Thursday, October 1, 2026
7:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Attendee Check-In 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 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
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
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
10:25 AM - 10:45 AM
Allied Health
Transition of Care: Creating a Toolkit for Independence in Intestinal Failure
Primer
GLP-2 and other pharmacological management
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM
BREAK
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Primer
Central Venous Access: Management and Complications
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
Allied Health: Roundtable Session I
Navigating uncertainty: Strategies for securing insurance coverage and an intestinal care team during transition to adult care
Allied Health: Roundtable Session I
The role for GLP-2 therapy in intestinal care
Allied Health: Roundtable Session I
Tips and Tricks on Food Progression
Allied Health: Roundtable Session I
Life with a central line: School, work, travel, and sports
Allied Health: Roundtable Session I
Electrolyte solutions: What's the best recipe?
Allied Health: Roundtable Session I
Empowering teens through intestinal care self-management
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Primer
Initial surgical management of intestinal failure
11:45 AM - 12:30 PM
Allied Health: Roundtable Session II
The role for GLP-2 therapy in intestinal care
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
Navigating uncertainty: Strategies for securing insurance coverage and an intestinal care team during transition to adult care
Allied Health: Roundtable Session II
Electrolyte solutions: What's the best recipe?
Allied Health: Roundtable Session II
Life with a central line: School, work, travel, and sports
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Primer
Strategy of Surgical Rehabilitation
12:30 PM - 1:20 PM
Lunch
1:20 PM - 1:50 PM
Allied Health
School Savvy: IEPS, safety concerns, and beyond
Primer
Intestinal Transplant: The why, when, and with what
1:50 PM - 2:20 PM
Allied Health
Formula composition: Does it matter?
Primer
Graft Monitoring and Immunosuppression: The good, bad and ugly
2:20 PM - 2:50 PM
Allied Health
The Multidisciplinary Team: How to Take Care of You
Primer
Outcomes of transplantation (including retransplantation)
2:50 PM - 3:05 PM
Afternoon Break
3:05 PM - 3:25 PM
Primer
Redefining Indications for STEP
3:05 PM - 4:20 PM
Allied Health
Allied Health Abstracts
3:25 PM - 3:45 PM
Primer
Life long TPN vs Transplantation
3:45 PM - 4:05 PM
Primer
Is pre-emptive transplant indicated?
4:05 PM - 4:25 PM
Primer
Challenges of transplant timing as patients reach adult age
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
Attendee Check-In 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
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 MD
9:55 AM - 10:25 AM
Morning Break and Expo
10:25 AM - 10:50 AM
AI Models in TPN
Nima Aghaeepour, Stanford University PhD
After Breast Milk- what to use?
Jackie Wessel MEd, RDN, CNSC, CLE
10:50 AM - 11:15 AM
Bioactive Components of Breast Milk
Katie Huff, 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
Updates on Donor Human Milk
Ting Ting Fu MD
Innovative approaches in Intestinal Failure
Endoluminal Lengthening (Spring Eclipse)
James Dunn, Stanford University MD, PhD
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
12:40 PM - 1:10 PM
Afternoon Break and Expo
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
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/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
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
Insights from Patient Perspective
3:45 PM - 4:10 PM
Frontiers in Data Integration
Machine Learning Methodology for Predictive Modeling in Intestinal Failure and Transplant
Eric Pahl, IIRTA
4:10 PM - 4:15 PM
TRANSITION
4:15 PM - 5:05 PM
Intestinal Failure Medical Abstracts
Medical 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
Attendee Check-In and Help Desk
8:00 AM - 8:05 AM
Welcome & 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 QOL
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/EXPO
10:15 AM - 10:40 AM
Reproductive Health in Intestinal Failure and Intestinal Transplant
Hillary Catron MS, RD, LMNT
Role of Advanced Endoscopy in Intestinal Failure
Daniela Gattini MD
10:40 AM - 11:05 AM
Management of Surgical Complications in Intestinal Failure
Patrick Javid MD
Social Media for Intestinal Failure Families (Pros and Cons)
11:05 AM - 11:30 AM
Advancing Clinical Translational Science in Intestinal Failure and Transplant
Tomoaki Kato MD
Recognition of Medically-Induced PTSD
11:35 AM - 12:15 PM
Top Abstract Presentations
12:15 PM - 1:10 PM
Lunch and Posters/Expo
1:10 PM - 1:35 PM
Pediatric Intestinal Failure and Intestinal Transplant Data Snapshot
Robert Venick MD
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 / Closing Remarks