ESPGHAN Podcast

It’s ESPGHAN Journal Club, in your thoughts and in your ears! Thanks for tuning in to learn what Dr. Jake Mann thinks are the raisins in the loaf for this month. Jake’s choices for today: Hoskins BJ et al. (Indianapolis, Indiana, USA), J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr – Pediatric endoscopic mucosal resection: A 10‐year single‐center experience. Kulecka M et al. (Cork and Galway, Ireland; Málaga, Spain...

Prof. Dr. Nedim Hadžić – Dino attended the ESPGHAN annual meeting in Helsinki. Of course, your enterprising podcast team, lurking there to glean the thoughts and insights of the best and the brightest, snapped him up for an interview! His training and early professional work were in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, but when he obtained a research fellowship in London, his supervisors soon recognised...

Inflammatory bowel disease: Important to assess, to treat, and to follow correctly, as Dr Anne-Marie Griffiths of Toronto confirmed in an interview recorded in Helsinki at the ESPGHAN annual meeting. She poses for us three questions: What are some of the consequences for the patient when caregivers mislabel the type of inflammatory bowel disease? What purpose is served by thorough diagnostic evalu...

Welcome back to ESPGHAN Journal Club! Give us your full attention, please – even if that means pulling into a lay-by or, even more demanding, setting down your drink. The thoughts and insights of Dr. Jake Mann are deffo worth the trouble. Jake’s choices for today: From J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr, by Tai CS et al., with authors from Taiwan, Thailand, and Korea: “A prediction model for genetic cho...

Welcome to the world of oesophageal atresia and its treatment, where Prof Gottrand is eminent. (A quick hat-tip: His devotion to patient care was distinguished by the Premier prix mondial de l’atrésie de l’oesophage, awarded in June, 2019, at the World Congress on Oesophageal Atresia.) Surgical repair of oesophageal malformations yields palliation rather than cure, with a bewildering mix of dysmot...

La professoressa Annamaria Staiano è una figlia di Napoli, is a daughter of Naples, and to the city of her birth, medical education, and present professorial chair in paediatrics at the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II she has ever been loyal – aside from several years in St. Louis, Missouri, where she undertook subspecialty training in paediatric gastroenterology. She today is the gue...

Summer! So hot... and everywhere is parched. The hosepipes are trickling in the twilight, both at dawn and at dusk – but is it true that watering one’s garden in the heat of the day injures the plants? Wherever you are, dear reader and listener, let’s hope it’s somewhere shady, and that on the table next to where you’ve chosen to lounge and listen is a tall glass of something with ice cubes and gi...

Today’s guest is Dr Luca Scarallo, one of the rising stars in the constellation of experts in inflammatory bowel disease. Dr Scarallo – I’m tempted to call him simply “Luca,” as he was born in 1993, which makes him impossibly young – comes from Benevento, lying east and south of Naples. That city, his birthplace, has a history as impossibly long as Luca is impossibly young. It flourished under the...

Dr Eytan Wine was graduated from the School of Medicine at Tel Aviv University in 1998, with training in paediatrics at Wolfson Medical Center in Holon, Israel, followed by specialty training in gastroenterology, hepatology, and nutrition at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, where he also earned a PhD degree for studies in bacterially induced intestinal inflammation. His first position as...

You’ll never guess who’s across the table from me today – well, across the miles, since we’re encountering one another via ZOOM, but either way, you’ll never guess. It’s JPGN Journal Club again with... wait for it... have you marked your score sheet, folded it in quarters, and dropped it into the sealed box? No? Too late now – because it’s Dr Jake Mann! How many of you guessed right? Jake’s Picks...

Today’s podcast is a change of pace. It showcases not only Prof Dr Amit Assa, offering his expertise in approaches to treatment of paediatric ulcerative colitis, but also Dr Vangelis Giamouris, a member of Young ESPGHAN who sits on the Education Committee. Dr Giamouris has put his head over the parapet: not your usual interviewer, but instead Vangelis will shoot questions at Prof Assa; Prof Assa w...

A short hop from Stockholm to Helsinki, site of the 2025 ESPGHAN annual meeting, where this interview with Prof Ola Olén was recorded – in Finland, or East Sweden, as it was known until 1809, when the Treaty of Fredrikshamn / Hamina ceded both Finland and parts of both North and West Bothnia to Russia… Only in 1917 was the Grand Duchy of Finland pried away from the fragmenting Russian empire, and,...

Greetings from Helsinki, capital of yet another nation in which you have to watch your sushi! Boreal circumpolar dining for pescatarians… ring up another aetiology of Vitamin B12 deficiency, and check your erythrocytes’ mean corpuscular volume when you get home. At JPGN Journal Club, with Dr. Jake Mann, reaching you today from ESPGHAN’s annual meeting, we uniformly are alert against diphyllobothri...

Greetings from Helsinki, where your ESPGHAN podcast team has taken the opportunity to buttonhole as many learned, skilled, and experienced paediatric gastroenterologists and hepatologists as possible for interviews! This note accompanies a conversation recorded there with Dr. Roberto Canani, an expert in paediatric food allergy. In this podcast, however, he steps away from what might be considered...

Hot off the press – fresh from Helsinki – your ESPGHAN podcast team has interviewed Dr. Elena Cernat, a paediatric gastroenterologist originally from Romania, via Spain, and now working in Leeds. Dr. Cernat has handpicked six interesting abstracts from this year’s ESPGHAN annual meeting to discuss with us (she found many more, of course, but podcast time constraints – you’ll understand). She expla...

Dr Rosan Meyer, reared and educated in South Africa and for some years active in London as a paediatric dietitian, is the guest of ESPGHAN today.  Her particular interest lies in the Protean gastrointestinal manifestations of food allergy and how to intervene to reduce or to eliminate them.  Today she asks us to consider :     -- Are feeding difficulties adequately recognised and treated in childr...

Hello! The JPGN Journal Club, led by Dr. Jake Mann, is back — in your speakers, your earbuds, or maybe even over the airport tannoy… well, probably not the last one. Anyway, it's good to be back in touch. Please visit  https://www.espghan.org/knowledge-center  to explore current offerings, and don't forget ESPGHAN’s annual meeting, taking place May 14–17 in Helsinki. This session’s discussion pape...

Dr. Steffen Hartleif was reared and educated in Bremen, one of the city-states in the Hanseatic League, famous for maritime trade; the son of a town and a culture that turned their backs on the land and opened their arms and hearts to the sea. Rejecting this proud heritage, he fled to southwestern Germany for medical education—almost as far from saltwater as a German can go—and has stayed there, w...

We are talking to Dr. Nataša Dragutinović, until recently of Belgrade’s University Children’s Hospital, about the difficulties — but, yes, also the joys — of training and working as a paediatric hepatogastroenterologist in Serbia, a nation shunned by the European Union since the Yugoslav Wars of the early 1990s. Resources are scant; health-care systems are underdeveloped; opportunities to travel a...

Spring! The snowdrops are in their glory, the crocuses are a gaudy carpet, at least as this note is being compiled. Little darling, it’s been a long, cold, lonely winter, but here comes – no, not the Sun, instead, JPGN Journal Club, led by Dr Jake Mann. Please visit  https://www.espghan.org/knowledge-center  to examine the offerings, and don’t forget the Helsinki annual meeting, May 14-17, of ESPG...

Today in the ESPGHAN podcast series we hear from Dr Carolina Gutiérrez Junquera of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid on eosinophilic oesophagitis (EOE).  Dr Gutiérrez Junquera passed in her training through the Complutense University of Madrid and its affiliated hospitals.  After a fellowship in the San Francisco bay area, she went home to Spain to develop her interest in various aspects of EOE...

We hear today in our ESPGHAN podcast from Dr Rotem Sigall-Boneh of Israel’s Institute of Gastroenterology, Nutrition and Liver Diseases, Schneider Children’s Medical Centre, Petach-Tikva, and the Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv – sorry, the “Dr” is a few months away ; she’s earning a PhD (University of Amsterdam), and it’s in the bag, I expect – who has spent the last decade app...

Are we all recovered from January, of all months the most Monday-ish? Experience might teach us how to cope with, dear Lord, the first of three more months of winter. But no. Instead, the older one becomes, the more burdensome January is. Well, take heart: In the wonderland of JPGN Journal Club, led by Dr. Jake Mann, as the accompanying podcast is recorded, we’re deep into February. Listeners, kee...

This gem on the ESPGHAN string of pearls interviews Dr Oren Ledder, who is at once an Ozzie and an Izzie – an Australian who migrated to Israel, where he now directs the paediatric endoscopy service at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem.  He today speaks on small-bowel stricture in inflammatory bowel disease, a focussed chat dealing with three questions in particular :   1.   Which patients...

Prof Dr Deirdre Kelly is today’s ESPGHAN podcast series guest,  speaking on the long-term care of paediatric allograft-liver patients and the findings gleaned from protocol-biopsy studies.  These have uncovered inflammation and fibrosis that are not clinically apparent ; although shifts in immunosuppressive regimen can ablate inflammation, fibrosis persists.  (These findings come from patients who...