Concurrent Session II - THE ROLE OF DIET IN CHRONIC DISEASE
Moderators: Nikhil Pai, MD, McMaster Children's Hospital and Sarah Fleet, MD, Boston Children's Hospital

IBD: Diets that work
Lindsey Albenberg, DO, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Objectives:
  • Understand epidemiological data linking diet to the development of inflammatory bowel disease
  • Understand what is known regarding diet and its effects on the gut microbiome and its metabolome and the relevance to inflammatory bowel disease
  • Describe dietary management approaches for IBD – past, present, and future
Lindsey Albenberg
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Channeling your rage: How can I make this !$%@ insurance company cover enteral nutrition for my patient?
Bryan Rudolph, MD, MPH, FAAP, The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore
Objectives:
  • Understand the insurance and policy barriers to getting patients on enteral nutrition
  • Be familiar with how these barriers vary by state
  • Know what NASPGHAN is doing to solve this problem and what you can do to help patients
Bryan Rudolph
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THE FUNCTIONS OF INITIAL AND EXPANDING LIPID DROPLETS IN NAFLD Nina Gluchowski, MD, Children’s Hospital Boston
Nina Gluchowski
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At the crossroads of nutrition and liver disease: How to optimize the nutritional status of patients with chronic liver diseases
Marialena Mouzaki, MD, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Objectives:
  • Recognize the limitations of traditional approaches to assessing nutritional status in the context of chronic liver disease
  • Evaluate the role of functional assessments of nutritional status
  • Successfully implement a nutritional rehabilitation protocol for the support of patients with end stage liver disease
Marialena Mouzaki
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