UPMC Children's at NASPGHAN 2024

UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh is a global leader in the treatment of childhood conditions and diseases, a pioneer in the development of new and improved therapies, and a top educator of the next generation of pediatricians and pediatric subspecialists. 

We’re excited to be attending NASPGHAN 2024 and would like to officially invite you join us for several UPMC Children's experts presenting at speaking sessions throughout the conference and sharing their research abstracts. 

We also invite you to stop by booth #616 to meet with our faculty to learn more about the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh and our programs. 

NASPGHAN Annual Meeting Presentations/Lecture

Friday, November 8
2:30 - 4:00 PM – Concurrent Session 1
What to do When the Liver is not Cooperating: Liver Dysfunction
Moderators: Victoria Shakhin, MD, CS Mott Children's Hospital of University of Michigan and James Squires, MD, MS, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh

Saturday, November 9
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM - Concurrent Session IV
Thriving Beyond Limits: How to Optimize Care for Intestinal Failure
Moderators: Charles Vanderpool, MD, Riley Hospital for Children and Jeffrey Rudolph, MD, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh

10:30 AM Home is Where the Hard is: Rules and Tools for Discharging a New IF Patient
Lindsey Gumer, MD, Children's Hospital of Colorado and Kimberly Ackerman, MSN, CRNP, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh                

11:32 AM NASPGHAN Foundational/Alcresta Research Award for the Study of Pancreatic Disease in Children Health Utility Measurement in Pediatric Intestinal Failure
Vikram Raghu, MD, MS, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh

Poster Sessions

• 79: PREDICTING BIOCHEMICAL REMISSION IN PEDIATRIC AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS: RETROSPECTIVE DATA FROM A-LINK, A MULTICENTER LEARNING HEALTH NETWORK. UPMC Children’s faculty: Mary Ayers, James Squires

• 87: RACIAL DISPARITIES IN PEDIATRIC LIVER TRANSPLANTATION COSTS IN THE UNITED STATES: AN ANALYSIS UTILIZING LINKAGE OF ADMINISTRATIVE AND CLINICAL REGISTRY DATABASES. UPMC Children’s faculty: Connie Chen, Vikram Raghu

• 141: EXPLORING THE ROLE OF PANCREATIC ENZYME REPLACEMENT THERAPY IN INTESTINAL FAILURE: NUTRITIONAL AND ANTHROPOMETRIC OUTCOMES. UPMC Children’s faculty: Sirine Belaid, Vikram Raghu, Feras Alissa, Jeffrey Rudolph

• 239: A RARE EPIDERMOID CYST OCCURRING WITHIN AN ACCESSORY SPLEEN: A PEDIATRIC CASE REPORT AND LITERATURE REVIEW. UPMC/UPMC Children’s faculty: Sarah Bedoyan, Douglas Lindblad, Adam Slivka

• 260: BIOCHEMICAL REMISSION RATES AND CORTICOSTEROID PRESCRIBING PATTERNS IN A-LINK: RESULTS FROM A PROSPECTIVE, MULTI-CENTER STUDY IN PEDIATRIC AIH UPMC Children’s faculty: Mary Ayers, James Squires

• 337: THE PFIC NETWORK PATIENT REGISTRY: INITIATION AND EARLY ANALYSIS. UPMC Children’s faculty: James Squires

• 347: COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF NITISINONE FOR HEREDITARY TYROSINEMIA USING MARKOV MODELING UPMC Children’s faculty: Patrick McKiernan, Kenneth Smith,Vikram Raghu

• 369: EFFICACY OF INFLIXIMAB BIOSIMILARS FOR PEDIATRIC INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE MANAGEMENT UPMC Children’s faculty: Connie Chen, Alexis Hyczko, Savanah Buhite, Billi Meli, Colin Quinn, Whitney Sunseri

• 470: GASTROINTESTINAL MANIFESTATIONS OF BARAITSER-WINTER CEREBROFRONTOFACIAL SYNDROME IN 2 PEDIATRIC CASES UPMC Children’s faculty: Veronica Lee, Feras Alissa, Jeffrey Rudolph, Vikram Raghu, Sarah Bedoyan, Vibha Sood

• 592: UNUSUAL PRESENTATION OF PEUTZ-JEGHERS SYNDROME: A BLEEDING PROLAPSED RECTAL MASS IN A 17-YEAR-OLD FEMALE UPMC Children’s faculty: Alexander Redman

• 637: IMPROVEMENTS IN SERUM BILE ACIDS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH IMPROVEMENTS IN MARKERS OF LIVER HEALTH AFTER MARALIXIBAT TREATMENT IN CHILDREN WITH PFIC: DATA FROM THE MARCH/MARCH-ON TRIALS UPMC Children’s faculty: Simon Horslen

• 733: WHEN THE SKIN IS TIGHT, IS THE GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT ALRIGHT? UNDERSTANDING GASTROINTESTINAL MANIFESTATIONS IN JUVENILE SYSTEMIC SCLEROSI UPMC Children’s/Pitt faculty: Rebecca Sides, Alexis Hyczko, Sophie Stefancic, Kathryn Torok, Vibha Sood

APGNN Annual Meeting

3:30-5:00pm: Session VI - Nutrition Potpourri/Nutrition, Highs and Lows
4:30- 5:00pm: Under and Overnutrition of tube fed patients
Victoria Powell, NP, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh