2026 Annual Meeting Agenda

APGNN Short Program Agenda October 23 & 24th 2026

Friday October 23rd (Full day)

7:30am-8:00am: Breakfast & Welcome

8:00am-9:15am: Session I – Keynote Speaker & APGNN Year in Review 

8:00am-9:00am: Uncovering the Health Impacts of Climate Change
Dr. Beth Karlin- See Change Institute 

9:00am-9:15am: APGNN Year in Review
     Whitney Gray, CRNP, MS, RN, FNP-C -  APGNN President
9:15am-9:30am: Coffee with Committee Chairs &Break
9:30am-12pm: Session II -Disorder of Gut/Brain Interaction (DGBI)
9:30am-10:00am: DGBI Triage-TBD
10:00am - 10:30am: Hot off the Press-Rome 5 Updates
     Rachael Rosen, MD - Boston Children’s Hospital 

    10:30am - 11:00am: Hopeful and helpful: practical tips for delivering DGBI diagnoses
     Jessica Buzenski PhD - Emory

11:00am - 11:30am: Bridging the Brain and Belly-Modern Meds for DGBI
Julie Banda, PNP - Children’s Wisconsin

     11:30am - 12:00pm: Beyond the meds - Hypnosis and Behavioral Interventions 
Robin Shannon, PNP -  M Health Fairview Minneapolis
12:00-1:30pm: Lunch and Poster Session
1:30-3:00pm: Session III - EOE & Allergic Conditions

1:30pm-2:00pm: Updates on EGID’s
Diana Montoya, MD - UAB

2:00pm-2:30pm: Dietary Elimination Strategies for Eosinophilic Esophagitis (EOE)
Kelsie Mathews, RD - Children’s Health   

2:30pm-3:00pm: Eosinophilic Esophagitis (EoE): Medication Updates on PPIs, Swallowed Topical Steroids, Biologics, Small Molecules, and Long-Term Safety Considerations
Andrew Dickerson, MD - UC San Diego 
 3:00pm- 3:30pm: APGNN Awards & Presentations - with snacks provided by APGNN
Patient and Professional Education Award 
Poster of Distinction
Susan Moyer Research Grant
Announcing current year’s winner

3:30pm-5:30pm: Session IV - Hot Topics

3:30pm-4:00pm: ARFID Beyond Picky Eating
Michelle Roach, CPNP-PC - Mercy Children’s Hospital

4:00pm - 4:30pm: Building Career Capital- Influence, Income, and Impact 
 Sandy Kim, MD - Cleveland Clinic & Amy Donegan, CPNP- Nationwide Children’s  

4:30pm-5:30pm: The Great Debate: AI in GI -  Enhancing Precision, Safety, Efficiency, and Patient Outcomes 
John Rosen, MD - Arkansas Children’s & Kevin Watson, MD - Akron Children’s 
6:00pm: APGNN Social Event

Saturday October 24th 

 8:00-8:30am: Breakfast & Welcome 
 8:30-10:00am: Session V - Pancreas
     8:30am - 9:00am: Updates on acute, recurrent, and chronic pancreatitis 
Kayla Deatley, FNP - Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
9:00am - 9:30am: Pancreatic insufficiency beyond CF 
Nishant Patel, MD - Arnold Palmer
9:30am - 10:00am: CF management QI Talk
Meghana Sathe, MD - UTSW, Prigi Varghese, CPNP- PC - Children’s Health, & Jessica Jones, RD - Children’s Health 
10:00-10:30am: Break 
10:30- 12:00pm Session VI - GI Potpourri
10:30am - 11:00am: Improving Sleep to Optimize GI Outcomes
Bonney Reed, PhD - Children's Mercy

11:00am - 11:30am: All you need to know for the care of  Enteral Tubes 
Kathleen Carr, DNP- Boston Children’s 
11:30am - 12:00pm: VEO-IBD workup
Edwin DeZoeten, MD - Children’s Hospital of Colorado
 
12:00-2:00pm Lunch and Poster Session
2:00pm - 6:00pm: NASPGHAN Concurrent Sessions 
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm: Concurrent Session VII - Against the Grain: New Frontiers from Diagnosis to Diet
Moderators: Terry Sigman, MD, FRCPC, Montreal Children's Hospital and Dale Lee, MD, Seattle Children's Hospital

2:00 pm: From Symptoms to Solutions: Innovations Revolutionizing Celiac Detection
Marisa Gallant Stahl, MD, MSCS, Children's Hospital Colorado

2:25 pm:  Standardization of Gluten Challenge for Immunologic Diagnosis of Celiac Disease in Children
Jocelyn Silvester, MD, PhD, Boston Children's Hospital

2:37 pm:  Reality Bites: Keeping Adolescent GFD Patients on Track
TBD

3:02 pm:  Precision Follow-Up: Best Practices for Surveillance in Celiac Disease
Imad Absah, MD, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
3:45 PM - 5:15 pm: Concurrent Session VIII - Scrolls, Selectivity, and Special Diets: Pediatric Feeding in the Real World
Moderators: Richard Noel, MD PhD, Baylor College of Medicine At CHRISTUS Children's Hospital and Atu Agawu, MD MPH MSCE, Children's Hospital Los Angeles

3:45 pm:  Diagnostic and treatment considerations at the intersection of PFD/ARFID
Colleen Lukens, PhD, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

4:10 pm:  Gluten Free Nutrition Optimization Through Ultra-Processed Food Reduction and Improved Strategies for Health (GF-Nourish)
Nan Du, MD, Boston Children's Hospital

4:22 pm:  TikTok Diets in Clinic: Managing Misinformation
Venus Kalami, MNSP, RD, CSP, Lucile Packard Stanford Children's Health 

​4:47 pm:  Abstract