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For the Biennial Conference 2023, CAPGAN was delighted to join with the ISPGHANCONF 10th Annual National Conference in Hyderabad, India.

Conference Venue: Park Hyatt Hotel, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad

Conference Host: Dr. Neelam Mohan; President of CAPGAN and ISPGHAN

We remain indebted to Dr. Ramesh Kancharla, Organizing Chairman; Dr. Prashant Bachina, Organizing Secretary; Dr. Adarsh Kancharla, Joint Organizing Secretary; and Dr. Shrish Bhatnagar, General Secretary, for handling the registration and all of the conference logistics.

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CAPGAN members chaired several scientific sessions and CAPGAN facilitated several state-of-the-art presentations in gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition by many leading international experts:

• Gut Brain Interaction Disorders: Prof Nikhil Thapar, Director of the Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Liver Transplant service, Queensland Children's Hospital, Brisbane, Australia
• CHAIN Updates: Jay Berkley; Prof Paediatric Infectious Diseases, KEMRI/Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya; Centre for Tropical Medicine & Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, UK
• The Action Against Stunting Hub: A whole-child approach to develop a new typology of childhood stunting. Teena Rajeev; Scientist C, Department of Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition, ICMR-NIN, Hyderabad, India
• Pro/synbiotics, Environmental Enteric Dysfunction and Inflammation: Recent findings from the PROSYNK study. Stephen Allen; Prof Paediatrics, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK
• Treatment De-Escalation from Biologics in PIBD: An Evidence-Based Approach. Dr Sandhia Naik; Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterologist, Royal London Children’s Hospital, UK
• Metabolism in Severe Acute Malnutrition: Dr Robert Bandsma; Associate Professor, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Canada
• Optimising Early Life Nutrition in India: Dr Bharati Kulkarni (online), Scientist G and Head, Reproductive and Child Health and Nutrition, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), Hyderabad, Telangana, India
• Therapy of Pediatric Eosinophilic GI Disorders – What’s New? and Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID): Dr Susan Hill (online), Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital; Honorary Senior Lecturer, Institute of Child Health, University College of London, UK
• Coeliac Disease – What’s New? Dr Chris Spray; Consultant in Paediatric Gastroenterology, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, UK
• An Update on Novel Interventions for Environmental Enteric Dysfunction: Prof Paul Kelly (online); Prof of Tropical Gastroenterology, Barts & The London School of Medicine, UK; Honorary Lecturer, University of Zambia School of Medicine, Lusaka; Honorary Senior Lecturer, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
• An Itching Cholestatic Child: Pathophysiology and Management PFIC - Spectrum and Management Algorithm. Dr Moinak Sen Sarma; Additional Professor, Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India
• A Genetic Approach to Infantile Cholestasis: Dr Huma Cheema (online); Prof. Emeritus Pediatric Gastroenterology-Hepatology and Nutrition, The Children's Hospital & the University of Child Health, Lahore, Pakistan

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Dr Mohan thanking invited speakers

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A new venture was an informal “Meet the Mentor: How to be a successful Researcher” session held 08.00-09.00 on Saturday, Oct 28th 2024. Small groups of delegates met with international experts experienced in clinical research. These sessions proved highly effective and feedback was very positive. We thank the following mentors for participating:

• Tahmeed Ahmed: Executive Director, icddr,b, Bangladesh
• Robert Bandsma: Associate Professor, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Canada
• Chris Spray: Consultant in Paediatric Gastroenterology, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, UK
• Jay Berkley: Professor of Paediatric Infectious Diseases, KEMRI/Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya; Centre for Tropical Medicine & Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford
• Peter B Sullivan: Emeritus Professor in Paediatric Gastroenterology, Emeritus Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford University, UK
• Sandhia Naik: Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterologist, Royal London Children’s Hospital, UK
• Stephen Allen: Professor of Paediatrics, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK

CAPGAN abstracts and posters. Members submitted a large number of abstracts to the conference. Many thanks to Robert Bandsma and Debbie Thompson for scoring submissions and selecting those for oral presentations (10 minutes) and posters. First authors were required to summarise the main elements of their posters (2 mins).

ORAL PRESENTATIONS

Nutrition - Oct 27th; 14.40 – 15.40
Chairs: Dr Sandhia Naik, Prof Bhupinder Sandhu
Time	First Author	Title
14.40	Samira Ali	Factors contributing to the infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices of children under-2 years of north-eastern region of Bangladesh
14.52	Rafid Hassan	Nutrient adequacy and its associated factors among adolescent girls in rural northern region of Bangladesh
15.04	Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayeem Bin Shahid	Factors associated with congenital heart disease in severely malnourished children under five
15.16	Rukaeya Amin Sobi	Impact of rotaviral diarrhea on child growth in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia in the Global Enteric Multicenter Study
15.28	Arul Premanand Lionel B	Effect of Gluten Free Diet (GFD) on growth and glycemic control in children with Type I Diabetes Mellitus and Celiac disease

Gastroenterology - Oct 27th; 15.50 – 16.40
Chairs: Dr Neelam Mohan, Emeritus Prof Peter B Sullivan
Time	First Author	Title
15.50	Syed Bashar	Preventive measure practices among under-5 children suffering from diarrhea in Bangladesh
16.02	Asaduzzaman Asad	Resistome dynamics of multi-drug resistant Shigella in Bangladesh
16.14	Asaduzzaman Asad	Mechanism of third-generation cephalosporin resistance in Shigella in Bangladesh
16.26	Sailen Kumar Bana	MR defecography in children with refractory constipation - hope or hype?

