Program 2025

Registration and Opening ceremony

SESSION 1: Hepatology I

• 09:00 – 09:15 – State of the art lecture – Incretin based therapy in MASLD
  Case-based learning with up-to-date guidelines
• 09:15 – 09:30 – Frailty in liver cirrhosis
• 09:30 – 09:45 – How to recognize silent liver disease in different settings?
• 09:45 – 10:00 – PSC and UC therapy – where do we stand?
• 10:00 – 10:15 – Autoimmune hepatitis and overlap syndrome – how will we manage it?
• 10:15 – 10:30 – Cholestasis in pregnancy – when two lives are at stake

PARALLEL SESSION: Hands-on (Workshop)

Workshop Endoscopy I

Coffee break

SESSION 2: Endoscopy

• 11:00-11:15 –  State-of-the-art: Training in third space – what does it take?
  Case-based learning with up-to-date guidelines
• 11:15 – 11:30 –  How to manage endoscopic complications after adverse events
• 11:30 – 11:45 – Management of EoE
• 11:45 – 12:00 – MAPS-3: what is new
• 12:00 – 12:15 – Endoscopic management of achalasia
• 12:15 – 12:30 – Endohepatology – one-stop-shop
• 12:30-12:45 – Management of dysplasia and early gastric cancer

LUNCH

SESSION 3: Round table – Malpractice and what a young doctor should know

Fresenius Symposium

Coffee break

SESSION 4: IBD I

• 15:30 – 15:45 – State of the art – New drugs on the horizon
  Case-based learning with up-to-date guidelines
• 15:45 – 16:00 – A young person’s guide to IBD
• 16:00 – 16:15 – Inside-Out or Outside-In Strategy: How to Integrate the role of
  intestinal ultrasound (IUS) in detecting stenotic complications in CD
• 16:15 – 16:30 – Current Status of Image-Enhanced Endoscopy in
• 16:30 – 16:45 – Is Disease Clearance Synonymous with IBD Cure
• 16:45-17:00 – IBD and Pregnancy

PARALLEL SESSION: Hands-on (Workshop)

Ultrasound II

SESSION 5: Functional disorders

• 09:00 – 09:15 – State of the art – Research pathway: how to build a career in
  neurogastroenterology
  Case-based learning with up-to-date guidelines
• 09:15 – 09:30 – Excess of gas? Deflate your fears towards bloating
• 09:30 – 09:45 – When Acid Strikes Back: Tackling Refractory GERD by myself
• 09:45 – 10:00 – When the Gut Rebels: Managing chronic abdominal Pain
• 10:00 – 10:15 – Starving for Relief? The difficulty of Functional Dyspepsia

PARALLEL SESSION: Hands-on (Workshop)

Endoscopy III

Coffee break

SESSION 6: Pancreato-biliary

• 11:00 – 11:15 – State-of-the-art: EUS-guided tissue acquisition
  Case-based learning with up-to-date guidelines
• 11:15 – 11:30 – Endoscopy simulators and their use in training in pancreato-biliary endoscopy
• 11:30 – 11:45 – Biliary drainage in malignant distal biliary obstruction
• 11:45 – 12:00 – Endoscopic or surgical management of ampullary neoplasia
• 12:00 – 12:15 – Management of pancreatic cystic neoplasms
• 12:15 – 12:30 – Antibiotic prophylaxis in endoscopic procedures

PARALLEL SESSION: Hands-on (Workshop)

Ultrasound III

Lunch session

POSTER SESSION

SESSION 7: Hepatology II

• 14:30-14:45 – State of the art – Patricia Burra
  Case-based learning with up-to-date guidelines
• 14:45-15:00 – “Drug-induced liver injury – how to diagnose? When to perform a biopsy? How to manage?”
• 15:00 – 15:15 – How should we manage patients with chronic hepatitis B and C receiving immunotherapy?
• 15:15 – 15:30 – Treatment of refractory ascites
• 15:30 – 15:45 – ACLF and liver transplantation – when?
• 15:45 – 16:00 – Progressive decompensation of cirrhosis: prognostic implications and therapy beyond transplantation
• 16:00 – 16:15 – Multivisceral transplantation- indications and outcomes

PARALLEL SESSION: Hands-on (Workshop)

Endoscopy IV

Coffee break

SESSION 8: IBD II

• 16:30 – 16:45 – State of the art – TBA
  Case-based learning with up-to-date guidelines
• 16:45 – 17:00 – IBD and MAFLD
• 17:00- 17:15 – Disease activity assessment with endoscopic and histologic scores in clinical practice
• 17:15 – 17:30 – Non-classical patterns of IBD
• 17:30 – 17:45 – IBD and primary immunodeficiencies
• 17:45 – 18:00 – IBD: Advanced Therapy Selection Guide

Poster session II

Presentation of best abstracts and closing of conference