2026 Annual Meeting Agenda

APGNN Program Agenda October 23 & 24th, 2026

Friday October 23rd (Full day)

• 1. Describe the ways climate change affects children's physical and mental health, including impacts from extreme heat, poor air quality, infectious disease, severe weather, and climate-related stress.
• 2. Explain why children are uniquely vulnerable to climate-related health risks and how these risks disproportionately affect some families and communities.
• 3. Recognize the role healthcare professionals can play in supporting climate resilience through patient education, mental health support, emergency preparedness, and trusted communication.
• 4. Identify practical opportunities to help children and families prepare for and adapt to the health impacts of a changing climate.

• 1. Discuss how to triage symptoms of DGBI vs an acute pathology
• 2. Review how to efficiently evaluate current symptoms to guide next steps in plan of care
• 3. Evaluate current mental health status and discern any worsening negative impacts on daily function
• 4. Provide education for families to help support patient and family unit as they work through symptoms

• 1. Describe what a DGBI is, and what it isn't in patient friendly terms
• 2. Identify helpful phrases and examples to improve patient understanding and engagement
• 3. Note benefits to increasing collaboration with other providers treating DGBI and your patients in particular

• 1. Discuss indications, efficacy, and safety of pharmacologic neuromodulators in pediatric gastroenterology
• 2. Describe mechanisms of neuromodulation therapies, including central and peripheral approaches that target neural signaling in the GI tract
• 3. Describe the clinician's approach to joint medical decision making, patient education and monitoring with the use of pharmacologic treatments for pediatric disorders of gut-brain interaction

• 1. Discuss the importance of communication and therapeutic relationships in the management of DGBI.
• 2. Understand the role of patient education in the treatment of DGBI
• 3. Describe evidence based non-pharmacological treatments

• 1. Recognize the clinical presentations of. Non-EoE EGID’s in pediatric patients and identify key feature that distinguish them from more common GI conditions.
• 2. Apply the joint ESPGHAN/NASPGHAN diagnostic framework for childhood nonEoE EGID’s, including site-specific histologic thresholds and the systematic exclusion of secondary causes of GI eosinophilia.
• 3. Summarize current treatment strategies for pediatric non-EoE EGIDs and discuss the emerging evidence for the use of biologics
• 4. Describe the natural history of non-EoE EGIDs in children and identify current gaps in monitoring and long-term management that affect clinical follow-up planning.

• 1. Describe the different approaches to dietary elimination for management of EoE including the step-up and step-down approaches
• 2. Highlight common nutritional gaps amongst patients on food eliminations
• 3. Identify meaningful intervention strategies that promote nutrient inclusion and variety

• 1. Review recommended treatment guidelines for medication management with PPIs, Topical Steroids, and Dupilumab.
• 2. Identify known and unknown long-term risks of medication management
• 3. Describe the process of shared decision making: choosing the correct treatment for each patient
• 4. Discuss the decision to escalate or de-escalate therapy
• 5. Discuss what the future holds: dual therapy, new biologics, and small molecules.

• 1. Differentiate ARFID and Pediatric Feeding Disorder.
• 2. Obtain and interpret a detailed feeding history.
• 3. Identify early indicators of feeding difficulties, including faltering growth, failureto progress with age-appropriate feeding, extreme selectivity, and suspected oral-motor dysfunction/dysphagia.
• 4. Identify red flags and identify when to initiate referral.

• 1. Understand the role of
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