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 city, his birthplace, has a history as impossibly long as Luca is impossibly young. It flourished under the Roman Republic and Empire, was the southern capital of the German Longbeards, the Longobardi, who r...
Jul 19, 2025•21 min•Season 3Ep. 5
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 also earned a PhD degree for studies in bacterially induced intestinal inflammation. His first position as an attending physician began in 2009 at the Stollery Children’s Hospital in Edmonton, Alberta, wher...
Jul 09, 2025•22 min•Season 3Ep. 4
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 sealed box? No? Too late now – because it’s Dr Jake Mann! How many of you guessed right? Jake’s Picks This Week: 1. From J Pediatr Gastroenterol NutrStock et al. from Kassel, Germany – yes, the city of ...
Jun 30, 2025•22 min
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 parapet: not your usual interviewer, but instead Vangelis will shoot questions at Prof Assa; Prof Assa will shoot answers back; and the listeners can enjoy the firefight. Vangelis, may the odds be ever in ...
Jun 19, 2025•27 min•Season 3Ep. 3
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 Russia… Only in 1917 was the Grand Duchy of Finland pried away from the fragmenting Russian empire, and, mind you, the Russians, wearing their Soviet hat, stole Karelia back in 1940. Thinking of the state...
Jun 09, 2025•22 min•Season 3Ep. 4
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. Jake Mann, reaching you today from ESPGHAN’s annual meeting, we uniformly are alert against diphyllobothriasis, Scourge of the North. Herring is on the menu this week—wish us luck. Jake’s choices for today:...
May 31, 2025•19 min
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 expert in paediatric food allergy. In this podcast, however, he steps away from what might be considered the principal theme of his expertise—namely, immunologic dysregulation at the enteric mucosa and be...
May 19, 2025•23 min
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 discuss with us (she found many more, of course, but podcast time constraints – you’ll understand). She explains why she chose these particular abstracts… though it’s entirely possible your assessments may dif...
May 16, 2025•25 min
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 she asks us to consider : -- Are feeding difficulties adequately recognised and treated in children with food allergy ? -- What is the context of the immune-supportive diet in addressing food allergy ? -...
May 09, 2025•23 min
Hello! The JPGN Journal Club, led by Dr. Jake Mann, is back — in your speakers, your earbuds, or maybe even over the airport tannoy… well, probably not the last one. Anyway, it's good to be back in touch. Please visit https://www.espghan.org/knowledge-center to explore current offerings, and don't forget ESPGHAN’s annual meeting, taking place May 14–17 in Helsinki. This session’s discussion papers: 1.From Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition (JPGN):Ritchie et al. (Aberdeen, UK, an...
Apr 30, 2025•24 min
Dr. Steffen Hartleif was reared and educated in Bremen, one of the city-states in the Hanseatic League, famous for maritime trade; the son of a town and a culture that turned their backs on the land and opened their arms and hearts to the sea. Rejecting this proud heritage, he fled to southwestern Germany for medical education—almost as far from saltwater as a German can go—and has stayed there, working in the hospitals and clinics of Tübingen and that city’s medical university. His scientific c...
Apr 19, 2025•28 min
We are talking to Dr. Nataša Dragutinović, until recently of Belgrade’s University Children’s Hospital, about the difficulties — but, yes, also the joys — of training and working as a paediatric hepatogastroenterologist in Serbia, a nation shunned by the European Union since the Yugoslav Wars of the early 1990s. Resources are scant; health-care systems are underdeveloped; opportunities to travel abroad, to learn from and to train with providers of highly specialised care, are few. Nonetheless, d...
Apr 09, 2025•34 min
Spring! The snowdrops are in their glory, the crocuses are a gaudy carpet, at least as this note is being compiled. Little darling, it’s been a long, cold, lonely winter, but here comes – no, not the Sun, instead, JPGN Journal Club, led by Dr Jake Mann. Please visit https://www.espghan.org/knowledge-center to examine the offerings, and don’t forget the Helsinki annual meeting, May 14-17, of ESPGHAN. Your podcast team will be there. Stop by, please, with your thanks, congratulations, suggestions,...
