Sunday, 17th August 2008

14:00 - 16:00 h

Satellite Symposium

Biogaia

Probiotics in pediatrics - clinical experience with Lactobacillus reuteri – Chairman: Bo Lonnerdal

• Effect of probiotic infant formulas on protection from infection in child care centers - Zvi Weizman
• Probiotics in the control of Helicobacter pylori infection - - Ruggiero Francavilla
• Prevention of IgE-associated eczema using probiotics - Thomas Abrahamsson
• Infantile colic and Lactobacillus reuteri - Francesco Savino

16:00 - 18:00 h

Satellite Symposium

Danone Institute
GUT, FAT, Iron and and brain: where are we? • chaired by Ricardo Uauy and Virginia Stallings and comprizing Dennis Bier, Emanuel Lebenthal and Olivier Goulet

• Evolving issues: Omega 3 & PUFAS • Sheila Innis • Bert Koletzko • Bruce Holub 
• Cross talk between gut and brain • Sιbastien Bouret • Dennis Bier - Gary Beauchamp
• Classical review: Issues of Iron • Stanley Zlotkin - Patricio Peirano - Steban Carmuega
• Wrap up & conclusion • Virginia Stallings

19:30 h

Opening Ceremony

Monday, 18th August 2008

7:00 - 8:00 h

Poster Distinction - Walking Breakfast

7:15 - 8:00 h

Meet the Professor

8:00 - 10:00h

Symposia 1

Metabolic disorders and liver: novel diagnostic and therapeutic
• Jeong Kee Seo • James Heubi • Humberto Soriano • Ron Sokol

Portal hypertension’s complication: early diagnosis key to prevention and treatment
• Jean Ville de Goyet • Deirdre Kelly • Surinder Yachha • Themis da Silveira

What’s new in diagnosis and treatment of gastro-esophageal reflux?
• Samuel Nurko • Marina Orsi • Yvan Vandenplas

Chagas disease lessons from Latin America: early diagnosis and treatment
• James Maguire • Janine Ramsey • RJ Viotti • Alejandro Luquetti

Genes and environment in celiac disease: what is the best way to diagnose and understand the full spectrum of this condition?
• David Branski • Ivor Hill • Edward Hoffenberg • Riccardo Troncone

Pre and probiotics: what is their real effectiveness in inflammatory, allergic and infectiouns in the gastro-intestinal diseases?
• Hania Szajewska • Oscar Brunser • Shafique Sarker • Stefano Guandalini

10:00 - 10:30h

Coffee Break

10:30 - 12:00 h

Plenary 1
Explaining the global trends in inflammatory bowel disease
• Francisco Sylvester • Ann Griffiths 

12:00 - 14:00 h

Lunch - Satellite Symposium

Abbott

• Frontiers in the resolution of feeding disorders - Benny Kerzner - Kim Milano - Linda Goldstein - Thomas Linscheid

Nestlι

• Personalized Nutrition during Infancy: What are the possibilities? - B. Koletzko - A. Walker - B. Lonnerdal

Ferrer

• Diarrea Aguda en el Siglo XXI - Isabel Polanco. Bradley Sack, Mary Penny, Pedro Gutierrez-Castrellon, Eduardo Salazar-Lindo

Martek

• LCPUFA΄S the Science: Information your patient should know - Cristina Campoy - Carlo Agostini - Ricardo Uauy

Updated Guidelines on Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease and Helicobacter pylori in Children
• Global Pediatric Definition of GERD
• ESPGHAN/NASPGHAN GERD Diagnosis & Treatment Guidelines
• NASPGHAN/ESPGHAN H. pylori Management Guidelines

14:30 - 16:00 h

Poster Session Presentation - Discussion

16:00 - 18:00 h

Symposia 2

Acute liver failure, life support, liver transplantation: what’s going on now (the inside story)
• Anil Dhawan • Mirta Ciocca • Rob Squires • Ujjal Poddar

New concepts for feeding preterm infants
• Jacques Rigo • Patricia Mena • Sheila Innis

Can we effectively prevent and treat food allergies?
• Aderbal Sabrα • David Hill • Erika Isolauri • Magdalena Araya

Helicobacter pylorii and stomach cancer: what is the relationship? Is it preventable?
• Armando Madrazo • Benjamin Gold • Sixto Recavarren • Nicola Jones

Rotavirus infection in children: what are the complications, how effective is vaccine prevention, at what price?
• Roger Glass • Alfredo Guarino • Alexandre Linhares • Miguel O’Ryan

Zinc in child nutrition: effects on immunity, prevention of stunting, management of diarrhea
• Manuel Ruz • Mary Penny • Zulfi Bhutta

18:00 - 18:30 h

Coffee Break

18:30 - 20:00 h

Plenary 2
Present and future of liver transplantation
• Carlos Esquivel • Giorgina Mieli Vergani 

20:30 - 22:30 h

Satellite symposium

Tuesday,19th August 2008

7:00 - 8:00 h

Poster Distinction - Walking Breakfast 

7:15 - 8:00 h

Meet the professor

8:00 - 10:00 h

Symposia 3

Pathogenesis and natural history, therapy and prevention of viral hepatitis and hepatic carcinoma
• Josι Oubiρa • Mei-Hwei Chang • Solange Heller

