THURSDAY DECEMBER 11, 2025

08.15-08.45 Registration with coffee and tea
08.45-10.15  SESSION 5: TOWARDS BETTER IBD PATIENT CARE
  Chairs: Nanne de Boer (Amsterdam, NL) and Marjolijn Duijvestein (Nijmegen, NL)
08.45-09.10 Measuring and improving quality of care:
lessons from Sweden
Siew Ng (Hong Kong, CN)
09.10-09.35 What do patients expect? Jonas Halvarsson (Orebrö, SE)
09.35-09.45 Patients’ perceptions of surgery for inflammatory bowel disease Salvo Leone (Brussels, BE)
09.45-10.05 Affordability, sustainability and availability of global IBD care Antonino Spinelli (Milano, IT)
10.05-10.15 PANEL DISCUSSION Chairs and speakers session 5
10.15-10.40 COFFEE BREAK
10.40-12.00 SESSION 6: UNDERSTANDING POSTOPERATIVE RECURRENCE
  Chairs: Willem Bemelman (Amsterdam, NL) and Annemarie de Vries (Rotterdam, NL)
10.40-10.50 Challenging Case 4 Maxime Bronswaer (Amsterdam, NL)
10.50-11.10 The earliest changes: which cells drive the show? Nick Powell (London, GB)
11.10-11.35 The optimal clinical approach:
Prevention versus reversal of inflammation
Mark Silverberg, Toronto (CA)
11.35-11.55 Surgical attemps to prevent recurrence Paulo Kotze (Curitiba, BR)
11.55-12.05 PANEL DISCUSSION Chairs and speakers session 6
12.05-12.15 ICA RESEARCH FLASH 3
Imaging and point-of-care follow-up of postop Crohn’s disease

Maarten Pruijt (Amsterdam, NL and Barts Health NHS, UK)
12.15-13.00 SATELLITE 3 Program to follow
13.00-13.45 LUNCH
13.45-14.00  SESSION 7: DIFFICULT COLITIS: ARE POUCHES STILL THE WAY TO GO?
  Chairs: Mark Silverberg (Toronto, CA), Rogier Goetgebuer and Roel Hompes (Amsterdam, NL)
13.45-14.10 Chronic pouchitis: novel insights in the pathogenesis and avenues for treatment Ailsa Hart (London, GB)
14.10-14.35 The road to optimised pouch surgery André D’Hoore (Leuven, BE)
14.35-14.45 PANEL DISCUSSION Chairs and speakers session 3
14.45-15.40 SESSION 8: INTESTINAL INFLAMMATION BEYOND CROHN’S DISEASE
Chairs: Nicholas Powell (London, GB) and Gerd Bouma (Amsterdam, NL)
14.45-14.55  Challenging case 5 Steven Bots (Amsterdam, NL)
14.55-15.15 Refractory celiac disease: avenues for management Gerd Bouma (Amsterdam, NL)
15.15-15.40 Rare immune diseases of the gut: diagnosis and approach Michael Schumann (Berlin, DE)
15.40-16.00 AFTERNOON TEA
16.00-16.45 SATELLITE 4 Program to follow
16.45-17.00 SESSION 9: IBD ‘OUT OF THE BOX’ INNOVATION
Chairs: Bas Oldenburg (Utrecht, NL) and Vipul Jairath (London ON, CA)
16.45-17.05  Targeted microbiome interventions for
inflammatory disorders: hope or illusion?
Rinse Weersma (Groningen, NL)
17.05-17.25 mRNAi a therapeutic agents Xavier Treton (Paris, FR)
17.25-17.35 Q&A  
17.35-18.00 KEYNOTE LECTURE
  Introduction Christianne Buskens (Amsterdam, NL)
  Lessons learned in 30 years of multi-disciplinary IBD surgery Willem Bemelman (Amsterdam, NL)
18.00-18.30 DRINKS AND FAREWELL

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