13:00-14:00 Gathering & Registration
(Light lunch will be served at the Exhibit Hall)
14:00-14:00- Opening Remarks
14:10- 16:00 Session 1
Chair: Michael Wilschanski, Akiva Fradkin
14:10-14:40- Can nutrition prevent disease?
Zamir Halpern, Director of research Center of Gastroenterology, Tel Aviv Sourasky
Medical Center
14:40-14:50- Cytomegalovirus infection in pediatric acute severe ulcerative colitis - a multicenter case-
controlled study from the Pediatric IBD Porto group of ESPGHAN.
Shlomi Cohen, Pediatric Gastroenterology Unit of "Dana-Dwek" Children's Hospital, Tel Aviv Sourasky
Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
14:50-15:00- Phenotypic features and long-term outcomes of pediatric inflammatory disease patients
With arthritis and arthralgia
Firas Rinawi, Institute of Gastroenterology, Nutrition and Liver Diseases, Schneider Children's Medical
Center of Israel, Petach Tikva, Israel
15:00-15:10- Amylase, lipase and white blood cell count at presentation are predictors of severity of
acute pancreatitis in children
Tut Galai, Department of Pediatrics and Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition Clinic,
Dana-Dwek Children's Hospital, Tel-Aviv Medical Center, Israel
15:10-15:20- Expression of MiRNAs Related to Obesity and Diabetes in Human Milk
Regina Golan-Gerstl, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
Hadassah Ein-Kerem Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
15:20-15:30- Characterization and biological function of milk-derived miRNAs.
Regina Golan-Gerstl, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
Hadassah Ein-Kerem Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
15:30-15:40- Risk of Colectomy in Patients with pediatric-onset Ulcerative Colitis
Firas Rinawi, Institute of Gastroenterology, Nutrition and Liver Diseases, Schneider Children's Medical
Center of Israel, Petach Tikva, Israel
15:40-15:50- Serum GLP1 and GLP2 basal and carbohydrate stimulated profiles and tissue receptor
expression in pediatric celiac disease.
Efrat Broide, Pediatric Gastroenterology Unit, Assaf Haroffeh Medical Center
15:50-16:00- Constipation Guidelines in Children
Tzili Zangen, Pediatric Gastroenterology unit, Wolfson Medical Center
16:00-16:30- Coffee break and visit to the exhibit hall
16:30- 18:30 Session 2
Chair: Avishay Lahad, Hussein Shamali
16:30-17:00- Chronic Intestinal Pseudoobstruction in Children
Nikhil Thapar, Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and UCL Institute
of Child Health, United Kingdom
17:00-17:10- The natural history of pediatric-onset IBD-unclassified and prediction of Crohn's disease
reclassification: A 27-year study
Firas Rinawi, Institute of Gastroenterology, Nutrition and Liver Diseases, Schneider Children's Medical
Center of Israel, Petach Tikva, Israel
17:10-17:20- Short and long-term surgical outcomes and pouch function following proctocolectomy and
pouch formation in paediatric UC: a multicentre- retrospective cohort study from the Porto IBD
working group of ESPGHAN
Esther Orlanski-Meyer, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Israel
17:20-17:30- The Relation of Simple Endoscopic Score in Crohn’s disease and Magnetic Resonance
Enterography in Children: Report from the ImageKids study
Batia Weiss, Pediatric Gastroenterology Unit, Edmond and Lily Safra Children's Hospital, Tel Hashomer,
Israel
17:30-17:40- Anti-TNFα treatment following surgical resection for crohn's disease is effective despite
previous pharmacodynamic failure
Raanan Shamir, Chairman, Institute of Gastroenterology, Nutrition and Liver Diseases
Schneider Children's Medical Center
17:40-17:50- Concentration of Anti-HBs in Previously Immunized Celiac Patients – Does a Gluten Free
Diet Make a Difference?
Eyal Zifman, Pediatric Gastroenterology Clinic, Pediatric Division, Meir Medical Center, Kfar-Saba, Israel
17:50-18:00- PREVENTCD, the Israeli cohort in 2017
Corina Hartman, Institute for Gastroenterology, Nutrition and Liver Diseases, Schneider Children’s
Medical Center
18:00-18:10- Inverse correlation between Helicobacter pylori colonization rates and pediatric
overweight: a preliminary study
Hadar Moran Lev, Tel Aviv, Israel; Pediatric gastroenterology, Dana Dwek Children's Hospital, Tel Aviv,
Israel
18:10-18:20- Vedolizumab in Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Diseases: a retrospective multi-center
experience from the Paediatric IBD Porto group of ESPGHAN
Oren Ledder, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
18:20-18:30- High Throughput Sequencing of T cell Receptors from Pediatric UC Patients Reveals Distinct
Tissue-specific Repertoires
Dror Shouval, Pediatric Gastroenterology Unit, Edmond and Lily Safra Children’s Hospital, Tel
Hashomer