Noa Tal-Shifman, MD (Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Ph.D. ( Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University) Dr. Tal completed a Pediatric Residency at Schneider Children's Medical Center in Israel and is currently in the middle of her Pediatric Gastroenterology Fellowship program. Lecturer, Pediatrics, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel -Aviv University. Young investigator award - ESPGHAN 55th meeting, Vienna 2023.

Dr Tambucci, MD, PhD, is a pediatric gastroenterologist at Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital (OPBG) in Rome, Italy. He works at the Digestive Endoscopy and Surgery Unit at OPBG that acts as national and international reference center for pediatric complex GI disorders offering a comprehensive range of advanced diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, such as endoscopy (including ERCP, EUS and POEM) and motility testing (including esophageal HRIM, and antroduodenal and colonic manometry with solid state catheters). Dr Tambucci cares for children with a broad range of disorders but his primary clinical and research interests embrace the neurogastroenterology and motility disorders. He lead of the motility diagnostic lab where diagnostic investigations are performed with the most advanced equipment.

Born in the north of Portugal. Medical school graduation at the Faculty of Medicine - University of Porto in 1996. Paediatric gastroenterology fellowship in 2012 under supervision of Jorge Amil Dias at Hospital de São João. Currently working as a senior paediatric gastroenterologist at Centro Materno Infantil do Norte in Porto. Chair of Portuguese paediatric endoscopy society (2021-2023). Member of Young ESPGHAN Committee (2011-2014). Active member in Endoscopy Special Interest Group and its research collaborative work. Regular faculty member in the ESPGHAN Endoscopy Learning Zone at ESPGHAN meetings. Currently the secretary of SIG-HP group of ESPGHAN, engaging research and educational activities of the group.

Rachel Tayler has been a paediatric gastroenterology consultant in Glasgow since 2015. Her interests are Hepatology and IBD. She developed her interest in Hepatology during her training at the Paediatric liver unit in Leeds, UK. Rachel is Hepatology Lead for the west of Scotland.

Professor Nikhil Thapar is Director of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Liver Transplant at Queensland Children’s Hospital, Brisbane, Australia leading a specialist clinical service for children with gastrointestinal motility and functional disorders. He has published widely and is co-editor of the textbook of Paediatric Neurogastroenterology and associate editor (motility) of the Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition. He is chair-elect of the paediatric faculty of the Gastroenterology Society of Australia and chair of the Neurogastroenterology and Motility working group of the Asia Pan-Pacific Society of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition. He sits on the Rome V committee, the international body for the diagnosis and clinical management of disorders of gut brain interaction. He was previously chair of the Gastroenterology Committee of ESPGHAN and Head of the Neurogastroenterology and Motility service at Great Ormond Street Hospital (London, UK).

I use genetics and molecular biology to unravel physiology and pathophysiology. Through these methods we can make more accurate diagnoses and develop better treatments.

Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterologist MBChB DCH FRCPCH FRCP MD Paediatric Gastroenterologist and Professor at the Centre for Paediatric Gastroenterology in Sheffield. He graduated from Aberdeen Medical School in 1985 and started paediatric gastroenterology training in 1987/8. In the early 1990s he spent five years working in Australia, as a Clinical Research Fellow in gastroenterology and cystic fibrosis at the Royal Children's Hospital Foundation in Brisbane with Prof Ross Shepherd. While there he was awarded his Medical Doctorate on cystic fibrosis genetics and energy expenditure. Professor Thomson's interests include endoscopy training and interventional endoscopy. His first position when he moved back to the UK was as a Child Health Lecturer in the Liver Transplant Unit at Birmingham Children's Hospital with Prof Deirdre Kelly. He was subsequently, in 1995, appointed as a Consultant at the Royal Free Hospital at the Unit of one of the founders of modern day paediatric gastroenterology, Prof John Walker-Smith. He also leads the ESPGHAN Endoscopy Working Group. He has organized and runs the foremost Hands-On Paediatric Endoscopy Training Courses in the world – both diagnostic and therapeutic. He has pioneered the use of minimally invasive endoscopic treatments for many pathologies in childhood over the past 35 years. He has published more than 250 peer-reviewed articles and also over 100 invited reviews and heads a large research group. He has led and co-authored more than 50 Guidelines and position papers for ESPGHAN and NASPGHAN. He is author of over 60 Paediatric GI Chapters in International Textbooks and is co-author of 7 paediatric textbooks including the standard text for MRCPCH, ‘Concise Paediatrics’. He has co-edited the textbook which is now the standard text for the paediatric oesophagus and stomach and has written the major textbook on paediatric endoscopy. ‘Practical Pediatric Gastrointestinal Endoscopy’. This has 50 Chapters with contributions from the best in this field and deals with all aspects of this fascinating discipline. Hundreds of endoscopy trainees have come through the Sheffield International Academy of Paediatric Endoscopy Training. He has engineered the ESPGHAN Endoscopy Fellowship programme now in its 5th year and started the Endoscopy Learning Zone at the Annual ESPGHAN Meeting now in its 7th year. He is passionate about excellence in paediatric endoscopy and minimally invasive approaches to luminal and extra-luminal problems – although working closely with paediatric surgeons his vision is to make them redundant by application of techniques such as endoscopic anti-reflux procedures and all other natural orifice endoscopic therapeutic techniques. Mike.thomson1@nhs.uk paprofthomson@hcahealthcare.co.uk www.paediatricgastroenterologist.co.uk

Education: Master of Medicine, University of Copenhagen 1997-2004. PhD Programme, Faculty of Medicine Lund University 2016 - ongoing Current position: Paediatrician/Senior Consultant. Head of section for Paediatric Infectious Disease and Paediatric Emergency Medicine at the Department of Paediatrics at Skane University Hospital. Research of interest: Infant nutrition and growth. Nutritional strategies for childhood obesity prevention. Publication: Tinghäll Nilsson U, Hernell O, Lönnerdal B, Hartvigsen ML, Jacobsen LN, Kvistgaard AS, et al. Low-Protein Formulas with Alpha-Lactalbumin-Enriched or Glycomacropeptide-Reduced Whey: Effects on Growth, Nutrient Intake and Protein Metabolism during Early Infancy: A Randomized, Double-Blinded Controlled Trial. Nutrients. 2023;15(4). Conference Abstract: Low-protein formula with improved protein quality during early infancy affects growth and metabolism at 12 months of age. ESPGHAN 55th Annual Meeting, Vienna 17-20 May 2023. Low-protein infant formulas with alpha-lactalbumin-enriched whey or glycomacropeptidereduced whey: effects on growth, nutrient intake and protein metabolism during the first six months of life: a randomized double blinded controlled trial. ESPGHAN 54th Annual Meeting, Copenhagen 22-25 June 2022. Outcome of surfactant-treated infants in a level III neonatal unit 1995 vs 1998. The 15th International workshop on Surfactant Replacement, Kos 2-3 June 2000.