CDDW™ 2018 abstracts are published online in the Journal of the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology. View them here.
Friday, February 9, 2018
Postgraduate Course: Acute Care/Emergencies
- Variceal Bleeding Ram Subramanian, Emory University
Postgraduate Course: Advancing Care
- Colonoscopy Key Performance Indicators: What do they tell you? John Anderson, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Pediatric Endoscopy Training and Future Learning Catharine Walsh, University of Toronto
Postgraduate Course: Functional Disorders
- State of the Art: Management of Irritable Bowel Syndrome William Chey, University of Michigan
- Treatment Advances Adriana Lazarescu, University of Alberta
Saturday, February 10, 2018
Breakfast with the Experts
- Anticoagulation/Novel Oral Anticoagulants (NOACS) and Reversal Deborah Siegal, McMaster University and Brian Yan, Western University
- Food Allergy/Intolerance: A practical approach to diagnosis Donald Duerksen, University of Manitoba and Julia Upton, University of Toronto
Symposium: Autoimmune Hepatobiliary Disease
- Pediatric Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis Pamela Valentino, Yale University School of Medicine
Symposium: Endoscopy in 2018
- Colon Cancer Screening Issues Roland Valori, Gloucestershire Royal Hospital
Symposium: What’s New in Viral Hepatitis
- Viral Hepatitis: What’s New in Children? Karen Murray, University of Washington School of Medicine
Small Group Session
- IBD and Liver Disease Peter Church, University of Toronto and Gilaad Kaplan, University of Calgary
- High Resolution Esophageal Manometry Yvonne Tse, University of Toronto and Geoffrey Turnbull, Dalhousie University
- Using IBD Scoring Systems Talet Bessissow, McGill University; Mallory Chavennes, University of Montreal; and Lara Hart, McMaster University
- Gastric Cases: Polyps and surveillance for gastric intestinal metaplasia Fergal Donnellan, University of British Columbia and Carol Durno, University of Toronto
- Malnutrition in Pediatric In-Patients Margaret Boland, University of Ottawa and Kevan Jacobson, University of British Columbia
- Colonic Endoscopic Mucosal Resection Steven Heitman, University of Calgary and Ralph Lee, University of Ottawa
Sunday, February 11, 2018
Breakfast with the Experts
- Pain Management in Gastroenterology Opioids: More? Less? Norman Buckley, McMaster University and Mark MacMillan, Dalhousie University
Symposium: Celiac Disease: Removing the fog
- Pitfalls in the Diagnosis and Clinical Management of Celiac Disease Benjamin Lebwohl, Columbia University
- Are we Close to a Pharmacological Therapy for Celiac Disease? Ciarán Kelly, Harvard Medical School
Symposium: Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
- Pre and Post Liver Transplantation Issues in NAFLD Karim Qumosani, University of Western Ontario
- Current and Emerging Therapies for Non-Alcohol Steatohepatitis (NASH) Marco Puglia, McMaster University
Symposium: Managing Complications of End-Stage Liver Disease
- Renal Disease in End Stage Liver Disease Mitchell Shiffman, Liver Institute of Virginia
- Challenges in the Diagnosis and Management of Hepatic Encephalopathy Cynthia Tsien, University of Ottawa
Symposium: Management of IBD in 2018
- Management of IBD in 2018 Waqqas Afif, McGill University
Small Group Sessions
- Barrett’s Esophagus in 2018 Jeffrey Mosko, University of Toronto and Clarence Wong, University of Alberta
- Nutritional Assessment in Chronic Diseases Adam Raman, Western University and Justine Turner, University of Alberta
- Anorectal Dysmotility: Dyssynergia and Pelvic Floor Disorders Christopher Andrews, University of Calgary and Louis Liu, University of Toronto
- Small Bowel Crohn’s Disease Peter Church, University of Toronto and Smita Halder, McMaster University
- Social Media Tools for Gastroenterology Care, Education, and Science Eric Benchimol, University of Ottawa and Jason Silverman, University of Alberta
- H. pylori Updates Naoki Chiba, McMaster University and Sander Veldhuyzen van Zanten, University of Alberta
- Improving your Detection Rate Jerry McGrath, Memorial University and Jill Tinmouth, University of Toronto
- Integrating Fibroscan into your Practice Naoki Chiba, McMaster University and Marco Puglia, McMaster University
- Microbiota and What the Clinical Gastroenterologist Needs to Know Premysl Bercik, McMaster University and Michael Surette, McMaster University
- Refractory Esophageal Strictures Peggy Marcon, University of Toronto and Charles Ménard, Université de Sherbrooke