Dr Prithviraj Rao is a Senior Paediatric Gastroenterologist and Clinical lead at Sheffield Children’s Hospital. Whilst in post at the Children's he has taken a lead in streamlining Paediatric Inflammatory bowel disease care, designing hospital protocols as well as initiating and running the first hands on training course in Paediatric upper gastrointestinal endoscopy. He is a regular faculty on National and international summer schools and training courses for Paediatric Wireless capsule enteroscopy, colonoscopy and therapeutic endoscopy. He has had the privilege to work with some of the pioneers in paediatric endoscopy and this has led to expertise in novel techniques like Double balloon enteroscopy, endoscopic pyloromyotomy etc. This has led to multiple international presentations and publication as well as the offer to lecture and teach at international events.

Carmen Ribes Koninckx, MD, PhD Emeritus Researcher . La Fe Research Institute ( from January 2023-) Coordinator of the Coeliac Disease and Gastrointestinal Immunopathology Research Unit. La Fe Health Research Institute Head of the Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition Unit & Coordinator of the Pediatric Cystic Fibrosis Unit La Fe University Hospital ( Valencia) (till January 2023) Scientific Societies: Full member of ESPGHAN where she has been holding the following positions: • Member of the Gastrointestinal Committee of ESPGHAN ( 2 terms) . • Convenor of the National Societies Committee At present she is the Chair ( appointed in May 2017) of the ESPGHAN Coeliac Disease Special interest Group , which includes all working groups on Coeliac disease . Past- President of the Spanish Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition ( 2012-2016 ). Member of the Council of the Spanish Society of Pediatrics ( 2013-2017). Member and co-founder of the Sociedad Española de Enfermedad Celiaca ( SEEC) Member of the Latino –American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition Investigation Activities *Participation in more than 30 clinical trials in the last 10 years as PI or as national coordinator. Over 90 publication in High impact Journals *Main Investigation Area is Coeliac Disease: For more than 20 years, CRK has been involved mainly in research on serological markers in CD (from 1984 onwards), genetics (2002-2009), and environmental factors specially microbiota and gluten and prevention (from 2007 onwards). * she was the Coordinator of the European el Project MyCyFapp, granted by the European Comission througth the Horizonte 2020 Program ( January 2015-December 2018) which aims at the development, validation and implementation of an mHealth tool for self-management and social welfare of children with cystic fibrosis in Europe

Claudio Romano, MD, PhD Associate Professor of Pediatrics Head of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Cystic Fibrosis Unit Department of Human Pathology and Pediatrics University of Messina, Italy President Italian Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition Home address: Via Osservatorio 1, 98121 MESSINA, ITALY Tel. ++39 090 340066 Hospital address: AOU University Hospital, Viale Gazzi, Messina, Italy e-mail: romanoc@unime.it Place and date of birth: Messina, 2nd October 1965 Qualifications: - Degree in Medicine at Messina University in October 1989 with first class honours. - Specialization in Pediatrics at University of Messina, in November 1993 with first class honours - Member of the Italian Pediatric Society (SIP) from 1992 - Member of the Italian Gastroenterology and Epatology Society (SIGEP) from 1997 and Member of the Executive Committee from 2002 - Member of the Italian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (SIAIC) from 1995. - Member of the “Club del Tenue” from 1994. - Member of the American Crohn-Colitis Foundation - Member of the Italian Celiac Foundation (AIC) - Member of AMICI (Chronic Inflammatory Intestinal Diseases Foundation) - Member of the Italian Society of Hospital Gastronterologists (AIGO) from 1998 - International Member of ASGE ( American Society of Digestive Endoscopy) from 2000. - Member of the Italian Society of Digestive Endoscopy - Chairmen of the Italian Working Group on Sedation in Pediatric Endoscopy - Chairmen of the “Bambi Project 2000 ” with the aim of spreading information on the development of Pediatric Digestive Endoscopy in Italy - Member of the ESPGHAN Working Group Endoscopy - Member and Chairmen, respectively, of 2 multicentric working groups (“ Omega 3 in manteinance of remission in Crohn Disease” - “ Beclometasone for induction remission in ulcerative colitis” ) in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases - Scientific Adviser of “INSIEME” the Italian Association of Pediatric and young adult patients with IBD - Number of Medical Licence: n° 6767 - Author of 212 papers and abstracts on Italian and International Journals on IBD, Gastrointestinal Reflux Disease, Abdominal Pain, Pediatric Endoscopy and Coeliac Disease.