ESPGHAN Webinars

In the past year, we have experienced an increased demand for virtual education due to our limitations with face-to-face meetings.
In 2021, ESPGHAN has thus launched a webinar format for everyone who wants to continue their education in PGHN despite the COVID pandemic and related restrictions. Due to the success of our series we will continue the webinars. Please monitor this webpage for respective updates.

Registration

Who can apply?
The webinar is open for members and non-members and all age groups. Participants need to register online. A registration link for each webinar can be found in the table below the respectve header.  Participation is free of charge. Registration by email can no longer be accepted.

Upcoming

March 2025 - Endocrinology Meets Hepatology: Unveiling the Liver's Hormonal Secrets

UPDATED DATE: March 18, 2025

Time: 17.30 - 18.30 CET

Topic: Endocrinology Meets Hepatology: Unveiling the Liver's Hormonal Secrets

Speakers: Hubert van der Doef and Mirjam van Albada

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Join us for an enlightening webinar, "Endocrinology Meets Hepatology: Unveiling the Liver's Hormonal Secrets." This session will explore the fascinating interplay between the liver and hormone metabolism, shedding light on how liver disease affects hormonal balance. Gain insights into the latest advancements in diagnosing and managing related conditions from two specialists: Hubert van der Doef, a pediatric gastroenterologist and hepatologist, and Mirjam van Albada, a pediatric endocrinologist.

March 2025 - Treatment refractory GERD

Date: March 05, 2025 

Time: 17.00 - 18.00 CET

Topic: Treatment refractory GERD

Speakers: Michiel van Wijk, NL

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This webinar is part of the Young ESPGHAN Webinar Series.

March 2025 - Pediatric Liver Transplants: Navigating Ethical Dilemmas in Complex Cases

Date: March 10, 2025

Time: 17.00 - 18.00 CET

Topic: Pediatric Liver Transplants: Navigating Ethical Dilemmas in Complex Cases

Speakers: Norman Junge, DE // Steffen Hartleif, DE

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This webinar is part of the Young ESPGHAN Webinar Series.

April 2025 - The role of machine learning and AI in Pediatric GI

Date: April 23, 2025 

Time: 17.00 - 18.00 CET

Topic: The role of machine learning and AI in Pediatric GI

Speakers: Sana Syed

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This webinar is part of the Young ESPGHAN Webinar Series.

June 2025 - Unraveling the Gut-Brain Connection: Microbiome's Role in DGBIs

Date: June 11, 2025 

Time: 17.00 - 18.00 CEST

Topic: Unraveling the Gut-Brain Connection: Microbiome's Role in DGBIs

Speakers: TBC

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This webinar is part of the Young ESPGHAN Webinar Series.

 

July 2025 - Lifesaving Nutrition: The Role of Enteral Feeding in Pediatric Intestinal Failure

Date: July 09, 2025 

Time: 17.00 - 18.00 CEST

Topic: Lifesaving Nutrition: The Role of Enteral Feeding in Pediatric Intestinal Failure

Speakers: TBC

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This webinar is part of the Young ESPGHAN Webinar Series.

Archive

January 2025 - Breaking the Cycle: Innovative Approaches to Managing Intractable Constipation

Date: January 29, 2025
Time: 17.00 - 18.00 CET

Topic: Managing Intractable Constipation

Speakers: Maria Giovanna Puoti, IT

This webinar is part of the Young ESPGHAN Webinar Series.

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January 2025 - The MCT diet in gastroenterological conditions

Date: January 30, 2025
Time: 16.00 -17.00 CET

Speakers:  Dr Jutta Köglemeir  Elena Banci 

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About the webinar:

The MCT-diet is used in several severe pediatric gastroenterological conditions. It is a challenging diet but may be an important part of the medical management. Dr Jutta Köglmeir will give an overview on conditions where the MCT-diet may be used and dietitian Elena Banci will present the outline of the diet.

About the speakers:

Dr Jutta Köglemeir, a member of the ESPGHAN Nutrition committee, is a Consultant paediatric Gastroenterologist and the clinical lead for the Unit of Nutrition and Intestinal Failure Rehabilitation at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London. She is also actively involved in the British Society of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (BSPGHAN) where she has been on council in the past as chair of the nutrition and intestinal failure working group (2016-2019) and since 2022 as chair of the education working group. Elena Banci, member of the ESPGHAN AHP committee, is a clinical Paediatric Dietitian at the University Meyer Children’s Hospital of Florence. Her main field of work are IBD, Intestinal failure, children with neurological impairment and enteral nutrition. She is actively involved in the Italian Society of Pediatric Nutrition, Gastroenterology and Hepatology.

