ESPGHAN Podcast

About ESPGHAN Podcast

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 research in the field advances. New Episodes 1st, 10th  and 20th of the Month. For feedback, contact us: office@espghan.org (http://office@espghan.org/) | Playlist: ESPGHAN favourite Songs can be found on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0YIHKjxITLEm9XNyHyypTo?si=62ab5e3e33434312) https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0YIHKjxITLEm9XNyHyypTo (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0YIHKjxITLEm9XNyHyypTo) Producer: Selma Ertl, MBA | Host: Dr. Alex Knisely | Recording: Manuel Schuster

Publisher

ESPGHAN

Category

health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

17 Mar 2022

Latest episode

9 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

140 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   9 Oct 2026

   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 post-translational glycosylations on granulocyte macrophage-colony stimulating factor years before diagnosis and predict complicated Crohn's disease"; "Prediction and prevention of inflammatory bowel disease"; and "Prediction and prevention of inflammatory bowel disease: A call to action", listed in order of their publication. (A précis of this podcast, posted at the ESPGHAN website, has full bibliographic detail.) Before taking up those articles, though, perhaps a bit of information on Prof Colombel is in order. Born in 1956 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, on the English Channel, he studied medicine in Amiens and climbed the academic ladder in Lille, where at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Lille, Lille University Hospital, he rose to lead the department of hepatogastroenterology. Then, after only two years in that post, came a caesura: In 2013 he emigrated to New York, to the Upper East Side of Manhattan, where since then at Mount Sinai Medical Center he has led an IBD research-and-treatment group. Nearly sixty years of loyalty to the Hauts-de-France – what can have happened to prompt him to turn his back on his native soil? Well, people lead complicated lives, and Prof Colombel will have had his reasons to abandon moules frites, carbonade, and Maroilles. For today, however, we might set that aside and instead pose the questions: What in his analyses of mucosal immunity in IBD led to the conclusion that IBD can be predicted? If IBD can be predicted, can IBD be prevented? Prof Colombel has those answers for us, and we need only listen to learn. Literature Lee S-H et al. Prediction and prevention of inflammatory bowel disease: A call to action. Gastroenterology. 2026 Feb;170(2):233–239. doi:10.1053/j.gastro.2025.09.042. Epub 2025 Dec 18. PMID: 41410638. PMCID: PMC12862785. Lopes EW et al. Prediction and prevention of inflammatory bowel disease. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2025 Feb;23(3):396–405.e1. doi:10.1016/j.cgh.2024.05.047. Epub 2024 Jul 10. PMID: 38996831. Mortha A et al. Neutralizing anti-granulocyte macrophage-colony stimulating factor autoantibodies recognize post-translational glycosylations on granulocyte macrophage-colony stimulating factor years before diagnosis and predict complicated Crohn's disease. Gastroenterology. 2022 Sep;163(3):659–670. doi:10.1053/j.gastro.2022.05.029. Epub 2022 May 24. PMID: 35623454. PMCID: PMC10127946. Prof. Jean-Frédéric Colombel favourite song: Mistral gagnant” – Renaud (https://open.spotify.com/track/1MOSRjdAbUhvLNnHCdUEL5?si=3c27323977914271) ESPGHAN favourite Songs can be found on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0YIHKjxITLEm9XNyHyypTo?si=62ab5e3e33434312): https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0YIHKjxITLEm9XNyHyypTo (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0YIHKjxITLEm9XNyHyypTo)

2. 

