Managing a Child with Chronic Belly Pain: Interdisciplinary Approach to Functional Abdominal Pain Wednesday November 12, 2025 8PM EST Functional abdominal pain disorders are a group of disorders of the gut-brain interaction (DGBIs) and affect up to 25% of children worldwide. Children with FAPDs have an impaired quality of life along with significant risk of
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In this episode of Bowel Sounds, hosts Dr. Peter Lu and Dr. Jenn Lee talk to Dr. Kevin Watson, pediatric gastroenterologist and Assistant Director of Clinical Informatics at Akron Children's Hospital and Associate Professor at Northeastern Ohio Medical University. We talk about the use of AI-powered ambient listening technology for clinical documentation and his experience
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Episode 38 – Countdown to Chicago: What’s Ahead at the CPNP Nutrition Symposium In this episode of Nutrition Pearls: the Podcast, host Nikki Misner speaks with Dr. Brock Williams and Tamara Sims Dorway about the upcoming CPNP Nutrition Symposium at the annual NASPGHAN meeting on November 6-8th in Chicago, Illinois. Brock Williams is a Registered
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Congratulations! We appreciate NASPGHAN’s member engagement during the election and are grateful for the commitment of the candidates to help shape the future of the society and the field of pediatric gastroenterology, hepatology, and nutrition.
read more In this episode, hosts Drs. Temara Hajjat and Jenn Lee talk to Dr. Jordan Whatley, Assitant Professor of Pediatrics at the Medical University of South Carolina and pediatric gastroenterologist at Shawn Jenkins Children's Hospital in Charleston, South Carolina. We discuss how multi-specialty clinics focusing on children with tracheostomy and ventilator dependence can improve clinical care.
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Samuel Nurko, MD, MPH, is a Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and Co-Director of the Center for Motility and Functional Bowel Disorders at Boston Children’s Hospital. He was born and raised in Mexico City, where he completed his medical education at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. He moved to the U.S. in
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Still looking to add Hands On Endoscopy skills to your 2025 NASPGHAN Annual Meeting personal agenda? We’re excited to share that NEW skills and NEW time slots have have been added! Visit the Annual Meeting agenda here and register today!
read more In this episode of Bowel Sounds, hosts Dr. Peter Lu and Dr. Jason Silverman talk to Dr. Amber Hildreth, pediatric gastroenterologist and transplant hepatologist at Rady Children's Hospital and Assistant Professor at the University of California San Diego. She is also a clinician scientist at the Rady Children's Institute for Genomic Medicine. We discuss how
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NASPGHAN is proud to recognize National Hispanic-Latine/x Heritage Month from September 15th to October 15th and acknowledge the contributions of our members with Hispanic-Latine/x heritage. The 2020 U.S. census identified 62.1 (18.7%) million Hispanic and/or Latino people in the U.S. This was based on self-reports of those who identify as Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, or
read more EPIsode 37 – Lauren Storch – Nutrition in Exocrine Pancreatic Insufficiency (EPI) and TPIAT (you see what we did there) In this episode of Nutrition Pearls: the Podcast, co-hosts Jen Smith and Nikki Misner speak with Lauren Storch on nutrition in patients with exocrine pancreatic insufficiency (EPI). Lauren works as a registered dietitian at Nationwide
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The Association of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition Nurses
Help & Hope for Children with Digestive Disorders
Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition
JPGN Reports