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ESPGHAN Podcast
by ESPGHAN
Stay updated with the latest developments in Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition (PGHN) and get to know the experts behind the research and our organisation. The official podcast of the European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (ESPGHAN) explores cutting-edge studies, practice management strategies, and more. Join us three times a month for insightful interviews and commentary with leading professionals in the field, designed to enhance your knowledge and advance your expertise. Our podcast features specialists from around the world, with a particular emphasis on the European community. This podcast is hosted by the ESPGHAN Education Committee. Disclaimer: Opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the guest invited and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of ESPGHAN. These opinions are based on information and scientific data available at the time of recording and may change as rese
Episodes
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Gaeta F.: Ethics of “Healthy” Claims and Labels: From Enrichment to Sugar Manipulation?
Amazing what one learns in readying oneself for ESPGHAN podcasts! Let me today, folks at home – or folks in office, or folks stuck in traffic, wherever you were when you said, "Right about now a podcast seems like a good idea" – start you on a journey of discovery with and about Dr Francesca…
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Colombel J.F.: Can We Predict and Prevent Crohn’s Disease?
Hello, listeners! Today's guest on the ESPGHAN podcast is Prof Dr Jean-Frédéric Colombel, whose special interest is inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and with whom today we discuss three articles titled: "Neutralizing anti-granulocyte macrophage-colony stimulating factor autoantibodies recognize...
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Furlano R.: Foreign Body Ingestion in Children
Greetings – what child of the 1960s can use that word without becoming a space alien, alighting from an interstellar craft? – "Greetings, Earthlings!" But today, of course, it's greetings to ESPGHAN podcast listeners, those logging in from other planets as well as on this one. The guest today is...
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McLin V.: SLIPS
So many links between liver and brain! Today’s guest on the ESPGHAN podcast is Prof Dr Valérie McLin, a Scots Bruxelloise living and working in Geneva, where at the University Hospital she heads the department of paediatric gastroenterology, hepatology, and nutrition. There she has pursued a...
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JPGN Journal Club September 2026 Paediatric: MASLD, Liver Fibrosis and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes
Jake has chosen for today’s session two studies in metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease – for convenience, henceforward “MASLD”. I’ve added three. Jake’s choices . . . Well. One addresses the question: Can MASLD scoring identify children at high risk of developing Type II...
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Peretti N.: Familial Hypercholesterolaemia
Hello, and welcome to another ESPGHAN podcast! Let’s start by asking if you know a particular German idiom: What does "Leben wie Gott in Frankreich" mean? Literally, "to live like God in France"—but the French themselves describe those deliciously well set up as comme un coq en pâte, a rooster in...
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Koeglmeier J.: Practical Tool in Vegan Diets
Today on the ESPGHAN podcast—hello, listeners! Y’all right?—we’ll address, with the help of Dr Jutta Koeglmeier, of London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, what some persons might call a first-world problem. For millennia the principal issue with nutrition was: Will there be...
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Thomson M.: Effective GI bleeding management and endoscopy
Hello, listeners! Today’s guest on the ESPGHAN podcast is Prof Dr Mike Thomson, who needs no introduction as an expert in paediatric therapeutic endoscopy—whoops! Well, that’s him introduced, then. Prof Thomson trained in Aberdeen, and after ten years knocking about various junior posts in the...
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JPGN Journal Club July 2026: AI in Medicine – From Disease Trajectories to HCC Risk Prediction
Welcome back to ESPGHAN Journal Club! We have another Manager’s Special at the ESPGHAN podcast supermarket – Aisle 2, listeners! Two at once, tag-team interviewing: Prof Dr Carolin Schneider of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, in Aachen (soon to take up a professorship in...
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Grammatikopoulos T.: Portal Hypertension – What Does Baveno Mean for Children?
Welcome back, ESPGHAN podcast listeners! Today’s discussant is Dr Tassos Grammatikopoulos, of King’s College Hospital in London, and today’s theme is portal hypertension in children, an academic interest of Dr G. Tassos, Dr Grammatikopoulos, would you please oblige me at the appropriate moment…
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Annual Meeting 2026: Highlights from Lille with Elena Cernat
Podcast listeners, we’re here today from ESPGHAN with the berry-picked best and freshest of what your society had to offer at its 58th Annual Meeting in Lille from 24 through 27 June. Mind you, “the best” reflects the opinion of our discussant, Dr Elena Cernat – she’s done the culling and the...
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Pop T.: Wilson’s disease
Hello, trouble! Yes, we here at ESPGHAN Podcasting Central mean you, our loyal listener. But you’re only the best kind of trouble, and we’re happy to see you again. Today’s guest is Prof Tudor Pop, from Cluj-Napoca, Romania’s second city. Transylvania, the region in northern Romania in which his...