Explaining good and bad outcomes in liver transplantation: can we improve adherence?
• John Bucuvalas • Anupam Sibal • Imventarza Oscar • Sue McDiarmid

New horizons in necrotizing enterocolitis: basic and clinical aspects
• Joseph Neu • Christophe Dupont • Per Sangild

New and emergent infectious agents in diarrheal disease in children: novel diagnostic and therapeutic tools
• Mitchell Cohen • Aldo Lima • Alan Phillips

New insights in the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease: implications for treatment
• Harland Winter • Maria M. Oliva-Hemker • Gigi Veereman-Wauters

Obesity and the gastrointestinal tract: gut hormones and appetite, gut absorption blockers, surgical treatment of obesity
• Angel Gil

10:00 - 10:30h

Coffee Break

10:30 - 12:00 h

Plenary 3
The gut cell interacts with the intestinal microflora: clinical implications
• Alan Willian Walker • Alessio Fassano 

12:00 - 14:00 h

Lunch - Satellite Symposium

Abbott

• Advances in pediatric nutrition innovation

Nestlι

• Use of stable techniques in paediatric nutrition research

14:30 - 16:00 h

Poster Session Presentation - Discussion

16:00 - 18:00 h

Symposia 4

Autoimmune hepatitis and overlap syndrome: how to identify and treat them?
• Ron Sokol • Gilda Porta • Diego Vergani • Ruben Quirσs

Prevention and control of obesity in children: industrialized countries, transitional countries, societal and individual actions.
• Fima Lifshitz • Mauro Fisberg • Josι Augusto Taddei

Relevance of allergic colitis in infants and children: controversy in diagnosis and treatment
• Jorge Amil Dias • John Udall • Mauro Morais • Sibylle Koletzko

Update on endoscopic therapies: gastroesophageal reflux surgery, endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography, esophageal dilation, variceal ligation, ostomies
• Rafael Guerrero • Mike Thomson • Samy Cadranel • Mervin Ament

Selected aspects of nutritional support of hospitalized patients: new lipid emulsions, organ specific nutrition, nutritional support in liver transplantation
• Debora Duro • Adriana Fernandez • Olivier Goulet

Extra pulmonary manifestations of cystic fibrosis: liver and pancreatic disease, altered growth and development
• Jacques Sarles • Deirdre Kelly • Peter Durie • Virginia Stallings

18:00 - 18:30 h

Tea Break

18:30 - 20:00 h

Plenary 4
Basic science to clinical practice (regulation of gastrointestinal development, stem cells)
• Michel Lentze • Jorge Bezerra 

20:30 - 22:30 h

Satellite symposium

Wednesday, 20th August 2008

7:00 - 8:00 h

Poster Distinction - Walking Breakfast 

7:15 - 8:00 h

Meet the Professor

8:00 - 10:00 h

Symposia 5

Eosinophilic esophagitis: is there consensus in the pathology, diagnosis and treatment of this condition?
• Chris Boey • Steffen Husby • Glenn Furuta

Gut transplantation: indications, outcomes, future directions
• Jon Vanderhoof • Stuart Kaufman • Samuel Kocoshis • Girish Gupte

New developments in endoscopy: capsule endoscopy, double balloon enteroscopy, echoendoscopy
• Ernest Siedman • Manoel Ernesto Gonηalves • Stanley Cohen

Cholestasis: New insight in immuno pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment
• Steven Martin • Peter Lewindon • Toshihiro Muraji • Philip Rosenthal

Motility disorders: what is new and where are we going to?
• B Li • K Lindley • Rudolph Colin

Infections of the liver (non hepatitis viruses): liver abscess (amoebic/bacterial), liver granuloma, fungal and other rare infections/echinococcosis
• Argemiro D’Oliveira • Anita Verma • Huma Cheema • Seng Quak

10:00 - 10:30 h

Coffee Break

10:30 - 12:00 h

Plenary 5
Early nutrition and lifelong health
• Peter Gluckman • Berthold Koletzko

12:00 - 14:00 h

Lunch - Satellite Symposium

SHS

Danone Baby Nutrition - Childhood nutrition: impact on global health • Christian Braegger

• Burden of childhood undernutrition and intervention strategies •Zulfiqar Bhutta
• Prebiotics in infant diet: a possible tool to modulate the immune response • Guido Moro
• Nutritional approaches to reduce common diseases in infancy: first results of a European multi-centre study • Pieter Sauer

14:30 - 16:00 h

Poster Session Presentation - Discussion

16:00 - 18:00 h

Symposia 6

New WHO guidelines for the management of severe malnutrition: hospital and community based
• Ana Maria Aguilar • Tahmeed Ahmed • Marvin Ament

Rome III criteria for functional gastrointestinal disorders: critical assessment/are we ready for Iguassu I?
• Annamaria Staiano • Carlo Di Lorenzo • Miguel Saps • Jan Taminiau

Novel aspects in diarrheal disease (bacterial enterotoxin, viral enterotoxin, enteric neurotransmitters, autoimmune neonatal diarrhea)
• Francisco Josι Penna • Mathie Lorrot • Ove Lundgren • R. Bradley Sack

Non-alcoholic steato hepatitis (NASH) and metabolic syndrome: pathogenesis and novel approaches to prevention and treatment
• Valerio Nobili • Jeffrey Schwimmer • Luis Moreno • Stavra Xanthakos