Simon Eaton received his PhD in Biochemistry and Metabolism in 1993 from University of Newcastle. Following this, he moved to UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health in London to the Paediatric Surgery Unit and developed an interest in metabolism and nutrition in neonatal and paediatric critical illness, including parenteral nutrition, necrotizing enterocolitis, and sepsis, collaborating with paediatric surgeons, gastroenterologists, intensivists, speech and language therapists and dieticians. He runs a research laboratory which analyses a variety of metabolites and samples for isotopic tracer studies of body composition, energy expenditure, breast milk intake etc.

I am a pediatric gastroenterologist and hepatologist focusing on liver diseases and transplantation. After my pediatric training in Bern Switzerland, I completed a 3 year pediatric GI and an additional one-year transplant fellowship at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada. After my speciality training, I returned to my home city and alma mater in Munich, established a pediatric liver transplant program, and took over the division head position in 2020. My research interest lies in improving the overall outcomes for children with GI and liver diseases, establishing novel and objective biomarkers such as sarcopenia and frailty to early identify those children with the highest need for interventions and pre-habilitation, treatment options for children with cholestasis, as well as pediatric non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and potential minimal invasive endoscopic bariatric procedures, to avoid long term comorbidities and improve quality of life.

Dr Roisin Egan is a specialist registrar on the paediatric higher specialist training scheme through the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland. She has nine publications and presented at meetings such as the European Paediatric Congress and the Irish Paediatric Association Annual Conference. She hopes to peruse a career in Gastroenterology/Hepatology.

I am a pediatric gastroenterologist since 1999 and working in a university hospital. I had professor degree in pediatric gastroenterology since 2009. My areas of expertise: Inflammatory bowl disease - Celiac disease - Helicobacter pylori

Professor Johanna (Hankje) Escher is a Pediatric Gastroenterologist and is Head of the Pediatric Gastroenterology Department of the Erasmus MC-Sophia Children’s Hospital in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Her research focus is on pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease (PIBD), with publications on disease phenotype, treatment and transition. Professor Escher is the initiator of EUROKIDS, an ongoing multicenter European prospective PIBD registry, now harboring data of over 6000 PIBD patients. She has chaired the international Porto IBD working group of ESPGHAN (2007-2001), was a frontline P-ECCO committee member (2010-2013) and is now an active member of the Porto IBD working group of ESPGHAN as well as member of the operational board of PIBD-net. Prof. Escher has authored over 120 international publications concerning pediatric IBD. Together with her 6 PhD students she is currently working on new treatments in pediatric IBD, psychosocial aspects of pediatric IBD, and the outcome of transitional care. She is the initiator of the Erasmus MC transition working group that aims at developing and implementing a blueprint for transitional care for all adolescents transitioning to adult healthcare in the Erasmus MC.