Wednesday 4th december

Thursday 5th december

Room A

Marcelo R Risk

Room A

Carlo Catassi

Nelson Ramirez-Rodriguez

Something new in celiac disease follow-up?

Jernej Dolinsek

Are we overdiagnosing gluten related disorders?

Alessio Fasano

In GRD, are we talking about a transitory pathology or a lasting disorder?

Aw Marion

Room B

Paul Harris

Harland Winter

Climate, Enviromental contamination and global child health equity.

Mark Manary

Innovations in Pediatric Global Health: the role of machine learning and AI in global child health

Sana Syed

Global challenges in childhood nutrition; from undernutrition to obesity

Mary Fewtrell

Room C1

Sandeep Gupta

Giuseppe Indolfi

Moderated Question and Answer session with Editorial teams of JPGN and JPGN Reports.

Joseph Croffie

How to transform abstracts into publishable JPGN/JPGN Reports articles

Kathleen Schwarz

Osvaldo Borrelli

Nitika Gupta

Room C2

Ulrich Baumann

Marcela Godoy

Management of small babies with liver disease: how to grow them pre-transplant

Vicky Lee Ng

Autoimmune hepatitis interplay with sclerosing cholangitis in IBD. Evaluation and prognosis

Lorenzo D'Antiga

Portal hypertension in children: challenges and persistent dilemmas

Riccardo Superina

Room C3

Magali Reyes Apodaca

The Impact of CFTR Modulators on gastrointestinal symptomatology

Meghana Sathe

Redefining liver disease in CF: new guidelines and definitions

Simon Ling

The pancreas and liver in cystic fibrosis-related disorders

Michael Wilschanski

Room D

Sanja Kolaček

Catalina Bages

Practical interventions for managing malnutrition in children under 5 years of age in low- and middle-income countries

Solange Heller Rouassant

Micronutrient supplementation and fortification in children under 5 years

Krishnapriya M Prathapan

Feeding the premature infant: Individualized feeding plans and complementary feeding

Ariel Salas

Room E

Lissy de Ridder

Dianora Coromoto Navarro

Current situation of endoscopy training in the Asian-Pacific region

Katsuhiro Arai

Simulators and other trends in endoscopy training

Jennifer Lightdale

New colonoscopy quality indicators

Reinaldo Pierre-Alvarez

Room A

Oscar Javier Quintero Hernández

Rosan Meyer

Christophe Dupont

Room C1

Yvan Vandenplas

Rodrigo Vazquez Frías

Mario Vieira

Room C2

When to suspect genetic cholestatic disease in childhood?

Jorge Abdon Bezerra

A new standard of care for patients with PFIC & ALGS

Ulrich Baumann

Improving outcomes in the real world across PFIC types & ALGS

Lorenzo D'Antiga

Room C3

12.30 - 12.45 h. ALGS and PFIC: Experience in Diagnosis and Treatment at the Hospital Italiano of Buenos Aires

Dr. Gustavo Boldrini

Argentina

12.45 - 13.00 h. Barriers in the Diagnosis and Treatment of ALGS and PFIC: Colombian Perpective and Experience

Felipe Ordoñez Guerrero

13.00 - 13.15 h. Advancements and Strengths in the Diagnosis of ALGS ans PFIC in Brazil: Success Stories

Gilda Porta

13.15 - 13.30 h. New Molecules for the Treatment of ALGS and PFIC: Experiences with IBATs at Valld´Hebron Hospital

Jesús Quintero Bernabeu

Room D

Alessio Fasano

Room E

Barriers and Challenges in Cross-Cultural Dietary Adaptation: Insights on Regional Clinical Practice

Soledad Arcucci

New Scenarios in Dietary Management and Combined Therapy with Advance Drugs

Francisco Javier Martin de Carpi

Expanding Indications for Nutritional Therapy in Pediatric Crohn Disease: beyond Induction of Remission in Mild-Moderate Disease

Eytan Wine

Room A

Stefano Guandalini

Gabriel Vinderola

Restoring premature microbiome maturation through probiotics and nutrition strategies

Marie Claire Arrieta

The fiability of HMO in different situations

Yvan Vandenplas

The use of gum arabic as natural prebiotic in the management of acute diarrhea

Omayma Sabir

Evidence-based indications for probiotics

Hania Szajewska

Room B

Cristina Targa Ferreira

Induction of cow milk protein tolerance in cow milk allergy: where are we?

Roberto Berni Canani

Impact of food allergy on quality of life and financial burden: a worldwide perspective

Dominique Bailey

The role of STAT-6 in eosinophilic gastrointestinal disorder and other allergic diseases

Ichro Takeuchi

Room C1

Anupam Sibal

Sanja Kolaček

NASPGHAN Experience with Entrustable Professional Activities (EPA)

Cary Sauer

Developing research in resource-limited areas: a tool for global equity

Robert Bandsma

Insights into successful mentor-mentee relationship

Taoufik Meskini

Building global networks: Latinamerica´s vision for worldwide gastroenterology education

María Alejandra Mortarini

Training systems across different countries and inequities

Anne Marie Grima

Room C2

Giuseppe Indolfi

Irene Kazue Miura

World Health Organization’s goal of elimination of viral hepatitis by 2030. don’t forget the children

Kathleen Schwarz

Severe Acute Hepatitis: an update

Fernando Álvarez

Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD): new approaches to understanding the disease in children and its management

Ulrich Baumann

Room C3

Carlos Lifschitz

Suporn Treepongkaruna

Sarcopenia evaluation in chronic diseases: clinical challenges and future directions

Magali Reyes Apodaca

Iron supplementation in infants: To Do or Not To Do?

Natascha Silva Sandy

Early nutrition and longterm health

Rosan Meyer

Room D

Anne Griffiths

Colette Deslandres

Diagnostic challenges in low and middle income areas

Almuthe Christina Hauer

How to define the predictive factors of response? How to select the 1st biological?

Jorge Amil Dias

How dietary therapies can be made region-specific and adapted to foods available in diverse geographies

Richard Russell

New target drugs: will they become an affordable option for low-income regions?

Rohan Malik

Room E

Erick Manuel Toro Manjaraz

Annamaria Staiano

Italy

Pelvic floor therapy: new therapeutic/preventive

Miguel Angel Carro

Gastroparesis versus functional dyspepsia

Osvaldo Borelli

Postural tachycardia syndrome

Gisela Chelimsky

DGBIs from childhood to adulthood: the transition

Miguel Saps

Room A

Suporn Treepongkaruna

Carlos Velasco Benitez

Where will the Rome V Criteria go?

Samuel Nurko

What to do with functional nausea?

Marc Benninga

Should biliary disorders be considered in pediatrics within the DGBIs?

Nikhil Thapar

EndoFLIP (Endoluminal functional lumen imaging probe) in pediatrics

José Garza

Room B

Carlos Lifschitz

Marina Orsi

Argentina

Global challenges on breastfeeding promotion

Erika Ochoa Ortiz

Recent WHO complementary feeding guidelines: pros and cons

Mary Fewtrell

If mom cannot breastfeed?

Benjamin D. Gold

Can we move forward to global recommendations with complementary food introduction?

Neelam Mohan

Textures matters: key insights in complementary feeding

Liliana Ladino Melendez

Room C1

Carmen Alicia Sanchez Ramirez

Yunuen Rivera-Suazo

Acute pancreatitis: An update with severity predictors

Miguel S. Gallardo Luna

Genetic studies in pancreatitis. Where are we?

Michael Wilschanski

Therapeutic strategy in the management of acute and recurrent pancreatitis

Matías Epifanio

Endoscopic approach in chronic pancreatitis

Simona Faraci

Room C2

Karina Leta

Raquel Furnes

Transition in adolescence, adherence, healthcare providers. Our experience

Amanda Cantor

Families also make the transition, different perspectives and challenges

Norman Junge

Transitional care for patients with Inflammatory bowel disease: the japanese experience

Hideki Kumagai

The adult perspective

Edgardo Smecuol

Room C3

Ritu Verma

Enriqueta Roman Riechmann

Artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms in the endoscopic and histopathological diagnosis and follow up of CD patients

María Teresa García de Dávila

Can we move towards a global diagnostic process?

Jernej Dolinsek

What about other autoimmunity pathologies in celiac disease?

Sandhia Naik

Screening for celiac disease in the general pediatric population: has the time come?

