Thursday, October 1, 2026
7:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Registration and Help Desk
7:45 AM - 8:45 AM
BREAKFAST
8:35 AM - 8:50 AM
Primer
Intestinal Failure: A Challenging and Changing Specialty
David Mercer, University of Nebraska Medical Center MD
8:50 AM - 9:35 AM
Primer/Allied Health Joint Session: Promoting quality of life and healthy living with intestinal failure and transplant: Peer support through shared experiences
Beverly Kosmach-Park, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
Christina Belza, Hospital for Sick Children MN, PhD
9:45 AM - 10:05 AM
Allied Health
Intestinal Failure and Transplant: Monitoring the child's long-term health.
Primer
How To's of Enteral Feeding Management
Alexandra Carey, Boston Children's Hosptial
10:05 AM - 10:25 AM
Allied Health
Building a Structured Program of Physical Activity in Intestinal Care
Primer
Parenteral Nutrition Management: What You Need to Know
Glenda Courtney-Martin, Hospital for Sick Children/ University of Toronto
10:25 AM - 10:45 AM
Allied Health
Transition of Care: Creating a Toolkit for Independence in Intestinal Failure
Sivan Kinberg, Columbia University MD
Primer
GLP-2 and Other Pharmacological Interventions
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM
BREAK
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Primer
Central Venous Access: Management and Complications
Sirine Belaid, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Children's of Alabama MD
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
Allied Health: Roundtable Session I
Electrolyte solutions: What's the best recipe?
Olivia Plageman, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
Allied Health: Roundtable Session I
Life with a Central Line: School, work, travel, and sports
Katie Janiak, UNMC PA-C
Allied Health: Roundtable Session I
The role for GLP-2 Therapy in Intestinal Care
Jyneva Pickel, Columbia University DNP, CPNP
Allied Health: Roundtable Session I
Tips and Tricks on Food Progression
Samantha List, UNMC RD
Allied Health: Roundtable Session I
Empowering Teens Through Intestinal Care Self-Management
Hannah McKillop, Nationwide Children's Hospital
Allied Health: Roundtable Session I
Navigating uncertainty: Strategies for securing insurance coverage and an intestinal care team during transition to adult care
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Primer
Initial Surgical Management of Intestinal Failure
Antonino Morabito, University of Florence
11:45 AM - 12:30 PM
Allied Health: Roundtable Session II
Life with a central line: School, work, travel, and sports
Allied Health: Roundtable Session II
Electrolyte Solutions: What's the best recipe?
Allied Health: Roundtable Session II
Tips and Tricks on Food Progression
Allied Health: Roundtable Session II
Empowering teens through intestinal care self-management
Allied Health: Roundtable Session II
The role for GLP-2 therapy in intestinal care
Allied Health: Roundtable Session II
Navigating Uncertainty: Strategies for securing insurance coverage and an intestinal care team during transition to adult care
Brandi Gerhardt, Nebraska Medicine
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Primer
Strategy of Surgical Rehabilitation
Pablo Lobos, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires MD
12:30 PM - 1:20 PM
LUNCH
1:20 PM - 1:50 PM
Allied Health
School Savvy: IEPS, safety concerns, and beyond
Leah Kelly, The Hospital for Sick Children
Primer
Intestinal Transplant: The Why, When, and With What
Geoff Bond, UPMC MD
1:50 PM - 2:20 PM
Allied Health
Formula Composition: Does it matter?
Elizabeth Bobo, Nemours Children's Health MS, RD, LDN
Primer
Graft Monitoring and Immunosuppression: The good, Bad and Ugly
Ruben Quiros Tejeira, University of Nebraska Medical Center
2:20 PM - 2:50 PM
Allied Health
The Multidisciplinary Team: How to Take Care of You
Hilary Bashaw, Ohsu Doernbecher Children's Hospital MD
Primer
Outcomes of Transplantation
Robert Venick, UCLA Health MD
2:50 PM - 3:05 PM
AFTERNOON BREAK
3:05 PM - 3:25 PM
Primer
Endoluminal Lengthening (Spring Eclipse)
James Dunn, Stanford University MD, PhD
3:05 PM - 4:20 PM
Allied Health
Allied Health Abstracts
3:25 PM - 3:45 PM
Primer
Life long TPN vs Transplantation
Monique Goldschmidt, Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical Center
3:45 PM - 4:05 PM
Primer
Is Pre-emptive Transplant Indicated?
Vikram Raghu, UPMC MD
4:05 PM - 4:25 PM
Primer
Challenges of Transplant timing as patients reach adult age
Ruy Cruz, UPMC
4:25 PM - 4:30 PM
Closing Remarks and Adjourn
Friday, October 2, 2026
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM
BREAKFAST AND EXPO
7:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Registration and Help Desk
8:00 AM - 8:05 AM
Welcome & Introductions
8:05 AM - 8:40 AM
KEYNOTE: New Frontiers: Advancing Intestinal Failure Care Through Allied Health Scholarship
Christina Belza, Hospital for Sick Children MN, PhD
Marie Neumann, University of Nebraska Medical Center PhD
8:40 AM - 9:05 AM
Surgical approach to the Catastrophic Injury
Surgical Approach to Catastrophic Bowel Loss
Paul Wales, Cincinnati Children's Hospital MD, MSc
9:05 AM - 9:30 AM
Surgical approach to the Catastrophic Injury
Physiologic Benefits of Distal Bowel Refeeding
Gil Hardy PhD, FRSC
9:30 AM - 9:55 AM
Surgical approach to the Catastrophic Injury
Is There a Role for Surgery in Non-SBS Intestinal Failure
David Mercer, University of Nebraska Medical Center MD
9:55 AM - 10:25 AM
MORNING BREAK AND EXPO
10:25 AM - 10:50 AM
Bioactive Components of Breast Milk
Katie Huff, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center MD
AI Models in TPN
Nima Aghaeepour, Stanford University PhD
10:50 AM - 11:15 AM
Updates on Donor Human Milk
Ting Ting Fu, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center MD
Innovative approaches in Intestinal Failure
Fetal Surgery for Gastroschisis
Sundeep Keswani MD
11:15 AM - 11:40 AM
After Breast Milk- What to Use?
Jackie Wessel, jackie.wessel@cchmc.org MEd, RDN, CNSC, CLE
Innovative approaches in Intestinal Failure
Renal Injury in Intestinal Failure and Transplant: Where We Stand and How to Improve
Sameer Thadani, Baylor College of Medicine MD
11:40 AM - 1:10 PM
LUNCH AND EXPO
12:10 PM - 12:40 PM
Innovation Theatre: Round Table Discussion on Real World GLP-2 Use
Valeria Cohran MD
1:10 PM - 1:35 PM
Advocacy as a Frontier
Colorado Advocacy in TPN Access
Lindsey Gumer, Children's Hospital Colorado MD
Innovative approaches in Intestinal Failure
Special Lecture: Living Donor Intestinal Transplantation
Debra Sudan, Duke University Hospital MD
1:35 PM - 2:00 PM
Chronic inflammation in SGS
Conrad Cole MD, MPH, MSc
Advocacy as a Frontier
Can HRSA Help Develop Guidelines Around Transition to Support Intestinal Failure and Transplant Patients for a Lifetime
Raymond Lynch MD
2:00 PM - 2:25 PM
Inflammation in Intestinal Failures - Congenital Diarrheas
Lissette Jimenez, Boston Children's Hospital
Advocacy as a Frontier
The Price of Progress: Caregiver Strain in Pediatric Intestinal Failure
Atu Agawu MD, MPH, MSCE
2:25 PM - 2:55 PM
AFTERNOON BREAK AND EXPO
2:55 PM - 3:20 PM
Frontiers in Data Integration
Designing the EMR for Data Collection
Ethan Mezoff, Nationwide Children's MD
Patient Sessions - How to engage at a scientific meeting
Micah's Story and How We Can Impact NEC
Jennifer Canvasser, Necrotizing Enterocolitis (NEC) Society
3:20 PM - 3:45 PM
Frontiers in Data Integration
Intestinal Tissue Bioengineering
Allison Speer MD
3:20 PM - 4:10 PM
Patient Sessions - How to engage at a scientific meeting
Partnering for Progress: Patient and Family Engagement as an Opportunity in PIF - a Panel Discussion
Marie Neumann, University of Nebraska Medical Center PhD
Swapna Kakani, The Gutsy Perspective, LLC
Meghan Hall Rauen, The Global Gastroschisis Foundation MA, LCMHC/NCC
Jessica Allen, Sanford University PhD
3:45 PM - 4:10 PM
Frontiers in Data Integration
Machine Learning Methodology for Predictive Modeling in Intestinal Failure and Transplant
Eric Pahl, IIRTA
4:15 PM - 5:05 PM
Intestinal Failure Medical Abstracts
Medical and Surgical Oral Abstracts
5:15 PM - 7:15 PM
COCKTAIL RECEPTON & POSTER SESSION
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Mix and Mingle Reception at Slowdown (additional fee)
Saturday, October 3, 2026
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM
BREAKFAST AND EXPO
7:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Registration and Help Desk
8:00 AM - 8:05 AM
Welcome and Day 1 Recap
8:05 AM - 8:40 AM
KEYNOTE: Frontiers in Organ Utilization: DCD Intestinal Grafts From Bench to the Clinic
Paco Hernandez MD
8:45 AM - 9:10 AM
Frontiers in Monitoring of IF Patients
Parental Nutrition Weaning in Patients Enrolled in Remote Patient Monitoring
Stephanie Oliveira, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center MD, CNSC
Modulating Immunity in Intestinal Transplant
Intestinal Conditioning and Machine Perfusion
Liara Gonzalez, North Carolina State University DVM, PhD, DACVS
9:10 AM - 9:35 AM
Frontiers in Monitoring of IF Patients
Tools to Enhance Quality of Life
Anna Gold, SickKids Hospital PhD
Marie Neumann, University of Nebraska Medical Center PhD
Christina Belza, Hospital for Sick Children MN, PhD
Modulating Immunity in Intestinal Transplant
Personalizing Immunosuppression in Intestinal Transplant: Can we do it?
Alex Kroemer MD
9:35 AM - 10:00 AM
Frontiers in Monitoring of IF Patients
Teleclinic Visit Effectiveness in Intestinal Failure and Intestinal Transplant
Marina Serper MD, MS
Modulating Immunity in Intestinal Transplant
Experience with Biologics in Intestinal Transplant
Jennifer Garcia MD
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM
MORNING BREAK AND EXPO
10:15 AM - 10:40 AM
Role of Advanced Endoscopy in Intestinal Failure
Daniela Gattini, Hospital for Sick Children - University of Toronto MD
Reproductive Health in Intestinal Failure and Intestinal Transplant
Hilary Catron, Nebraska Medicine MS, RD, LMNT
10:40 AM - 11:05 AM
Management of Surgical Complications in Intestinal Failure
The Impact of AI and Social Media for Families
Hannah McKillop, Nationwide Children's Hospital
11:05 AM - 11:30 AM
Recognition of Medically-Induced PTSD
Wendy Lopez, Cincinnati Children's Hospital PsyD
Advancing Clinical Translational Science in Intestinal Failure and Transplant
Tomoaki Kato MD
11:35 AM - 12:15 PM
Top Abstract Presentations
12:15 PM - 1:10 PM
LUNCH AND EXPO
1:10 PM - 1:35 PM
Pediatric Intestinal Failure and Intestinal Transplant Data Snapshot
1:35 PM - 2:00 PM
Scholarship in Intestinal Failure and the Intestinal Failure Journal
Douglas Farmer, UCLA MD
2:00 PM - 2:25 PM
Lift ECHO Next Steps
Kishore Iyer MD
2:25 PM - 2:45 PM
Wrap-Up and Closing Remarks