Scientific Programme

Breastfeeding and complementary food Food Allergy & Eosinophilic Diseases Hepatology Nutrition & intestinal rehabilitation
1.  Global challenges on Breast Feeding promotion 1. Strategies to prevent Cow´s milk allergy: Are we doing our best? 1. Where are in prevention and treatment of hepatitis B and C.  1. Effective interventions to improve outcome in the malnourished child under 5 years of age in low- and middle-income countries
2. Recent WHO Guidelines;  Pros and Cons 2. Advances in the treatment of IgE mediated food allergies 2. Autoimmune hepatitis interplay with sclerosing colangitis and  inflammatory bowel disease: Is  it a progressive disease? 2. Premature infant: implementing Individualized feeding plans and complementary food introduction 
3. If mom cannot breast feed  3. New allergens in the horizon? 3. Associated steatotic liver disease (ASLD): new approaches to understanding the disease in children and management 3. Vitamin supplementation When? To whom ?
4. Can we move forward to global recommendations with complementary food introduction ? 4. Induction of cow milk protein tolerance in cow milk allergy: where are we? 4. Portal hypertension in children: challenges and persistent dilemmas. 4. Child with special nutritional requirements
Celiac & GRD 5. Impact of food allergy on quality of life and financial burden: a worldwide perspective 5. Biliary Atresia: advances in etiology, pathogenesis and long term follow up 5. Childhood obesity: Epidemiology and pathogenesis
1. Artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms in the endoscopic and histopathological diagnosis and follow up of CD patients  6. AllerStat: Search of allergen-specific patterns, allergenicity prediction and utility evaluation of synthetic foods and proteins 6. Genetic liver diseases: Is there a new diagnostic algorithm? Is it feasible worldwide?  6. Dietary interventions to prevent childhood obesity 
2. Can we move towards a global diagnostic process?  7. Update on the epidemiology of Eosinophilic Esophagitis: What factors of change should we consider? 7. Neonatal cholestasis: novel pharmacological therapies . Pros and Cont.  7. Advances in treatment of pediatric obesity
3. What about other autoimmunity pathologies in celiac disease? 8. Current diagnostic approach of Eosinophilic Esophagitis 8. Are risk factors for metabolic dysfunction–associated fatty liver disease alike in patients younger and older than 5? 8. Exclusion diets : growth vs burden
4. Screening for celiac disease in the general pediatric population: has the time come?.  9. Gastrointestinal eosinophilic disease: beyond esophagitis 9. Food insecurity and pediatric ASLD severity 9. Facts and fiction ; vegetarian , veganism , gluten free , lactose free and more diets
5. Something new in celiac disease follow-up?  10. Are ESPGHAN/NASPGHAN Guidelines on Eosinophilic Gastrointestinal Disorders Beyond the Esophagus applicable around the world? 10. How are ASLD diet therapies adapted to regional / local customs? 10. New insights on “ healthy diets “
6.   Are we overdiagnosing gluten related disorders? 11. Therapeutic developments in eosinophilic esophagitis and their effectiveness 11. Metabolic diseases and liver transplantation: never a living donor? 11. Feeding disorders How to improve their every day life
7. In GRD, are we talking about a transitory pathology or a lasting disorder?  Enviromental and Global health  12. Severe Acute Hepatitis: An Update 12. Short bowel and intestinal adaptation
8. Are there new tools to assess adherence to the gluten-free diet? 1. Environmental Enteric Dysfunction, what are the roles of pathobionts in the pathogenesis?   13. Sarcopenia in Children with Liver Disease: does it have an impact on follow-up or is it just an anthropometric measure? 13. Teglutide use when and to whom ?
9. New diagnostic challenges in GFD style era 2. Emerging and old pathogens with digestive implications (TBC, chikungunya, etc) 14. Porto Systemic Shunt: imaging tests and treatment guidelines 14. Long term follow up on home parenteral nutrition
10. Assessment of response in gluten challenge and clinical trials  3. Antibiotic resistance and its relevance for GI infections including C difficile burden IBD  15. Intestinal transplantation, elongation and combined surgical strategies
11. From pathogenesis to novel therapies  4. New Infections in Latin America 1. Should we tailor small molecule vs. biologic therapeutic options in low- and middle-income areas?  Pancreatology
12. Argentinean experiences in new therapies. Probiotics and peptidases 5. Climate, Enviromental contamination and global child health equity. 2. How to  define the predictive factors of response?  How to select the 1st biological?  1. Acute pancreatitis: An Update with severity predictors 
13. Is personalized medicine possible in celiac disease (predictors or interventions to prevent disease)?  6. Innovations in Pediatric Global Health: the role of machine learning and AI in global child health 3. What to do when we lose the response to biologicals? How to prevent and/or reverse the loss of response to biologics?  2. Genetic studies in pancreatitis. Where we are? 
