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Healio to report live from NASPGHAN 2019
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CHICAGO — This weekend, Healio Gastroenterology and Liver Disease will provide live coverage at the 2019 North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition Annual Meeting.
The meeting is a multifaceted event that offers different ways for attendees to learn about the latest in the world of treating children with a spectrum of digestive diseases, Benjamin D. Gold, MD, FAAP, FACG, president-elect of NASPGHAN, told Healio Gastroenterology and Liver Disease.
“The meeting has something for everybody,” he said. “[It] has state-of-the-art lectures from dynamic speakers, as well as concurrent sessions and hands-on workshops, many of which will examine problems that we deal with in pediatric GI from a multidisciplinary perspective.”
Wednesday Courses
The meeting officially began Wednesday with two separate courses. The first was a comprehensive, single-topic symposium focused on liver disease called, “Single Topic Symposium: Chronic Liver Disease Management for the Gastroenterologist.” Gold said the course was designed to benefit everyone from the hepatology expert to the generalist who might have a patient who previously underwent liver transplantation. The second was a hands-on endoscopy course held at the American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy's Interactive Training and Technology Center, known as the “Course in Hands-on Innovation and Methods in Endoscopy” or CHIME.
Postgraduate Course
Thursday features a comprehensive postgraduate course, run by course directors Jennifer Strople, MD, MS, of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Maria Oliva-Hemker MD, of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, that will include a wide range of topics such as celiac disease, management of foreign bodies, the use of cannabis in GI disease and novel approaches to the management of inflammatory bowel disease, cystic fibrosis, feeding disorders and pancreatic disease.
Scientific Meeting
The scientific meeting begins in earnest Friday morning with, Jack Gilbert, PhD, from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine giving the William F. Balistreri Lecture titled, “Getting more mileage out of our magnificent microbiome.”
The scientific meeting includes a mix of abstract presentations and symposia lectures on everything from refractory IBD and NASH to quality improvement and advocacy for pediatric GI patients in Washington, D.C. Gold said some of the sessions have panels that were created to address a common medical problem from a multidisciplinary approach.
“There is no meeting, at least in North America, that has the NASPGHAN annual meeting’s comprehensive, didactic and educational approach that utilizes of more standard lectures to multidisciplinary panels, hands on endoscopy and teaching sessions, and that covers the field of pediatric gastroenterology, hepatology, pancreatology and nutrition as this meeting does in a 4 day period of time,” Gold said. “In an impactful, short period of time, the annual scientific meeting, post graduate course, single topic symposium and method in endoscopy allow the attendee to get a sample, if you will, of everything that is going on, from bread-and-butter pediatric GI to the state-of-the-art science in digestive, liver, and nutritional disease in the pediatric patient.”
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