PROGRAMME
Updated 13.1.2025
| TIME | SESSION |
| 7.30am | Registration opens |
| 8.30am | Welcome Professor Richard Gearry and Professor Andrew Day - Co-convenors |
| IBD before diagnosis – what does the future hold? | |
| 8.35am | Preclinical IBD: Insights from the past, trends for the future Professor Jonas Halfvarson |
| 9.05am | Post operative IBD recurrence. Mechanisms, prevention and treatment Professor Mark Silverberg |
| 9.35am | Discussion |
| 10.00am | Morning tea |
| What use is genetics for the IBD clinician? | |
| 10.30am | How monogenic IBD informs treatment today Professor Aleixo Muise |
| 11.00am | Advances in the genetics of IBD and why clinicians should be interested! Professor Dermot McGovern |
| 11.30am | Discussion |
| 12.00pm | Lunch |
| IBD therapies – what's new and what's coming? | |
| 1.00pm | Ulcerative colitis Professor Ed Loftus |
| 1.30pm | Crohn’s disease Professor Geert d’Haens |
| 2.00pm | Discussion |
| 2.30pm | Afternoon tea |
| The future of IBD – where will we be in 20 years time? | |
| 3.00pm | The next 20 years in IBD: Disease modification, passive monitoring, and breakthrough management strategies Professor David Rubin |
| 3.30pm | IBD care into the future - The "How" as opposed to the "What" Professor Jane Andrews |
| 4.00pm | Discussion |
| 4.30pm | Close of day one |
| 5.45pm | Conference Dinner TSS Earnslaw Cruise & Walter Peak High Country Farm |
| TIME | SESSION |
| IBD and surgery – joints and drains | |
| 8.30am | Top-down surgical resections in ileocaecal CD: really? Professor Paulo Kotze |
| 9.00am | The evolution of surgical anastomotic technique after Ileocolic resection in Crohn’s disease Professor David Clark |
| 9.30am | Discussion |
| 10.00am | Morning tea |
| Cholangiopathy conundrums | |
| 10.30am | PSC epidemiology and management Dr Jeffrey Ngu |
| 11.00am | Endoscopic approaches to PSC Professor Paul Fockens |
| 11.30am | Discussion |
| 12.00pm | Lunch |
| Nutritional management in IBD: putting out the fire of inflammation with formula and food | |
| 1.00pm | Nutritional Management of active Crohn disease: EEN and beyond Professor Andrew Day |
| 1.30pm | Eat well, heal well: Nutrition strategies for IBD surgery Dr Catherine Wall |
| 2.00pm | Discussion |
| 2.30pm | Closing speech |
| 2.45pm | Conference concludes |