Hepatology - Oct 28th; 15:10 – 17.00
Chairs: Dr Chris Spray, Dr Anil Dhawan
Time	First Author	Title
15.10	Tamoghna Biswas	Therapeutic plasma exchange provides native liver survival benefit in children with acute liver failure – A propensity score matched analysis
15.22	Prabhsaran Kaur	Sarcopenia affects survival with native liver in children with chronic liver disease
15.34	Aniket Ashok Deshmukh	Bridging Borders: Unravelling metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD)/Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) in Indian and Canadian children
15.46	Deepti Ramachandra	Liver transplant – An evolving option in familial hypercholesterolemia with a complex heterozygous mutation
15.58	Fathima Bano	Living donor liver transplantation for paediatric Wilson’s disease
16.10	Deepti Ramachandra	Mono-segment living donor liver transplant - A single centre experience from Western India
16.22	Arghya Samata	Persistent fever in acute hepatitis: think beyond acute viral hepatitis
16.34	Khan Ilma	Etiology, clinical spectrum and outcome of 360 cases of pediatric acute liver failure (PALF) – Lessons learnt!
16.46 - 16.58	Dharani N	Experience of >1000 cases of acute viral hepatitis from India: Facts and outcome in the present decade

POSTERS

Gastroenterology - Fri Oct 27th 2023
First Author	Title
Lubaba Shahrin	Factors associated with Salmonella typhi bacteremia compared to other isolates among under-five children with diarrheal disease
Naeem Ayub	Amoebic dysentery in children in Ajman
Janhavi Thorat	To study the age-wise prevalence of H. Pylori infection in paediatric population visiting the OPD
Nusrat Jahan Shaly	Pathogens associated with diarrhea in under five children among displaced nationals and neighboring host population in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh
Abu Sadat Mohammed Sayeem Bib Shahid	Digestive tolerability and acceptability of Fibersol-2 in healthy and diarrheal children 1-3 years at a rural facility
Ritu Sharma	Entero-pathogen colonization, gut and systemic inflammatory markers in 6-month-old infants: early insights from AASH cohort study.
Adarsh Kumar	Clinical profile and therapeutic practices related to pediatric inflammatory bowel disease from a tertiary care hospital in south India
Yadav Kavita	Pediatric inflammatory bowel disease: A large data on spectrum and trend of IBD patients over two decades
Motamarri Deepu	A rare presentation of ulcerative colitis in 44-month old child: a case report
Salahuddin Mahmud	Etiology and outcome of lower gastrointestinal bleeding in children
Arghya Samanta	Endoscopic band ligation in blue rubber bleb nevus syndrome: a novel therapeutic approach
Snigdha (presented by Dr Shrish Bhatnagar)	Comparison between PEG 3350 and PEG 4000 for treatment of functional constipation in children aged 4 to 18 years

Nutrition - Sat Oct 28th 2023
First Author	Title
Christine Spray	Irreversible blindness in two children with autism spectrum disorder
Moinak Sen Sarma	Impact of millet-based diet on selenium deficiency in celiac disease
Rafid Hassan (presented by a colleague)	Nutrient adequacy and its associated factors among adolescent girls in rural northern region of Bangladesh

Hepatology - Sat Oct 28th 2023
First Author	Title
Dundigala Kumar	SGOT/SGPT ratio as a biomarker in assessing the severity of the disease in children with acute hepatitis
Salahuddin Mahmud	To evaluate the efficacy, tolerability and safety of sofosbuvir-velpatasvir combination therapy for Bangladeshi children and adolescents
Deepti Ramachandra	Paediatric living donor intestinal transplant (LDIT) - technique, tips and tricks
Deepti Ramachandra	Liver transplant – An evolving option in familial hypercholesterolemia with a complex heterozygous mutation
Kavita Yadav	Primary Liver transplant versus transplant post Kasai in Biliary Atresia – How is it different?

Check out PRIZES given at the CAPGAN 18th Bienniel Conference

Once again, we thank ISPGHAN for their tireless efforts in supporting this joint conference and making it such a great success.
Neelam Mohan, CAPGAN President; Stephen Allen, CAPGAN Secretary; Shrish Bhatnagar, Lead for CAPGAN website