Bowel Sounds: The Pediatric GI Podcast NASPGHAN

In this episode, hosts Drs. Peter Lu and Jennifer Lee talk to Dr. Ruba Abdelhadi about enteral nutrition and feeding tubes.Dr. Abdelhadi is a pediatric gastroenterologist at Children's Mercy in Kansas City, MO where she is the Director of Nutrition Support Program. She is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine.Learning Objectives:Define enteral nutrition and patient populations who may benefit from enteral nutrition therapy.Understand the types,...

In this episode, hosts Drs. Peter Lu and Temara Hajjat talk to Dr. Tanaz Danialifar about diagnosing and treating disaccharidase deficiencies in children, including lactase deficiency and congenital sucrase-isomaltase deficiency (CSID). Dr. Danialifar is a pediatric gastroenterologist at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, where she is Associate Director of their Gastroenterology Fellowship Program, and an Assistant Professor at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.Learning Objectives:Recogni...

In this episode, hosts Drs. Temara Hajjat and Peter Lu talk to Dr. Arun Singh about some of the challenges we face when caring for children with celiac disease. Dr. Singh is Co-Director and Research Program Director of the Center for Celiac Disease at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and an Assistant Professor in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.Learning Objectives:Understand the latest gluten challenge recommendations to help facilitate celiac dis...

In this episode, hosts Drs. Temara Hajjat and Peter Lu talk to Dr. Maria Oliva-Hemker about diagnosing and managing Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) in children who have inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Dr. Oliva-Hemker is the Director of the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition and the Stermer Family Professor for Pediatric IBD at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She is also the Vice Dean for Faculty and the Mary Wallace Stanton Professor...

In this episode, hosts Drs. Jason Silverman and Temara Hajjat talk to Drs. Michael Narkewicz and Zachary Sellers about screening, evaluation and management of children with cystic fibrosis with hepatobiliary involvement and advanced CF liver disease. We review the new consensus recommendations paper published in the May issue of Hepatology (open access link below). Dr. Narkewicz is a pediatric gastroenterologist and transplant hepatologist at Children’s Hospital Colorado and profes...

In this episode, hosts Drs. Peter Lu and Temara Hajjat talk to Dr. Jason Silverman about how social media can be used in pediatric gastroenterology for patient care, research, medical education, and professional development. Dr. Silverman is an Associate Professor in the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition at Stollery Children's Hospital, where he is also the Program Director for the Pediatric Gastroenterology training program and co-lead for the CHildren's Intestinal Re...