Carlo Catassi

Room D

Mirta Ciocca

Fernando Álvarez

Transforming Care in Biliary Atresia: From Pathogenesis to the Bedside

Jorge Abdon Bezerra

Biliary atresia in adolescence and adulthood: challenges on the road to transition

Kathleen Schwarz

Genetic liver disease: Is there a new diagnostic algorithm? Is it applicable worldwide?

Richard Thompson

Novel pharmacological therapies for neonatal cholestasis. Pros and Cons.

Huey-Ling Chen

Room E

Omayma Sabir

Stacy Kahn

Introduction to Microbiome for the pediatric gastroenterologist

Christian Germán Boggio Marzet

Metagenome sequencing of the gut microbiome in populations all over the world

Ruarri Robertson

Impact of the maternal microbiome on the developing infant across the perinatal period

Flavia Indrio

Opportunities for interventions (trials)

Paul Kelly

Friday 6th december

Room C1

Rodrigo Vazquez Frías

Jordi Espadaler Mazo

Room D

Carlos Lifschitz

Elaine Mosquera

Flavia Indrio

Room E

John Status

Jorge Arturo Chávez Sainz

Room A

Roberto Fernández

Room A

Vicky Lee Ng

Laura Delgado

Childhood obesity: Epidemiology, etiology, and pathogenesis 

Jiri Bronsky

Molecular genetic of childhood obesity

Magali Reyes-Apodaca

Dietary interventions to prevent childhood obesity

Patricio Acosta Rodríguez Bueno

Advances in treatment of pediatric obesity

Irina Kovalskys

Room B

Koen Huysentruyt

Milton Mejía Castro

Strategies to prevent cow´s milk allergy: are we doing our best?

Roberto Berni Canani

Advances in the treatment of IgE-mediated food allergies

Anna Nowak Wegrzyn

New allergens in the horizon?

Sylvia Cruchet

Food allergy exclusion diet: growth and QOL-HR challenges

Katia Rodriguez

Room C1

Mauro Batista de Morais

Melvin Heyman

Advances in pediatric acute liver failure (PALF)

Rohit Kohli

Relationship between gut, liver, microbiome and nutrition

Yen Hsuan Ni

Optimal treatment of pediatric IBD: closing the gap through investigator initiated clinical research

Lissy de Ridder

Room C2

Natascha Silva Sandy

Kyung Mo Kim

Cardiovascular manifestation following liver transplantation: an update

Norman Junge

Recurrent sclerosing colangitis after liver trasplantation: new concepts

Mercedes Martinez

Optimizing use of technical variant liver allografts

George Mazariegos

Room C3

Katsuhiro Arai

Sandra Neri

Advanced polypectomy with EMR/ESD

Mike Thomson

Endoscopic management of GI fistulae and perforations in children

Paula Peruzzi

Endoscopic biliopancreatic interventions in children

Zaheer Nabi

Room D

Sandhia Naik

Omar Sadaah

From pathogenesis to novel therapies

Valentina Discepolo

Tolerance, probiotics, and peptidases

Julio César Bai

Is personalized medicine possible in celiac disease (predictors or interventions to prevent disease)?

Luciana Guzmán

Controversies in Celiac Disease and Gluten-related disorders

Stefano Guandalini

Room E

Jorge Arturo Chávez Sainz

Harland Winter

Monogenic disease VEOIBD from the GI clinic

Aleixo Muise

Do we have to consider a different diagnostic algorithm in VEOIBD?

Mamoun Elawad

Therapeutic approach in patients with VEOIBD

Victor Navas Lopez

Potential positioning of fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) and microbial therapeutics into the treatment of IBD

Richard Kellermayer

Room A

Oscar Hincapie

Ruarri Robertson

John Stutts

Room C1

Ailim Margarita Carias Domínguez

2024 Iberoamerican Guidelines on Probiotics for Digestive Health in Children: Evidence based analysis and expertise approach

Sylvia Cruchet

Pedro Gutiérrez Castrillón

Guidelines to Reality: Bringing Expert Insights into Clinical Practice Using Saccharomyces boulardii CNCM I-745.

Aldo Maruy Saito

Room C2

George Mazariegos

Adriana Fernández

Veronica Busoni

Room C3

Welcome and Introduction to the Symposium

José Vicente Spolidoro

The Cow’s Milk Related Symptom Score (CoMiSS™)

Yvan Vandenplas

Unleashing the Power of the Microbiome in the Management of CMPA

Anna Nowak-Wegrzyn

Room D

Gabriel Vinderola

Real world evidence studies

Norberto Giglio

Effectiveness  of an hydrolized formula with symbiotics

Monica Edith Del Compare

Room E

Lars Bode

Maria Fernanda Elias Llanos

Room A

Samuel Nurko

Melquicedec Vargas Sandoval

Nutritional approach in DGBI disorders

Annamaria Staiano

Italy

The unavoidable pandemic of DGBI

Carlo Di Lorenzo

Neurostimulation in pediatric DGBI

Neha Santucci

Diagnosis and treatment of oropharyngeal dysphagia

Rachel Rosen

Room B

Aw Marion

Yalda Lucero

Are there new tools to assess adherence to the gluten-free diet?

Carmen Ribes-Koninckx

New diagnostic challenges in GFD-style era

Ritu Verma

Tools to test new therapeutics: from the periphery to the gut

Valentina Discepolo

Room C1

Eduardo Hebel Weiss

Henkjan J. Verkade

Bridging the disparities in research between low- and high-income countries

Anupam Sibal

Leveraging multi-center collaborative to advance hepatology research

Jorge Abdon Bezerra

Immunity and microbiota: key regulators of the gut-brain axis

Fernando Chirdo

Room C2

Said Ettair

Armando Madrazo de la Garza

H. pylori the bad guy: associated diseases in children

Benjamin D. Gold

H. pylori the good guy: benefits of infection in modulating allergic and immune-mediated diseases

Paul Harris

H. pylori: are the NASPGHAN/ESPGHAN Guidelines 2023 applicable around the world?

Matjaz Homan

Room C3

Priya Narula

Gabriela Hernández Vez

New techniques and devices for non-variceal GI Bleeding

Petar Mamula

Endoscopic therapy for obesity (balloons and others)

Potential of balloon-assisted enteroscopy: what can we do with it?

Tomonori Yano

Room D

Jiri Bronsky

Juan Sebastián Pereira Angulo

General approach to feeding disorders

Mauro Fisberg

Feeding in neurologically impaired children

Mohamed Miqdady

Management of picky eaters

Feeding problems and nutrient intake in children with autism spectrum disorders

Ailim Margarita Carias Domínguez

Room E

Paul Kelly

Aldo Maruy Saito

Diet-microbiota interaction: towards a personalized medicine

Rosaura Leis Trabazo

Cell viability: don´t give up! In the era of postbiotics

Juan Bustamante

The future of gastrointestinal health: predicting and preventing disease with microbiotic profiling

Stacy Kahn

Room A

Monica Contreras

Mamoun Elawad

Should we tailor small molecule vs. biologic therapeutic options in low- and middle-income areas?

Lee Way Seah

Thinking about nutrient deficiency

Vera Sdepanian

What to do when we lose response to biologic? How to prevent and/or reverse the loss of response to biologics?

Francisco Javier Martin de Carpi

Decisions to make before and after luminal surgery

Anne Griffiths

Room B

Rohit Kohli

Miriam L Cuarterolo

EASL Clinical Practice Guidelines on genetic cholestatic liver disease

Henkjan J. Verkade

Food insecurity and risk for pediatric fatty liver

Rima Fawaz

Do family, culture, genetics and environment determine fatty liver?

Neelam Mohan

Indications for liver transplantation in metabolic disease: what are the results?

George Mazariegos

Room C1

Kerri Gosselin

José Fernando Vera Chamorro

Environmental Enteric Dysfunction, what are the roles of pathobionts in the pathogenesis?