December 2024 - Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis in Children with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: An ESPGHAN Position Paper from the Hepatology Committee and the IBD Porto Group

Date: December 10 2024 /
Time: 17.30 -18.30 CET

Speakers:Patrick van Rheenen; Marianne Samyn; Richard Russell 

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About the webinar:

Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is an uncommon condition in childhood-onset inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) with severe outcomes. Until recently, there was no consensus between paediatric hepatologists and paediatric IBD experts how to manage children with PSC-IBD. Representatives of the ESPGHAN Hepatology Committee and the Paediatric IBD Porto Group collaborated on an evidence-supported position paper. During this webinar, the approach to diagnose, monitor, and treat children with PSC-IBD will be discussed.

December 2024 - Restricted and Avoidant Eating in Children: Recognition and Management

Date: December 19, 2024
Time: 17.00 - 18.00 CET

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About the speaker: Kathryn Bradley

Dr Kathryn Bradley is a Clinical Psychologist in the UK. She works with children with physical health conditions and restricted eating at Derbyshire Children's Hospital. She chairs a Special Interest Group for Psychologists working with ARFID in children.

About the webinar:

Restricted eating can affect children both with and without chronic illness, and can have wide ranging impacts on physical health, growth and psychosocial wellbeing. This webinar aims to aid clinicians of all disciplines in recognising when children's eating difficulties may signify Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) and some practical steps for supporting families. Recommendations for best practice will be discussed along with an overview of psychological approaches used by specialists

November 2024- Unveiling the gluten challenge

Date: November 20, 2025
Time: 17.00 - 18.00 CET


Speakers: 
Alfonso Rodriguez Herrera  (Kilkenny, Ireland)
Francesco Valitutti (Perugia, Italy)

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October 2024 - Follow-up in celiac disease

Date: October 24, 2024
Time: 17.00 - 18.00 CEST

Speakers: 
Luisa Mearing, NL
Elin Hard af Segerstad, NO

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September 2024 - Pharmacological treatment options in Portal Hypertension and clinical scenarios
Date: September 10, 2024
Time: 17.00-18.00 CEST.

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Following the success and positive feedback we had form the 1st webinar on PHT, the exec. Committee of the Portal Hypertension (PHT) Special Interest Group (SIG) are hosting their second webinar on the topic. We would like to invite members to join us in a session with lectures and interactive discussion on pharmacological management of PHT, the role of NSBB and incorporate these talks into also some interesting clinical cases. Members of different experience and background are welcomed to this online event.

This webinar is part of a series of similar combined educational and clinical management events around PHT, that our SIG will be offering to our members.

Speakers:

  • Dr. Maria Mercadal-Hally, Pediatric Hepatology and Liver Transplantation Unit, Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain
  • Dr Marumbo Mtegha, Children’s Liver Unit, Leeds Children's Hospital, Leeds, UK
September 2024 - Food insecurity: implications for child and public health

Date: September 04, 2024

Time: 17.00-18.00 CEST.

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About the webinar: Despite great improvements in child health and nutrition over the last decades, the world faces a perilous and uncertain future. Twin crises of climate change and conflict are causing major disruptions to food security and are affecting millions of children worldwide. This is disastrous for child health given the most immediate risks associated with malnutrition: disease and death. It also has major implications for future adult and public health. This talk will discuss causes, consequences and above all will try to highlight potential ways forward to navigate difficult times ahead.

Speaker: Dr. Marko Kerac

Dr Marko Kerac, Clinical Associate Professor in Global Child Health & Nutrition, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

https://profiles.lshtm.ac.uk/2675-Marko-Kerac

Marko is a paediatric and public health doctor from the UK. He started in global nutrition in 2003, working in Malawi when the first CMAM (Community Management of Acute Malnutrition) programmes were being rolled out. He later returned to Malawi for his PhD. has been at LSHTM since 2014, combining research with teaching on the ‘Nutrition for Global Health’ MSc.  Main current research areas include infant malnutrition (MAMI: Management of small, nutritionally at-risk Infants aged <6 months and their Mothers) and long-term effects of early-life malnutrition.

June 2024 - Dietary treatment of eosinophilic esophagitis

Date: June 05, 2024
Time: 17.00-18.00 CEST.
Registration deadline: 4th of June, 2024.

 

Speaker: Lucy Jackman


About the webinar:

Dietary treatment is one of the main treatment options for eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE), offering a steroid free treatment option. However, implementing it in practice can be confusing, challenging and variable between centres. Recent published guidelines have standardised the dietary treatment of EoE. We will explore these, practical tips for managing children with EoE and key considerations.

About the presenter:

Lucy Jackman is a clinical dietitian based at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, UK.  She is a member of the British Society of paediatric gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition BSPGHAN working group for EoE and is co-author on a number of published papers by the working group.

May 2024 - NAFLD to MASLD; what’s in a name? The importance of a nomenclature change and what this means for paediatricians.

Date: May 02, 2024

Time: 17.00-18.00 CEST.

Registration deadline: 1st of May, 2024.