Endoscopy 7. Hunger and growth: Addressing food insecurity towards 2030 sustainable development goals. From undernutrition to obesity in childhood. 4. The role of intestinal resection in Crohn"s disease (provocative studies like the lyric trial) and surgical decision-making in UC  3. Therapeutic strategy in management of acute, recurrent and chronic pancreatitis 
1. A review of the New Era of Capsule Endoscopy 8. H. pylori the bad guy: Associated diseases in children 5.  Diagnostic challenges in low and middle income areas  4. Endoscopic approach in Chronic Pancreatitis
2. Role of Pediatric Endosonography in today´s era 9. H. pylori the good guy: Benefits of infection in modulating allergic and immune-mediated diseases 6. New target , will they become an affordable option for low-income regions?  Research & Future directions
3. Endoscopic follow-up of patients with EoE: new guidelines and long-term alternatives 10. H. pylori: Are the NASPGHAN/ESPGHAN Guidelines 2023 applicable around the world? 7. How dietary therapies can be made region specific and adapted to foods available in diverse geographies 1. Advances in Pediatric Acute Liver Failure (PALF): Failure to TRIUMPH.
4. AI (Artificial Intelligence) in the Pediatric Endoscopy Room  Gut Microbiota 8. Monogenic disease  VEOIBD the immunologist's vision 2. To circulate around the gut, liver, and nutrition with microbiome
5. New techniques and devices for non-variceal GI Bleeding 1.    Introduction to Microbiome for the pediatric gastroenterologist  9. Do we have to consider a different  diagnostic  algorithm  in VEOIBD? 3. Optimal treatment in pediatric IBD, closing the gap via investigator initiated clinical research
6. Endoscopic therapy for Obesity (balloons and others) 2.    Metagenome sequencing of the gut microbiome in populations all over the world 10. Beyond Crohn  disease ….. The dietary habits of patients with UC  under follow-up in an IBD unit 4. What is the key to research in developing countries? jumping the hurdles to go to growth
7.  Potential of balloon-assisted enteroscopy: What can we do with BAE? 3.    Impacts of the maternal microbiome on the developing infant across the perinatal period  11. EUS-IBD, What can you tell us, Will it be essential in every medical visit?  5. What news in hepatocyte transplantation? Is an opportunity for acute liver failure?
8.  Advanced polypectomy with EMR/ESD 4.    Opportunities for interventions (trials)   12. Transition readness in youth with IBD 6. What happens with chronic bowel inflammation. Where does it take to you?
9. Endoscopic management of GI fistulae and perforations in children 5. Cell viability: don´t give up! In the era of postbiotics.  13. Fertility and breastfeeding  still in our activity  Transplant
10. Endoscopic biliopancreatic interventions in children 6. The fiability of HMO in different situations  JPGN 1. Pediatric waiting list mortality & amp; how to improve it
11. Simulators and other trends in Endoscopy training 7. The use of gum Arabic as natural prebiotic in the management of acute diarrhea  1. Recognize publication topics of interest for JPGN and JPGN Reports 2. Should living donor be almost always the first graft option in pediatric liver transplant candidate?
12. Current situation of Endoscopy Training in Asian Pacific Region 8. Diet-microbiota interaction: towards a personalized medicine 2. Develop a manuscript plan to transform abstracts to publication at JPGN/JPGNR 3. Technical variant grafts varies widely and impacts pediatric liver transplant waitlist and recipient outcomes in the United States
13. New Colonoscopy quality indicators  9. Give the bugs or feed the bugs? 3. Determine an approach to common editorial issues 4.  Cardiovascular manifestation after Liver transplantation: An update
14. A concise review and update on the spectrum of hereditary polyposis syndromes encountered in children with focus on key management considerations 10. The Future of Gastrointestinal Health: Predicting and Preventing Disease with Microbiotic Profiling Neurogastroenterology & motility 5. LDLT in the setting of ACLF
15. Extracolonic Cancer Surveillance in Pediatric Polyposis, Guidelines and Beyond   1. Where will the Rome V Criteria go?  6. What the pandemic taught us: Vaccination or more
16. Familial Adenomatous Polyposis, Keeping the Colon   2. What to do with functional nausea? 7. Outcomes after a long-term of pediatric liver transplantation
17. Psychosocial Challenges and Transition of Care in Children with Polyposis   3. Should biliary disorders be considered in pediatrics within the DGBIs? Transition to adult care
18. Polypectomy and Advanced Techniques    4. EndoFLIP (Endoluminal functional lumen imaging probe) in pediatrics  1. Adherence, Costs and Providers: Approach for an adolescent in Transition
    5. Pelvic floor therapy: new therapeutic/preventive  2. Family and transition. A Broad vision
    6. DGBIs from childhood to adulthood: the transition 3. Quality of life and transition. Two ends of the same skein?
    7. Gastroparesis versus Functional dyspepsia 4. Adult perspective view
    8. Refractory constipation:medical and surgical treatment  Young Career & Training Program
    9. Psychotherapy, hipnotherapy, food and drugs in motility disorders 1.  Naspghan Experience with EPA
    10. Central Neuromodulators in the treatment of DGBIs  2. Training abroad and returning to your home country
    11. Nutritional approach in DGBI disorders  3. Developing research in resource limited areas a tool for global equity
    12.  The unavoidable pandemic of DGBI  4. Building Global Networks: Latin America´s Vision for worldwide Gastroenterology Education
    13. Neurostimulation in pediatric DGBI