IRISH SOCIETY OF GASTROENTEROLOGY, SUMMER MEETING, RADISSON HOTEL, LITTLE ISLAND, CORK, 23-24 MAY 2024
PROGRAMME
08.00 Sign in/Tea/Coffee/Visit pharma
08.55 Opening Address by Prof Orla Crosbie, President, Irish Society of Gastroenterology
09.00 Best Clinical and Scientific Abstract Session
10.00 Patient safety in endoscopy
Dr Manmeet Matharoo, Consultant Gastroenterologist, St Mark’s Hospital and Academic Institute, London, UK
10.30 Irish experience with simulation training for endoscopy
Prof Glen Doherty, Consultant Gastroenterologist, St Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin
11.00 Tea/Coffee/Visit pharma
11.30 Themed Oral Presentations –Endoscopy and inflammatory bowel disease
12.30 The role of the ‘oral-gut-liver axis’ in cirrhosis: Challenges of antimicrobial resistance and opportunities for novel therapeutics
Dr Vishal Patel, Consultant Hepatologist, King’s College Hospital, London, UK
14.00 Themed Oral Presentations –Hepatology and gastroenterology
15.00 ISG AGM and Awards Ceremony
15.30 Faecal microbiota transplantation in different clinical conditions: Ecological and mechanistic considerations
Prof Jens Walter (PhD), Professor of Ecology, Food, and the Microbiome, School of Microbiology and APC Microbiome Ireland, University College Cork
16.00 Tea/Coffee/Visit pharma
16.30 Evolving concepts of mucosal healing as a target in inflammatory bowel disease
Prof Subrata Ghosh, Chair and Head of the Department of Medicine, University College Cork (sponsored by Takeda)
17.15 Close of Meeting
20.00 Conference Dinner THURSDAY 23 MAY
FRIDAY 24 MAY
08.45 IL-23 antagonists in IBD
Prof Laurent Peyrin-Biroulet , Consultant Gastroenterologist, Lorraine University, France (Virtual Meeting – Sponsored by AbbVie)
9.30 Clinical Case Presentations
Alcohol misuse and health consequences, Session 1
10.30 Liver transplant for alcohol-related liver disease in Ireland: What’s new in 2024
Dr Audrey Dillon, Consultant Hepatologist, St Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin
11.00 Tea/Coffee/Visit pharma
Alcohol misuse and health consequences, Session 2
11.30 Why alcohol public health policy matters to gastroenterologists
Prof Alastair MacGilchrist, Chair, Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems (SHAAP), Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Scotland
12.00
Dismantling the barriers to early transplantation for alcohol-related liver disease
Prof Michael Curry, Director of Hepatology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre, Boston, US
12.30 Panel Discussion on Alcohol Misuse and Health Consequences
13.00 Close of Meeting and Lunch
Cork
Radison Hotel, Little Island,