About the webinar: A recent Delphi process resulted in a change in nomenclature for NAFLD to the term MASLD (metabolic-dysfunction associated steatotic liver disease). This has significance for children with the condition and for their clinicians. Dr Bart Koot represented ESPGHAN in the consensus development and will speak about the process and the advantages of the name change for paediatrics. Dr Jake Mann will delve into the nuances that separate out the paediatric condition from the adult one and the relevance of our approach to children with steatotic liver disease. He will present a multi-society statement endorsing the nomenclature change highlighting issues relevant to paediatrics.

Speakers: Dr. Jake Mann and Dr. Bart Koot

April 2024 - Complementary feeding – When, What and How?

Date: April 11, 2024

Time: 17.00-18.00 CEST.

Registration deadline: 10th of April, 2024.

About the webinar:

The introduction of foods other than milk to the infant diet is a topic of much debate among healthcare professionals, policymakers and parents. Timing is an important consideration and when to introduce complementary foods has been widely discussed. What should be given is also a topic of interest. Are all foods equal? Do some deserve special consideration? For example, foods containing allergens. More recently the question of how to feed infants during this transitional period has been raised. The traditional way, where infants are offered foods by spoon, and feeding progresses through stages from purees to mashed then lumpy foods has been rejected by some parents and caregivers. Baby-led weaning is now favoured by some. But does this meet the needs of growing infants? All this and much more including new guidance on complementary feeding from the World Health Organisation will be presented and discussed at our upcoming webinar where you will have the chance to be updated by our expert speaker and discuss with colleagues from across Europe and beyond.

Information on the speaker:

Dr Julie Lanigan RD PhD FBDA. Paediatric Dietitian and associate Professor (Hon) at UCL GOS Institute of Child Health and Lecturer in Dietetics, Programme lead for the APP Masters in Paediatric Dietetics, University of Plymouth Julie Lanigan, is a paediatric dietitian specialising in paediatric weight management and an academic researcher with more than 25 years experience investigating the effects of early nutrition on long-term health in children. Julie is a founding director of TrimTots Community Interest Company set up with UCL Business to develop evidence-based interventions for the prevention and treatment of childhood obesity. Current projects include multi-centre infant feeding trials and studies involving cultural adaptations and evaluations of the Planet Munch Healthy Lifestyle Programme – an intervention for prevention of obesity in preschool children. Julie has published widely. She is a regular invited speaker at national and international conferences and lectures in childhood nutrition at UCL and the University of Plymouth.

March 2024 - Next Generation Enteral Nutrition Therapy if Paediatric Crohn’s Disease

Date  March 04, 2024
Time: 17:00- 18:00 CET

Registration deadline: March, 03. 2024

Speaker: Konstantinos Gerasimidis

Desciption: The presenter will discuss the use of enteral nutrition in the various aspects of Crohn’s disease management including exclusive enteral nutrition with and without elimination diet in management of active luminal disease, as maintenance therapy post-EEN induction, for peri-surgical optimisation and as combination therapy with other advance therapies.

About the webinar:

We will discuss the use of enteral nutrition in the various aspects of Crohn’s disease management including exclusive enteral nutrition with and without elimination diet in management of active luminal disease, as maintenance therapy post-EEN induction, for peri-surgical optimisation and as combination therapy with other advance therapies.

About the presenter:

Professor Konstantinos is a Professor of Clinical Nutrition at the School of Medicine, University of Glasgow and is a Dietitian by training. He explores the interaction between diet and the gut microbiome in all age IBD and has a particular interest in dietary management of CD and UC. He has been faculty in various committees and working groups including ESPGHAN, ECCO and ESPEN and currently leads a research team of 23 members.

January 2024 -The current state of evidence for the Crohn's Disease Exclusion Diets and additional novel dietary therapies in IBD.

Date: January 16, 2024. 17:00-18:00 CET

Registration deadline:  15th of January 2024 

Speakers: Rotem Sigall Boneh

Description: EEN is the gold standard therapy in Crohn’s Disease however, there are new dietary therapies emerging. This webinar covers these new therapies, especially the CDED that is growing in use all over Europe, helping both GI’s and clinical dietitians to gain knowledge in these intriguing therapies.

About the webinar:

EEN is considered the gold standard dietary therapy for CD; however, implementing it over the long term can be challenging. The CDED demonstrated better tolerance with comparable efficacy in achieving clinical remission. Cumulative data have been published to support the use of CDED in various conditions, different populations, and diverse outcomes. In this presentation, we will explore the growing body of evidence surrounding the CDED and other innovative dietary interventions.

About the presenter:

Rotem Sigall Boneh is a clinical and research dietitian based at Wolfson Medical Centre in Holon, Israel. She is the founder of D-ECCO, the dietitian committee within the European Crohn and Colitis organization. Additionally, she is a co-founder of the Crohn's Disease Exclusion Diet (CDED) and has played a pivotal role in leading clinical trials in this field. Currently, she is working on her Ph.D. at Amsterdam University, focusing on the role of CDED in the management of Crohn's Disease.