and serves on a number of prominent editorial boards. He is a founding member and Director of the Rome Foundation, a past President of the Functional Brain-Gut Research Group, was a counselor in the American Gastroenterology Association Motility Section, and served as a member of the Board of the American College of Gastroenterology. He currently serves as a Director on the Board of the Hunter Medical Research Institute in Newcastle. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Royal College of Physicians (both London and Edinburgh), and the American College of Physicians. Nick is a Visiting Medical Officer at the John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle.