APGNN Annual Meeting 

Friday, October 6th 

7:30-8:00 am: Breakfast & Welcome 

8:00-9:00 am: Session I – Keynote Speaker & APGNN Year in Review

     8:00-8:30am: Integrative Medicine 
     Ann Ming Yeh, MD - Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital 

     8:30-9:00am: APGNN Year in Review
     Elizabeth Burch, MSN, RN, CPNP-PC, APGNN President

9:00-10:00 am:  Session II - Intestinal Rehabilitation 

     9:00-9:30am: Will a spoonful of Medicine Help the TPN go down?
     Danielle Wendel, MD - Seattle Children’s Hospital 

     9:30-10:00am: Ostomy Overview & Troubleshooting 
     Katherine Brennan, MSN, APRN-NP, FNP-C, CPNP & Teresa Kodiak, MSN, APRN-NP,  FNP-PC  - Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago 

10:00-10:30 am: Committee Meetings & Break
10:30-12:00 pm:   Session III - Allergic Conditions of the GI Tract  

     10:30-11:00am: Update on Pharmacologic Therapies for Pediatric Patients with Eosinophilic Esophagitis 
     Kristen Critelli, MD - UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh

     11:00- 11:30am: Dispelling Serum Food Allergy Testing 
     Vincent Mukkada, MD - Cincinnati Children’s Hospital 

     11:30- 12:00pm: Assessment & Treatment of Allergic Colitis 
     Patricia Bierly, MSN, CRNP - Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia 

12:00-1:30 pm: Lunch and Poster Session
1:30-3:00 pm:  Session IV - Motility & Disorders of Gut-Brain Interaction 

     1:30- 2:00pm: The Pediatric intestinal Pseudo obstruction-what’s new and what’s not 
     Rinarani Sanghavi, MD - UT Southwestern Medical Center

     2:00- 2:30pm: Biomarkers in Disorders of Gut-Brain Interaction 
     Samuel Nurko, MD, MPH -  Boston Children’s Hospital 

     2:30- 3:00pm: IB-Stim: A New Treatment for DGBI
     Katja Kovacic, MD - Children’s Wisconsin 
3:00-5:00 pm:  Session V - Hot Topics 

     3:00- 3:30pm: Psychological Exposure Protocols for GI Conditions 
     Julie Snyder, Psy.D - Boston Children’s Hospital 

     3:30- 4:00pm: H. Pylori, What’s New, What’s Hot and What’s Not 
     Benjamin Gold, MD - GI Care for Kids 

     4:00- 4:30pm: "But I feel fine": Strategies to support nonadherence in asymptomatic patients.  
     Catherine Naclerio PsyD & Christine Reinhard, PhD – Children’s Hospital Colorado

     4:30- 5:00pm: Polyps 101
     Seth Septer, DO - Children’s Hospital Colorado 

5:00-5:30 pm: APGNN Awards & Presentations

    Excellence in Education
    Poster of Distinction
    Susan Moyer Research Grant
    Announcing current year’s winner 
    Grant update from Susan Moyer Research Grant winner of 2021 - Melanie Oates, RN - Nationwide 

6:00 pm: APGNN Social Event
Saturday, October 7th 

8:00-8:30 am: Breakfast & Welcome 

8:30-10:00am:  Session VI - Inflammatory Bowel Disease 

     8:30- 9:00am: Extraintestinal Manifestations of Inflammatory Bowel Disease 
     Jonathan Moses, MD - UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital 

     9:00- 9:30am: IBD Telephone Triage 
     Alicia Witkins, MS, RN, CPN - Children’s Hospital Colorado 

     9:30- 10:00am: Specialized Diets in IBD
     Jennifer Smith, MS, RD, CPS, LD, LMT - Nationwide Children’s Hospital 

10:00-10:30 am Break 
10:30- 12:00 pm:  Session VII - Hepatology

     10:30- 11:00am: Evaluation of Elevated Liver Function Tests 
     APGNN Nurse Practitioner

     11:00- 11:30am: Drug and Viral Induced Liver Injury 
     Noberto Rodriguez-Baez, MD - UT Southwestern Medical Center 

     11:30am- 12:00pm: Progressive Familial Intrahepatic Cholestasis 
     Amber Hildreth, DO  - Rady Children’s Hospital 

12:00-2:00 pm: Lunch and Poster Session
2:00-3:30 pm: NASPGHAN Concurrent Session - From the Kitchen to the Clinic: Improving Health Outcomes Through Diet
Moderators: Valerie Marchand, MD, Ste-Justine UHC and Conrad Cole, MD, MPH, MSc, Cincinnati Children's Hospital

     2:00pm: When food becomes medicine: Eat, drink and be wary
     Kathleen Gura, PharmD, Boston Children's Hospital

     2:25pm: Abstract

     2:37pm: The anit-inlammatory way
     Maria R. Mascarenhas, MBBS, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

     3:02pm: Culinary medicine in GI disorders
     Kaylie Nguyen, MS, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital @ Stanford
3:45-5:15 pm: NASPGHAN Concurrent Session 

3:45-5:15pm: NASPGHAN Concurrent Session: VROOM: Vomiting, Regurgitation, Ongoing Outbursts through the Mouth
Moderators: Miguel Saps, MD, University of Miami School of Medicine and Corey Baker, MD, Connecticut Children's

    3:45 pm: Differential diagnosis of VROOM
    Anita Rowhani Sicolo, MD, FAAP, Children's Hospital of Los Angeles

     4:10 pm: Abstract

     4:22 pm: VROOM: Behavioral modification is the answer because rumination is a problem
     Ashley Kroon Van Diest, PhD, Nationwide Children's Hospital

     4:47 pm:VROOM debate: Pick your lane - do everything
     Ajay Kaul, MBBS MD, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
                   VROOM debate: Pick your lane - do nothing
     Anil Darbari, MD, MBA, Children’s National Hospital