Mar 31, 2025•22 min
Today in the ESPGHAN podcast series we hear from Dr Carolina Gutiérrez Junquera of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid on eosinophilic oesophagitis (EOE). Dr Gutiérrez Junquera passed in her training through the Complutense University of Madrid and its affiliated hospitals. After a fellowship in the San Francisco bay area, she went home to Spain to develop her interest in various aspects of EOE. She has become prominent as an organiser and evaluator of multi-institutional studies of this disord...
Mar 20, 2025•22 min
We hear today in our ESPGHAN podcast from Dr Rotem Sigall-Boneh of Israel’s Institute of Gastroenterology, Nutrition and Liver Diseases, Schneider Children’s Medical Centre, Petach-Tikva, and the Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv – sorry, the “Dr” is a few months away ; she’s earning a PhD (University of Amsterdam), and it’s in the bag, I expect – who has spent the last decade approaching the question of how exclusionary diets exert their beneficial effect in patients with infla...
Mar 10, 2025•17 min
Are we all recovered from January, of all months the most Monday-ish? Experience might teach us how to cope with, dear Lord, the first of three more months of winter. But no. Instead, the older one becomes, the more burdensome January is. Well, take heart: In the wonderland of JPGN Journal Club, led by Dr. Jake Mann, as the accompanying podcast is recorded, we’re deep into February. Listeners, keep on keeping on! Spring WILL arrive – just not soon enough. Despite this horrid winter, ESPGHAN cont...
Mar 01, 2025•25 min
This gem on the ESPGHAN string of pearls interviews Dr Oren Ledder, who is at once an Ozzie and an Izzie – an Australian who migrated to Israel, where he now directs the paediatric endoscopy service at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem. He today speaks on small-bowel stricture in inflammatory bowel disease, a focussed chat dealing with three questions in particular : 1. Which patients should be considered for endoscopic balloon dilatation of a Crohn's-disease stricture ? 2. Who should per...
Feb 20, 2025•22 min
Prof Dr Deirdre Kelly is today’s ESPGHAN podcast series guest, speaking on the long-term care of paediatric allograft-liver patients and the findings gleaned from protocol-biopsy studies. These have uncovered inflammation and fibrosis that are not clinically apparent ; although shifts in immunosuppressive regimen can ablate inflammation, fibrosis persists. (These findings come from patients whose biopsy procedures were not prompted by intercurrent disease. Thus long-term changes that led to clin...
Feb 10, 2025•22 min
At the watershed between 2024 and 2025, some readers will have remembered this couplet: “Hark! It’s midnight, children dear. / Duck – here comes another year!” In paraphrase, then, duck – here comes another instalment of JPGN Journal Club, led by Dr. Jake Mann! Before we move along to the articles to which Jake wants us to pay attention, have a glance at what ESPGHAN is doing for you at https://www.espghan.org/knowledge-center : 2025.I.30: Monothematic Conference on Steatotic Liver Disease in Ch...
Feb 01, 2025•25 min
An old friend today – scratch that, a familiar friend – familiar to those who have followed these podcasts since their inception : Welcome to the studio from Brussels, Dr Patrick Bontems, head of “interventional paediatrics” at Hôpital Universitaire des Enfants Reine Fabiola ! This is his second appearance as an ESPGHAN guest, and we’re delighted to have him back to speak on aspects of percutaneous gastrostomy or duodenojejunostomy selection, placement, and management. He asks us to consider : W...
Jan 20, 2025•19 min
Three for two today ; one interviewer and two guests, Dr Warren Hyer and Ms Fiona Cargill-Marin in this ESPGHAN podcast, with its theme the management of polyposis syndromes in paediatric patients : Not so much the from-what-age and the what-to-look-for as the origin of the guidelines first put forward by ESPGHAN going on five years ago and spearheaded by Dr Hyer, who is among the leaders of a well-coördinated effort to systematise relevant care, bringing it away from adult endoscopy services an...
Jan 10, 2025•19 min
Happy holidays, everyone! Here’s JPGN Journal Club, led by Dr Jake Mann. Don’t forget ESPGHAN’s other educational offerings: https://www.espghan.org/knowledge-center – on 2025.I.15 the GI Winter School, on I.30 the Monothematic Conference on Steatotic Liver Disease in Children, and on III.05 the GI Immunology Master Class: From pathogenesis to clinical management of EGID, coeliac disease, and IBD. Jake’s choices for discussion today: From J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr , by Fioretti et al ., writi...
Jan 01, 2025•22 min
The ESPGHAN podcast series today hopes to make you familiar with some of the work of Dr Sissel Moltu, a polyglot and polymath – she’s of Norwegian and USAnian heritage, was reared in Norway, took her medical degree in Freiburg, worked in England – who combined neonatology with gastroenterology when in Oslo University Hospital frustration at parenteral-alimentation – associated liver disease in short-bowel syndrome led her to make a career of investigating how best to feed the critically ill infa...
Dec 20, 2024•20 min
Prof Dr Binita Kamath of first the United Kingdom (London’s King’s College Hospital), then the United States (Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia), then Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children – and now, wait for it, the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia again ! – speaks with us today in the ESPGHAN podcast series. She has seen diagnosis of Alagille syndrome (AGS) move from clinicomorphologic assessment into two-pronged genetic sorting (first JAG1, then NOTCH2 ) and its treatment move from surger...
Dec 10, 2024•21 min
December’s almost here, can you believe it ? Here’s JPGN Journal Club, led by Dr Jake Mann ! Don’t forget ESPGHAN’s other educational offerings : https://www.espghan.org/knowledge-center – on XII.27 the MOOC Enteral Nutrition in Preterm Infants conference, on 2025.I.01 the Young ESPGHAN Mentorship Programme, on I.15 the GI Winter School, and on I.30 the Monothematic Conference on Steatotic Liver Disease in Children. Jake’s choices for discussion today : From J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr , by Tes...
Dec 01, 2024•22 min
The ESPGHAN podcast series today addresses three points that have defined the recent career of Dr Cristina Campoy Folgoso, professor and chair of paediatrics at the Medical University of Granada, Spain. These ar : How maternal nutritional status can determine the offspring's growth and body composition during childhood ; which interventions during pregnancy may effectively prevent childhood obesity ; and which nutrients are most associated with the risk of childhood obesity. Prof Campoy touches ...
Nov 20, 2024•22 min
Today’s ESPGHAN podcast series guest, Mrs Alison Dinning, is an academic dietitian at the Children’s Hospital of Bristol in the west of England. Her interests centre on the care of children with short-bowel syndrome (SBS), with particular pleasure taken in successful shifts from parenteral to enteral alimentation – hard work, but if the family can be brought on board, then with use of breast milk, attention to what portions of the bowel are lacking, the use of blended (higher-density than simple...
Nov 10, 2024•23 min
November: Knocking on the door, or already inside and making itself at home ? Whatever. It’s JPGN Journal Club, led by Dr Jake Mann! Don’t forget ESPGHAN’s other educational offerings: https://www.espghan.org/knowledge-center – in particular on XI.11 the Winter School on Basic Science and Translational Research; on XI.15 a Masterclass on Transition from Paediatric to Adult Healthcare in Patients with GI or Liver Disease; and on XI.21 the 9th IBD Masterclass. Jake’s choices for discussion today: ...
Nov 01, 2024•22 min
Today’s ESPGHAN podcast interviews Dr Jan de Laffolie, at present in Giessen (Germany), who has a strong interest in both inflammatory bowel disease and in “artificial intelligence”, or AI – that is, the sifting of data for correlations, not only those that are apparent to humans unassisted, call it to the naked eye / the naked mind, but also those that elude us mortals when we are on our own. Working within a tripartite framework of : 1) What is artificial intelligence and how can it be applied...
Oct 19, 2024•24 min
Turmoil after Hitler’s war brought together the parents of today’s guest, Dr Marguerite Dunitz-Scheer ; she was born in the United States, reared in Switzerland, and with a marriage became Austrian. She might have become a musician by profession – that was in her family’s blood, and she attended a conservatory as a teenager – but instead, true to the principle of everything, everywhere, and all at once that has informed so many of her life’s trajectories, she trained in medicine. There, as a you...
Oct 09, 2024•23 min