Paul Kelly

Emerging and old pathogens with digestive implications (TBC, chikungunya, etc)

Anupam Sibal

Antibiotic resistance and its relevance for GI infections including C difficile burden

Andrea Lo Vecchio

Epidemiological transitions of mankind and their effect on infectious diseases

Adrian Diaz

Room C2

José Vicente Spolidoro

Jon Vanderhoof

Short bowel syndrome and intestinal adaptation

Valeria Cohran

Teduglutide use in children as a treatment for short bowel syndrome

Veronica Busoni

Long term follow up of short bowel syndrome

Olivier Goulet

Intestinal transplantation

Pablo Lobos

Room C3

Reinaldo Pierre-Alvarez

Jennifer Lightdale

A review of the New Era of Capsule Endoscopy

Ignacio Fernández Urien

Role of Pediatric Endosonography in today´s era

Moinak Sen Sarma

Endoscopic follow-up of patients with EoE: new guidelines and long-term alternatives

Montserrat Cázares Méndez

AI (Artificial Intelligence) in the Pediatric Endoscopy Room

Victor Fox

Room D

Dominique Bailey

Ericka Montijo Barrios

Update on the epidemiology of Eosinophilic Esophagitis: What factors of change should we consider?

Michelle Higuera

Current diagnostic approach of Eosinophilic Esophagitis

Mario Vieira

Gastrointestinal eosinophilic disease: beyond esophagitis

Mohamed Miqdady

Are ESPGHAN/NASPGHAN Guidelines on Eosinophilic Gastrointestinal Disorders Beyond the Esophagus applicable around the world?

Alexandra Papadopoulou

Therapeutic developments in eosinophilic esophagitis and their effectiveness

Jorge Amil Dias

Room E

Gilda Porta

Norman Junge

Optimizing Peritrasplant Care to Improve Outcomes as a Pediatrician

Kyung Mo Kim

Should living donor be almost always the first graft option in pediatric liver transplants?

Joao Seda

Care of the long-term survivor of pediatric liver transplantation in 2024; definitely not just about the liver

Vicky Lee Ng

LDLT in the setting of acute on chronic liver failure

Ruben Quiros- Tejeira

Room D

Health care professionals and AI: Adapt or Be Left Behind

Hania Szajewska

Innovative Approaches in Pediatric Gastroenterology: Machine Learning for Stool Consistency Assessment

Yvan Vandenplas

The future is here: enhancing pediatric care with Artificial Intelligence

Gabriel Vinderola

Saturday 7th december

Room A

Fernando Chirdo

Room A

Jorge Palacios Rosales

Hania Szajewska

Latest advances in the infant microbiome: the mycobiome in early-life immune and metabolic development

Marie Claire Arrieta

Give the bugs or feed the bugs?

Juan José Díaz Martín

SIBO

José Garza

Room B

Sylvia Cruchet

Kyung Mo Kim

Nutritional requirements for a healthy diet

Irina Kovalskys

Sugar in infants, children and adolescents

Jiri Bronsky

Feasibility of plant based diets for children

Erika Ochoa Ortiz

No Gluten, No Milk or FODMAPS diets

Katia Rodriguez

Room C1

Thomas Attard

Isabel Rojas

Pediatric polyposis syndromes: an easy guide

Shlomi Cohen

Extracolonic cancer surveillance in pediatric polyposis: guidelines and beyond

Thomas Attard

Familial adenomatous polyposis: keeping the colon

Nakayama Yoshiko

Psychosocial challenges and transition of care in children with polyposis

Michele Maddux

Polypectomy: avanced techniques

Mike Thomson

Room C2

Mario Vieira

Room C3

Mercedes Martinez

Alejandro Costaguta

Recurrent acute liver failure: diagnosis and management

Gilda Porta

Gene therapy: an update

Lorenzo D'Antiga

Congenital porto-systemic shunts: imaging tests and guidelines

Riccardo Superina

Novel concepts in porto-sinusoidal disorder in children

José Ernesto Lipsich

Room D

Monica Contreras

Lissy de Ridder

IUS-IBD, What can you tell us? Will it be part of every medical visit?

Michael Winter

When a child is ready to become an adult: transition of care in IBD

Eytan Wine

The Pan American Crohn;s and Colitis Organization (PANCCO) Experience

Juan Andrés De Paula

Fertility and breastfeeding still in the biologic era

Rachel Winter

Room E

Lucia Escobedo Berumen

Roman Bigliardi

Refractory constipation:medical and surgical treatment

Leonel Rodríguez

Psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, food and drugs in DGBIs

Andrés Bodas Pinedo

Central neuromodulators in the treatment of DGBIs

Desalegn Yacob

Autism spectrum disorder and gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms

Joseph Croffie