Scheers I.: pancreatitis in children

Dr Alex Knisely today is speaking with Prof Isabelle Scheers of Louvain, Belgium, on pancreatitis in children. She has proposed three articles for discussion – from a coalition that she led, drawing on collaborators in Canada, the United States, and almost the full bank of Eurovision Song Contest participant nations, a summary and review, Autoimmune Pancreatitis in Children : Characteristic Features, Diagnosis, and Management ; a personal “position paper”, Inherited Pancreatic Exocrine Insufficiency and Pancreatitis : When Children Transition to Adult Care ; and a rara avis case report with others from her home institution, Cinacalcet Sustainedly Prevents Pancreatitis in a Child with a Compound Heterozygous SPINK1 / AP2S1 Mutation. One woman, but a pancreatic-disease panopticon, and if you don’t know that last word, hello Google ! She begins with the satisfaction through successful diagnosis and treatment that came her way when, as a junior doctor, she sorted out disease in the subject of her case report ; she takes us through how her need to educate herself to deal with the patients referred to her with pancreatic problems, an ever-growing stream, led her abroad for specialty training as she established a network of not only referrers but also advisers ; and she sketches for us how she became a pancreatologist who, through collaboration with other paediatricians and with adult pancreatologists, has helped us all by describing and defining what is to be expected in various types of pancreatitis in childhood, and, of course, how children in this as indeed in so many other things differ from adults. Follow along, and remember, after the podcast is over : Shared experience, shared through ESPGHAN, brings us all much further than any of us can go alone, and not just in pancreatitis! Prof. Scheer´s favourite song: Papaoutai - Stromae https://open.spotify.com/track/34dx8DACTJsc3rsJdaEIQw?si=5d88d0fe16a9437e ESPGHAN favourite Songs can be found on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0YIHKjxITLEm9XNyHyypTo