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Broekaert I.: Gastrostomies and Jejunostomies
Well, would you look at that! Here’s another friend of ESPGHAN podcasting coming by to see what we have for listeners today. Welcome, and settle in for a session with a real mover and shaker, Dr Ilse Broekaert, who oversees ESPGHAN’s educational activities, and who has led efforts to introduce...
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Morris T.: Preventing Metabolic Bone Disease in Children on Home Parenteral Nutrition
Good morning, evening, afternoon — whenever and wherever you may be — ESPGHAN is bringing you another podcast, this one, as we say in Hungary, egy unikum, a one-off and a first for this series. We’ve done gastroenterologists and hepatologists to death, really; it’s long been time for a new start…
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Alcázar López M. & Fiore G.: Microbiotia and Obesity
Mireia Alcázar López and Giulia Fiore are early-career nutrition scientists focusing on the relationship between the gut microbiome and obesity in children. Dr. Alcázar trained at Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Reus campus) in Catalonia, while Dr. Fiore trained at multiple institutions in Milan…
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JPGN Journal Club May 2026: Emerging Insights into Eosinophilic Oesophagitis
Welcome to the third ESPGHAN Journal Club of 2026, with Dr Jake Mann! Jake has chosen for today’s session two studies in eosinophilic oesophagitis – for convenience’ sake, henceforward “EOE”. One describes an interesting rise in instances of diagnosed EOE in two regions of Spain; the other…
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Verduci E. & Koeglmeier J.: Vegan Diet
Dr. Elvira Verduci is a physician and clinical nutritionist at the University of Milan, where she heads the Division of Metabolic Diseases at Vittore Buzzi Children’s Hospital. She maintains a rare-disease registry for congenital defects in amino-acid metabolism and transport and serves as...
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Walker A.: Obesity & Autism
Anna Walker is a specialist paediatric dietitian at Bristol Royal Hospital. She has a diverse international background, having been raised in Finland and educated in the United States, England, and Finland, with professional experience spanning Finland, Norway, England, and Cambodia. Her work...
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Van der Doef H.: Vascular complications after Liver Transplant
Dr. Hubert P. J. van der Doef of Beatrix Children’s Hospital and the University Medical Centre Groningen, The Netherlands, trained in Utrecht and completed a fellowship in paediatric gastroenterology, hepatology, and nutrition at Groningen. He initially worked on cystic fibrosis but has since...
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Vandenplas Y.: Biotics in formula
Prof Dr Yvan Vandenplas, Associate Editor of Nutrients, trained in medicine with specialty training in paediatrics at the Free University of Brussels. From the completion of his paediatric training in 1986, he moved seamlessly into an appointment in 1987 as head of the University Hospital…
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JPGN Journal Club: March 2026: Biomarkers and Risk Stratification for Varices in Children with Portal Hypertension
A round of applause, dear readers: We’ve made it into, good Heavens, 2026! Breasted the tape? Or limped across the finish line? No matter. To mis-quote Scripture, that is of course Stephen Sondheim: We’re still here. Among the “we,” and our lodestar, is Dr Jake Mann. He’s selected two articles…
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Tzivinikos C.: Magnet ingestion
Dr. Christos Tzivinikos graduated in 1999 from the Medical School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. After several years serving as a medical officer aboard ships in the Greek navy, he began specialty training in paediatrics in the United Kingdom in 2005. Further training in...
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Uhlig H.: monogenic IBD: diagnosis, treatment, transition
In 1990, Prof. Holm Uhlig entered the School of Medicine at the University of Leipzig – a city in Saxony with a long and turbulent history. The University, founded in 1409, had survived centuries of upheaval, including the Battle of Leipzig in 1813, when Napoleon’s forces were defeated and King...
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Strozyk A.: Food Ladder
Dr. Agata Stróżyk, a dietitian at the Medical University of Warsaw, shared her expertise on the “food ladder” in both theory and practice, providing insights for clinicians, patients, and families. She addresses questions such as: Could you explain what a food ladder is? What steps does a child...
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Malmberg E.: Celiac disease
Your ESPGHAN podcast team are collecting expertise from as many learnèd, skilled, and experienced paediatric gastroenterologists and hepatologists as possible! Oh, and from dietitians… they’re among the most important links in the chain between gastroenterologist and the universal goal – a…
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JPGN Journal Club January 2026: Coeliac Disease - Current Evidence on Therapy and Diagnosis
Hark! It’s midnight, children dear –Duck! Here comes another year! Well, readers, when this reaches you perhaps we shall all be in 2026, perhaps not; whichever, the New Year’s Eve couplet above may amuse you as you look backward, or forward, and… but who says that time has to be linear? Very...
