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The 6th International Symposium on Peadiatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease (PIBD) was held on September 7-10, 2022, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Highlights of several featured presentations regarding nutrition and diet are included below.

Digestive Disease Week (DDW) 2022 was held May 21-24, 2022, in San Diego, CA. Highlights of some of the featured presentations and a few posters are included below.

The 17th Congress of the European Crohn's and Colitis Organisation (ECCO) was held virtually Feb 16-19, 2022. Highlights of some of the featured presentations and a few posters are included below, including the opportunity to view the Nestlé Health Science Nutritional Symposium.

The Crohn's and Colitis Congress was held virtually on January 20-22, 2022. The following are some of the nutritional highlights

The North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition (NASPGHAN) 2021 conference was held virtually December 12-18, 2021. The following are some of the nutritional highlights.

Advances in Inflammatory Bowel Disease 2021 was held in a hybrid model from December 9th-11th in Orlando, Florida. Below are the nutritional highlights from AIBD 2021

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The American College of Gastroenterology Conference was held live Oct. 22-27 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Nutritional highlights are found in the link below.

The United European Gastroenterology Conference was held virtually October 3-5, 2021. Nutritional highlights from the meeting include the following:

New Advances in Nutritional Management of Pediatric Crohn's Disease

This symposium was presented at the World Congress of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition 2021 and is available to stream here or on the Nutritional Symposia page. Novel dietary concepts are discussed. Preliminary results are included from the CD-HOPE trial evaluating the use of cyclic EEN (2 weeks of EEN every 8 weeks) as primary therapy in a pediatric population. A new “dietary responsive” phenotype is proposed. Preliminary data from adults utilizing CDED is reviewed.

The 16th Congress of the European Crohn's and Colitis Organisation was held virtually on July 2-3 and July 8-10, 2021. Below find a list of some of the nutritional highlights from the meeting.