ESPGHAN Podcast

At the watershed between 2024 and 2025, some readers will have remembered this couplet: “Hark! It’s midnight, children dear. / Duck – here comes another year!” In paraphrase, then, duck – here comes another instalment of JPGN Journal Club, led by Dr. Jake Mann! Before we move along to the articles to which Jake wants us to pay attention, have a glance at what ESPGHAN is doing for you at  https://w...

An old friend today – scratch that, a  familiar  friend – familiar to those who have followed these podcasts since their inception :  Welcome to the studio from Brussels, Dr Patrick Bontems, head of “interventional paediatrics” at Hôpital Universitaire des Enfants Reine Fabiola !  This is his second appearance as an ESPGHAN guest, and we’re delighted to have him back to speak on aspects of percuta...

Three for two today ; one interviewer and two guests, Dr Warren Hyer and Ms Fiona Cargill-Marin in this ESPGHAN podcast, with its theme the management of polyposis syndromes in paediatric patients :  Not so much the from-what-age and the what-to-look-for as the origin of the guidelines first put forward by ESPGHAN going on five years ago and spearheaded by Dr Hyer, who is among the leaders of a we...

Happy holidays, everyone! Here’s JPGN Journal Club, led by Dr Jake Mann. Don’t forget ESPGHAN’s other educational offerings:  https://www.espghan.org/knowledge-center  – on 2025.I.15 the GI Winter School, on I.30 the Monothematic Conference on Steatotic Liver Disease in Children, and on III.05 the GI Immunology Master Class:  From pathogenesis to clinical management of EGID, coeliac disease, and I...

The ESPGHAN podcast series today hopes to make you familiar with some of the work of Dr Sissel Moltu, a polyglot and polymath – she’s of Norwegian and USAnian heritage, was reared in Norway, took her medical degree in Freiburg, worked in England – who combined neonatology with gastroenterology when in Oslo University Hospital frustration at parenteral-alimentation – associated liver disease in sho...

Prof Dr Binita Kamath of first the United Kingdom (London’s King’s College Hospital), then the United States (Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia), then Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children – and now, wait for it, the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia again ! – speaks with us today in the ESPGHAN podcast series.  She has seen diagnosis of Alagille syndrome (AGS) move from clinicomorphologic asse...

December’s almost here, can you believe it ?  Here’s JPGN Journal Club, led by Dr Jake Mann !  Don’t forget ESPGHAN’s other educational offerings :   https://www.espghan.org/knowledge-center  – on XII.27 the MOOC Enteral Nutrition in Preterm Infants conference, on 2025.I.01 the Young ESPGHAN Mentorship Programme, on I.15 the GI Winter School, and on I.30 the Monothematic Conference on Steatotic Li...

The ESPGHAN podcast series today addresses three points that have defined the recent career of Dr Cristina Campoy Folgoso, professor and chair of paediatrics at the Medical University of Granada, Spain.  These ar : How maternal nutritional status can determine the offspring's growth and body composition during childhood ; which interventions during pregnancy may effectively prevent childhood obesi...

Today’s ESPGHAN podcast series guest, Mrs Alison Dinning, is an academic dietitian at the Children’s Hospital of Bristol in the west of England.  Her interests centre on the care of children with short-bowel syndrome (SBS), with particular pleasure taken in successful shifts from parenteral to enteral alimentation – hard work, but if the family can be brought on board, then with use of breast milk...

November:  Knocking on the door, or already inside and making itself at home ?  Whatever. It’s JPGN Journal Club, led by Dr Jake Mann! Don’t forget ESPGHAN’s other educational offerings:   https://www.espghan.org/knowledge-center  – in particular on XI.11 the Winter School on Basic Science and Translational Research; on XI.15 a Masterclass on Transition from Paediatric to Adult Healthcare in Patie...

Today’s ESPGHAN podcast interviews Dr Jan de Laffolie, at present in Giessen (Germany), who has a strong interest in both inflammatory bowel disease and in “artificial intelligence”, or AI – that is, the sifting of data for correlations, not only those that are apparent to humans unassisted, call it to the naked eye / the naked mind, but also those that elude us mortals when we are on our own.  Wo...

Turmoil after Hitler’s war brought together the parents of today’s guest, Dr Marguerite Dunitz-Scheer ; she was born in the United States, reared in Switzerland, and with a marriage became Austrian.  She might have become a musician by profession – that was in her family’s blood, and she attended a conservatory as a teenager – but instead, true to the principle of everything, everywhere, and all a...

