Thursday 5th december

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.

How to transform abstracts into publishable JPGN/JPGN Reports articles

Osvaldo Borrelli

Lissy de Ridder

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

Mohamed El Guindi

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 Wilchanski

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

Simulators and other trends in endoscopy training

Jennifer Lightdale

Current situation of endoscopy training in the Asian-Pacific region

Katsuhiro Arai

New colonoscopy quality indicators

Reinaldo Pierre-Alvarez

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

Evidence-based indications for probiotics

Hania Szajewska

Room B

Cristina Targa Ferreira

Marcus Auth

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

Room C2

Giuseppe Indolfi

Irene Kazue Miura

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

Severe Acute Hepatitis: an update

Fernando Álvarez

EASL Clinical Practice Guidelines on genetic cholestatic liver disease

Henkjan J. Verkade

Room C3

Room D

Anne Griffiths

Claudia Katherine Rojo Lillo

Diagnostic challenges in low and middle income areas

Almuthe Christina Hauer

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

Rohan Malik

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

Richard Russell

Thinking about nutrient deficiency

Vera Sdepanian

Room E

Roman Bigliardi

Erick Manuel Toro Manjaraz

Pelvic floor therapy: new therapeutic/preventive

Miguel Angel Carro

DGBIs from childhood to adulthood: the transition

Miguel Saps

Gastroparesis versus functional dyspepsia

Osvaldo Borelli

Postural tachycardia syndrome

Gisella Chelimsky

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

Nezha Mouane

Jeff Greghorn

Global challenges on breastfeeding promotion

Erika Ochoa

Recent WHO 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 Gallardo

Genetic studies in pancreatitis. Where are we?

Huma Cheema

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

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

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 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 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

Nezha Mouane

Advances in treatment of pediatric obesity

Irina Kovalskys

Room B

Ichro Takeuchi

Yvan Vandenplas

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): update on TRIUMPH

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

Zabeer Nabi

Room D

Sandhia Naik

Omar Sadaah

From pathogenesis to novel therapies

Riccardo Troncone

Probiotics and peptidases

Julio Bai

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

Luciana Guzmán

Refractory celiac disease and other controversial situations

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

Samuel Nurko

Melquicedec Vargas Sandoval

Nutritional approach in DGBI disorders

Annamaria Staianno

The unavoidable pandemic of DGBI

Carlo De Lorenzo

Neurostimulation in pediatric DGBI

Neha Satucci

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

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)

Mohamed El Guindi

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

Tomonori Yano

Room D

Jiri Bronsky

Justine Turner

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-Dominguez

Room E

Paul Kelly

Aldo Maruy Saito

Diet-microbiota interaction: towards a personalized medicine

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

Gabriel Vinderola

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 Seath

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

Jorge Amil Dias

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

Javier Martin de Carpri

Decisions to make before and after luminal surgery

Anne Griffiths

Room B

Roid Kholy

Miriam L Cuarterolo

MASLD: new approaches to understanding the disease in children and its management

Ulrich Baumann

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

Teduglutide use in children as a treatment for short bowel syndrome

Verónica Bussoni

Long term follow up of short bowel syndrome

Olivier Goulet

Intestinal transplantation

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 Cazares

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

Saturday 7th december

Room A

Jorge Palacios

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 Martin

SIBO

José Garza

Room B

Sylvia Cruchet

Geoffrey Cleghorn

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

No Gluten, No Milk or FODMAPS diets

Room C1

Thomas Attard

Isabel Rojas

Pediatric polyposis syndromes: an easy guide

Shlomi Cohen

Extracolonic aancer 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

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

Rachael Winter

Room E

Annamaria Staianno

Lucia Escobedo Berumen

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

Desale Yacob

Autism spectrum disorder and gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms