PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME AND CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Thursday, 10 September 2009

09:00 - 10:40 | Scientific Session 1 - Genetics


09:00 Pediatric IBD genes

Subra KUGATHASAN (Milwaukee, IL, USA)

09:30 Epidemiology of pediatric IBD

Dominique TURCK (Lille, France)

10:00 Environmental risk factors - relevance for pediatric IBD

Sibylle KOLETZKO (Munich, Germany)

10:30 Oral presentation 1

Coffee break and visit of the exhibition 10:40 - 11:00

11:00 - 11:30 | State of the Art Lecture


11:00 Interaction genes - environment

Jean-Pierre HUGOT (Paris, France)

11:30 - 13:10 | Scientific Session 2 - Innate/Adaptive Immunity


11:30 DC functions in IBD

Edward NIEUWENHUIS (Rotterdam, The Netherlands)

12:00 Autophagy and pediatric IBD

Ramnik XAVIER (Boston, MA, USA)

12:30 IL23/IL17 pathway in IBD

Fiona POWRIE (Oxford, UK)

13:00 Oral presentation 2

Lunch and visit of the posters 13:10 - 14:30

14:30 - 16:10 | Clinical Session 1 - (PART 1) Specific care for pediatric IBD


14:30 Quality of life in pediatric IBD

Adrian THOMAS(N/A, UK)

15:00 Treatment compliance and adolescence

Maria OLIVA-HEMKER (Baltimore, USA)

15:30 Stress in IBD

David RAMPTON (London, UK)

16:00 Oral presentation 3

Coffee break 16:10 - 16:30

16:30 - 18:20 | Clinical Session 1 - (PART 2) Specific care for pediatric IBD


16:30 And how to treat severe UC ?

Simon TRAVIS (Oxford, UK)

17:00 Perianal and internal fistula - how to treat

Gert van ASSCHE (Leuven, Belgium)

17:30 IBD Registries: triumphs and challenges

Jeff HYAMS (Hartford, USA)

18:00 Oral presentation 4

18:10 Oral presentation 5

Friday, 11 September 2009

09:00 - 10:40 | Clinical Session 2 - Therapeutic strategies for pediatric CD


Duo step up-top down therapy and mucosal healing :

09:00 The view of the adult Gastroenterologist

Séverine VERMEIRE (Leuver, Belgium)

09:30 The view of the pediatric Gastroenterologist

Arie LEVINE (Tel Aviv, Israel)

10:00 Clinical Cases and treatment strategies

Paolo LIONETTI (Florence, Italy)

David MOORE (Adelaide, Australia)

10:30 Oral presentation 6

Coffee break and visit of the exhibition 10:40 - 11:00

11:00 - 11:30 | State of the Art Lecture


11:00 New perspectives of biologicals in (pediatric) IBD

11:30 - 13:10 | Clinical Session 3 - Complications of IBD and related treatment


11:30 IBD and lymphoma

Laurent BEAUGERIE (Paris, France)

12:00 HSTCL - does it matter for pediatric IBD ?

Salvatore CUCCHIARA (Rome, Italy)

12:25 Opportunistic infections in IBD

Gigi VEEREMAN-WAUTERS (Brussels, Belgium)

12:50 Oral presentation 7

13:00 Oral presentation 8

Lunch and visit of the posters 13:10 - 14:30

14:30 - 16:00 | Clinical Session 4 (PART 1)
Therapeutic strategies for pediatric CD : Evidence-based controversies


14:30 Induction therapy: EN, Steroids, Biologicals ?

Anne GRIFFITHS (Toronto, Canada)

14:50 Maintenance therapy: Immunomodulation - when and how long ?

Rob HEUSCHKEL (Cambridge, UK)

15:10 And if Biologics change the natural history of CD ?

Bob BALDASSANO (Philadelphia, USA)

15:30 Discussion

Coffee break and visit of the exhibition 16:00 - 16:30

Clinical session 4 (PART 2)

16:30 - 18:15 | Therapeutic strategies for pediatric CD : Evidence-based controversies


16:30 DUO: New treatment strategies :

Targeting the innate immune system

Claudio FIOCCHI (Cleveland, USA)

Targeting the adaptive immune system

Matthieu ALLEZ (Paris, France)

17:30 Oral presentation 9

17:40 Oral presentation 10

17:50 How and why is pediatric IBD different from adult IBD ?
Hankje ESCHER (Rotterdam, NL)

Saturday, 12 september 2009

09:00 - 10:40 | Scientific Session 3 - (PART 1) Bacteria and IBD


09:00 Antibacterial deficiency as causative for CD?

09:30 What drives the flora to become pathogenic?

Philippe SEKSIK (Paris, France)

10:00 Microvascular inflammation - relevance for CD?

10:30 Oral presentation 11

Coffee break 10:40 - 11:00

11:00 - 12:00 | Scientific Session 3 (PART 2) - Bacteria and IBD


11:00 The most burning and yet unanswered questions in IBD

Marc LEMAN (Paris, France)

12:30 - 12:30 | Closing remarks

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