October JPGN Journal Club, led by Dr Jake Mann !  As always, keep in mind ESPGHAN’s other educational offerings :   https://www.espghan.org/knowledge-center  – in particular on X.25 a Monothematic Conference on Paediatric Gastric Disease ; on XI.11 the Winter School on Basic Science and Translational Research ; and on XI.15 a Masterclass on Transition from Paediatric to Adult Healthcare in Patient...

Interviewed today in the ESPGHAN podcast series is Dr Orit Waisbourd-Zinman, of Israel, who as a fellow in hepatology at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia was offered the chance to take part in studies of how “biliatresone”, a compound isolated from Australian plants ( Dysphania  sp.), might disrupt formation of extrahepatic biliary structures, as was postulated when sheep during drought ate...

Dr Johanna (“Henkje”) Escher speaks with me for ESPGHAN’s podcast series today.  She works in learning how best to pass along the care of paediatric patients when, rather arbitrarily, they are declared to be adults.  All very well, no adolescent wants to be a child forever, but . . . well, paediatric disorders, that is, those that manifest themselves in early life, cover a far wider spectrum than...

JPGN Journal Club, led by Dr Jake Mann, is here again for August. As always, keep in mind ESPGHAN’s other educational offerings : https://www.espghan.org/knowledge-center – in particular on IX.12, AHP Summer School ; IX.21, the Young Investigator Forum ; IX.25, the 5th Liver Transplant School ; and X.25, a Monothematic Conference on Paediatric Gastric Disease. For today’s discussion Jake has chose...

Interviewed today in the ESPGHAN podcast series is Dr Julie Lanigan of University College London, working at several hospitals in London and lecturing in Plymouth, a dietitian whose interest is in complementary feeding (once called “weaning”, or the introduction of foods other than milk to an infant’s diet).  Not just foods, but  feeding , taking part in the activities that define the family – gai...

Bergamascheria ancora!   Yes, the Bergamo team have made available for a podcast yet another member, Dr Lorenzo Norsa, a professor of paediatrics there. Dr Norsa has been a fellow in paediatric gastroenterology in Israel and in France.  In Paris he became well-versed in treatment of short bowel syndrome, working with the prominent Necker team . . . perhaps their publications form a  suite Bergamas...

It’s JPGN Journal Club, led by Dr Jake Mann, in your electronic- device speakers, with the July podcast offering. Don’t forget to check out what ESPGHAN has available from July onward, here at https://www.espghan.org/knowledge-center -- in particular on IX.12, AHP Summer School, IX.21, the Young Investigator Forum, and on IX.25, the 5th Liver Transplant School. Jake Mann has chosen for today’s dis...

The ESPGHAN podcast guest today is Dr Paolo Marra – the interviewer, as our producer, Selma Ertl already has told you, is same old same old me – to round out the team, a hat-tip to Manuel Schuster, engineer. Let’s get starty with the party! So, Dr Marra – an interventional radiologist, and like everyone across from whom I sit in these sessions, amazingly young to have accomplished so much.  He is...

Interviewed today in the ESPGHAN podcast series is Hon. Prof. Dr. med. Alexandra Papadopoulou from Greece, Chair of the ESPGHAN Working Group and Special Interest Group on Eosinophilic Gastrointestinal Disorders for the last six years, Head of the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition of the First Department of Pediatrics of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and H...

JPGN Journal Club reporting for duty, sah! And mem! Here’s the spoken word about the written word . . . in a glorious June, with Heaven and Earth well and true in tune, as the poem goes.  Don’t forget to check out what ESPGHAN has on offer from July onward, available at  https://www.espghan.org/knowledge-center  ! Dr Jake Mann has chosen for today’s discussion two heavy-hitting publications.  The...

ESPGHAN presents today an encounter with Prof Amit Assa, who like so many of those who have agreed to take part in these podcasts has filled all the posts of the medical-school and medical-administrative  cursus honorum , steadily leaping upward from institution to institution.  As of now he is at the Institute of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Shaare Zedek Medical Centre, in Jerusalem, Israel (affi...

Today’s ESPGHAN podcast offers the opportunity to become acquainted with the effects of a revision in nomenclature.  Decades ago, stout – in both senses – Mormon matrons were vastly offended to learn that the form of steatohepatitis from which they suffered was histopathologically superimposeable upon that owing to ingestion of ethanol to excess ; the Word of Wisdom, a revelation vouchsafed in 183...

JPGN Journal Club reports from the Milan venue of ESPGHAN’s 2024 annual meeting, seizing the opportunity to learn from those rarely in Europe – as today with Prof Binita Kamath, in transit between Toronto and Philadelphia professionally, who along with Dr Jake Mann will tag-team her way down the field shooting for goal with two articles of interest (Winter  et al. ’s Biomarkers predicting the effe...