   19 Sept 2026

   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 Prof Dr Raoul Furlano, a wearer of many hats. Most important among them is perhaps that of a member of the Guild of the Golden Star, the Zunft zum goldenen Stern, active since 1398 as the brotherhood of barber-surgeons in the city and canton of Basel. He also has sat since 2014 as member for Gross-Basel Ost in the Grand Council of the city and canton of Basel, representing the Liberal Democratic Party there. (I've visited the party's website: They seem decent sorts, if to my tastes "liberal" misrepresents their stances... but any published political programme has as its central principle, of course, only Pro bono, contra malum.) Finally, in accord with the Milizprinzip of Swiss direct participatory democracy and very much as a side-job, he is head of paediatric gastroenterology and paediatrician-in-chief at the University Hospital of Basel. For consideration today, Prof Furlano proposes three articles on aspects of endoscopy to address foreign-body ingestion: Thomson M et al., "Paediatric gastrointestinal endoscopy: European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition and European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy guidelines"; Tringali A et al., "Pediatric gastrointestinal endoscopy: European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE) and European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition (ESPGHAN) guideline executive summary"; and Mubarak A et al., "Diagnosis, management, and prevention of button battery ingestion in childhood: A European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition position paper." Before the listeners pause the podcast to dig out the original articles and to read along, what is the difference between the first two articles? They were published simultaneously in 2017, their author lists are largely the same: Why both of these two? These two articles include recommendations for dealing with ingestion of a variety of foreign bodies, whilst the third, from 2021, addresses only button-battery ingestion. Scuttlebutt has it that ESPGHAN has commissioned an assessment of endoscopy in foreign-body ingestion. Well, at this point listeners don't have access to a publication of the findings of that assessment. What is Prof Furlano in a position to say about those findings and about how the stances taken by ESPGHAN differ from those in the articles that he has set before us? (A quick note, listeners: Bibliographic information on the three articles is included in the précis of this podcast that can be found on the ESPGHAN website.) With that, it's off to the races! Foreign-body ingestion: What, where, how, and when! And maybe, as lagniappe, more about Swiss politics and guild Carnival parades.. Prof Furlano´s favourite song: Andrea" – Fabrizio De André (https://open.spotify.com/track/79IPg5Fb0x559bfhOqEqhK?si=a2edb8408aa24c83) ESPGHAN favourite Songs can be found on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0YIHKjxITLEm9XNyHyypTo?si=62ab5e3e33434312): https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0YIHKjxITLEm9XNyHyypTo (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0YIHKjxITLEm9XNyHyypTo) Literature Mubarak A et al. Diagnosis, management, and prevention of button battery ingestion in childhood: A European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition position paper. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2021 Jul 1;73(1):129–136. doi:10.1097/MPG.0000000000003048. PMID: 33555169. Thomson M et al. Paediatric gastrointestinal endoscopy: European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition and European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy guidelines. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2017 Jan;64(1):133–153. doi:10.1097/MPG.0000000000001408. PMID: 27622898. Tringali A et al. Pediatric gastrointestinal endoscopy: European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE) and European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition (ESPGHAN) guideline executive summary.Endoscopy. 2017 Jan;49(1):83–91. doi:10.1055/s-0042-111002. Epub 2016 Sep 12. PMID: 27617420.

3. 

   9 Sept 2026

   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 particular interest, that of blood flow through the liver and the effects that disorders of hepatic perfusion have on both intellection and the physiology of intellection, or cerebration. Manifest dysfunction of cerebration and thus of intellection resulting from liver disease is termed hepatic encephalopathy. It can occur with or without primarily disordered intermediary metabolism; congenital portosystemic shunts underlie some instances of hepatic encephalopathy without primary hepatocellular metabolic dysfunction. (Portosystemic shunting that results from vascular malformation rather than from hepatic scarring also may secondarily perturb intermediary metabolism.) Dr McLin has substantially contributed to recognition that a spectrum exists of neurocognitive dysfunction in children with chronic liver disease or portosystemic shunting – berry-picking among initial letters has given the abbreviation SLiPS for such dysfunction. Hepatic encephalopathy in children, unlike in adults, may alter brain development as well as function. In consequence, successful palliation of liver disease in children – as with liver transplantation – may not entirely ameliorate cognitive deficits such as impaired attention, executive function, processing speed, and school performance. Structured neuropsychological assessment and interventional support thus are important for children with liver disease in all phases of their journey. Dr McLin today offers three articles – bibliographic details are in the online précis of this session – as a basis for discussion. They are titled “Minimal hepatic encephalopathy in children with chronic liver disease: Prevalence, pathogenesis and magnetic resonance-based diagnosis”, by Srivastava et al.; “The current pediatric perspective on type B and C hepatic encephalopathy”, by McLin and D’Antiga; and “Neurometabolism and brain morphometry in an adolescent female with an extra-hepatic congenital portosystemic shunt”, by Chabbey et al. Her perspectives on SLiPS follow, with her proposals for diagnosis of what can be subtle, easy-to-miss problems and suggestions on patient management. Literature Chabbey I et al. Neurometabolism and brain morphometry in an adolescent female with an extra-hepatic congenital portosystemic shunt. JPGN Rep. 2023 Dec 28;5(1):35–42. doi:10.1002/jpr3.12035. eCollection 2024 Feb. PMID: 38545268. PMCID: PMC10964341. McLin VA, D’Antiga L. The current pediatric perspective on type B and C hepatic encephalopathy. Anal Biochem. 2022 Apr 15;643:114576. doi:10.1016/j.ab.2022.114576. Epub 2022 Jan 29. PMID: 35104444. Srivastava A et al. Minimal hepatic encephalopathy in children with chronic liver disease: Prevalence, pathogenesis and magnetic resonance-based diagnosis. J Hepatol. 2017 Mar;66(3):528–536. doi:10.1016/j.jhep.2016.10.026. Epub 2016 Nov 1. PMID: 27815224. Dr McLin´s favourite song: “Mon p’tit gars” – Drôles de Dames (https://open.spotify.com/track/3wPCCDYc22mJg6NMseq4i4?si=df13cc8a7cc14db9) ESPGHAN favourite Songs can be found on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0YIHKjxITLEm9XNyHyypTo?si=62ab5e3e33434312): https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0YIHKjxITLEm9XNyHyypTo (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0YIHKjxITLEm9XNyHyypTo)

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