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Homan M & Giamouris V.: three tricky cases along the new HP guideline
Young ESPGHAN is on a roll! Today one of that group, a representative on the Education Committee, tries his hand at podcast interviewing: Dr Vangelis Giamouris was granted his medical degree at the University of Thessaly, trained in paediatrics in Athens at the Agia Sofia Children’s Hospital, and...
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Bradley K.: ARFID
Greetings from Helsinki, where your ESPGHAN podcast team have taken the opportunity to buttonhole for interviews as many learnèd, skilled, and experienced paediatric gastroenterologists and hepatologists as possible! We haven’t forgotten the allied professions, mind you; this note accompanies for...
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JPGN Journal Club December 2025: Paediatric IBD: Vedolizumab Outcomes & PSC-IBD Histopathology
Happy holidays, everyone! The end of the year… twilight falls in mid-afternoon, there’s frost on the windscreen of a morning, and between mince pies and gingerbread, the supermarket aisles are an absolute menace. But there’s hope: ESPGHAN Journal Club is here to educate, to inform, and to keep…
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Norris H.: Nutrition in the Neonate
Welcome to the ESPGHAN podcast! Yes, it’s another of our series of interviews obtained at the sponsoring organisation’s annual meeting in Helsinki, today with Heather Norris, from Bristol. Ms. Norris trained as a dietitian – went slightly off-piste with two years of education in youth work and...
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Birimberg L. and Massip E.: Gastrointestinal benefits from highly effective modulator therapy in CF
Once again it’s been an unfair contest here in the ESPGHAN podcast-recording studio, little me on one side, on the other Dr. Etna Masip Simó of Valencia and Dr. Liron Birimberg-Schwartz of Jerusalem – you listeners have ringside seats for the battle, which of course Dr. Birimberg-Schwartz and Dr....
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JPGN Journal Club November 2025 - Pediatric Liver Transplantation and Sarcopenia
It’s ESPGHAN Journal Club, and—good heavens—it’s already November! Where did 2025 go? Lovely crisp sunny days, duvet-plus-blanket nights with very clingy cats, and foggy mornings with a fire in the woodstove to warm the kitchen and boil the kettle. After a nice cup of tea, let’s go shuffle-kick...
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Guz A.: long-term management in pediatric chronic intestinal failure
From Petah-Tikva, Israel – no map in your head? A tad east of Tel Aviv – at Schneider Children’s Medical Center, Dr. Anat Guz-Mark came to Helsinki for the ESPGHAN annual meeting, where this interview was recorded. Her particular interest and expertise lie in intestinal failure and its therapies,...
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Grammatikopoulos T. & Ackermann O.: Portal Hypertension
Joint work, or collective work, holds out substantial promise for advancing our understanding of how pathophysiology evolves over time and how best to alter the course of disease. ESPGHAN fosters such collaboration – the podcast that this note accompanies is a good example. A recently established...
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JPGN Journal Club October 2025: Advances in Pediatric Endoscopy and Ulcerative Colitis Prognostics
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...
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Hadzic N.: Alpha 1 antitrypsin deficiency
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,...
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Griffiths A.: Initial Workup for PIBD Diagnosis and Classification
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…
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JPGN Journal Club September 2025: Innovations in Genetic Diagnosis and Therapy for Pediatric Liver Disease
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…
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Gottrand F.: Long-Term Follow-Up of Esophageal Atresia
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...
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Staiano A.: ESPGHAN 100st Podcast Episode
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,...
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JPGN Journal Club August 2025: Portal Hypertension Management and Genetic Insights in CHAPLE Disease
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...
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Scarallo L.: Putting intestinal ultrasound into practice
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…
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Wine E.: New IBD Drugs in the Pipeline and How to Place Them
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…
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JPGN Journal Clulb July 2025: Neonatal Gut Interventions and Stem Cell Therapy for Monogenic IBD
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...
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Assa A. & Giamouris V.: three tricky cases along the new UC guideline
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...
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Olen O.: Cancer Risk in PIBD
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...
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JPGN Journal Club June 2025: Pediatric Bowel Wall Sonography and Long-Term Outcomes in MASLD
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.…
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Canani B.: Ultraprocessed Food and Chronic GI Disease
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...
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Annual Meeting 2025 - Highlights from Helsinki with Elena Cernat
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…
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Meyer R.: gastrointestinal manifestations of food allergy
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...
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Stay updated with the latest developments in Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition (PGHN) and get to know the experts behind the research and our organisation. The official podcast of the European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (ESPGHAN) explores cutting-edge studies, practice management strategies, and more. Join us three times a month for insightful interviews and commentary with leading professionals in the field, designed to enhance your knowledge and advance your expertise.
Our podcast features specialists from around the world, with a particular emphasis on the European community.
This podcast is hosted by the ESPGHAN Education Committee.
Disclaimer: Opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the guest invited and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of ESPGHAN. These opinions are based on information and scientific data available at the time of recording and may change as rese
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