• Welcome - Rob Enns
• Quality Indicators in Upper Endoscopy: 2025 and Beyond - Chris Teshima
• Gastric Cancer Screening and Prevention
• H. Pylori: To Treat or Not to Treat - George Ou
• Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease: when PPI fails
• Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding: tips and tricks for achieving hemostasis
• Panel Discussion

• GI Bleeding: Tools and Tips for the Team 
• Management of EoE: Review of the New Canadian Consensus and Case-Based discussion - Hin Hin Ko
• Video Session – Potpourri

• Esophageal cancer: A surgical approach - Sharon Ong
• Early esophageal cancer and its precursors: An endoscopic approach - Chris Teshima
• Duodenal Polyps: Measure twice, cut once
• Video Session – Name that lesion (Enhanced imaging)

• ERCP/EUS: Tools and Tips for the Team - Ian Gan
• Radiation Safety

• Pancreatic Cancer Screening - risks vs benefits - Ian Gan
• Pancreatic Cysts - surveillance and when to act - Lawrence Hookey
• Post ERCP pancreatitis - best prevention - Erin Wishart
• Choledochal cysts - patient selection and workup 
• Video Session - HPB - Eric Lam

• CSP Update - Laura Gentile
• New Guidelines on Colonoscopy Quality - Catherine Dubé
• My Approach to a Difficult Colonoscopy - Scott Cowie
• The Pathology of the Pathologist's Report - David Schaeffer
• Post-polypectomy Surveillance - Catherine Dubé
• Updated on Bowel Preparations - Lawrence Hookey

• Electrosurgical Units: Tools and Tips for the Team
• How to improve my ADR and SSLDR - Jennifer Telford
• Panel Discussion - Jennifer Telford, Catherine Dube, Lawrence Hookey, Scott Cowie, David Schaeffer

• Polyposis: A gastroenterologist’s perspective - Jennifer Telford
• Polyposis: A surgeon’s perspective - Elena Vikis
• How to perform a high quality EMR - Neal Shahidi
• Riding the wave: applications for underwater endoscopy
• Perianal disease: everything an endoscopist needs to know - Magdalena Recsky

• Tissue closure: Tools and Tips for the Team - Neal Shahidi
• Rectal Neuroendocrine tumors: from recognition to removal - Ahmer Karimuddin 
• T1 Colorectal cancer management: A multi- disciplinary approach - Neal Shahidi & Ahmer Karimuddin
• Panel discussion - Jennifer Telford
• Video session - Colon - Neal Shahidi

• Welcome - Yvette Leung
• The IBD Patient Journey: Care Pathways and Multidisciplinary Support - Astrid Williams and Shelby Friesen
• Top IBD articles published in 2025
• Colorectal Cancer Screening in IBD: Guidelines and endoscopic techniques to enhance dysplasia detection - Neal Shahidi
• Acute severe UC: assessment, risk stratification and timing of advanced therapy
• Q&A moderated by Brian Bressler

• Case 1 - Brian Bressler
• Case 2 - Astrid Williams
• Case 3 - Greg Rosenfeld
• Case 4 - Yvette Leung
• Panel: Challenging IBD Cases - Brian Bressler, Astrid Williams, Greg Rosenfeld and Yvette Leung

Moderator: Yvette Leung

• Pouch disease - Medical
• Pouch disease - Surgical - Ahmer Karimuddin
• Perianal Crohn’s - Medical - Greg Rosenfeld
• Perianal Crohn’s - Surgical
• Q&A

• Medical - Astrid Williams
• Surgical - Anu Ghuman
• Q&A - Moderator: Yvette Leung
• Panel: Ahmer Karimuddin, Brian Bressler, Astrid Williams, Anu Ghuman and Greg Rosenfeld

Moderator: Brian Bressler

• Nutritional therapy in IBD: Emerging evidence and practical applications - Genelle Lunken and Gina Almasan
• Therapeutic Sequencing in IBD: Using real world data to best inform first- and second-line advanced therapy - Siddharth Singh
• Mild to Moderate Colitis: There is still a role for 5-ASA - Astrid Williams
• De-escalation of IBD therapy: are we ready for patient choice? - Sunny Singh
• Q&A moderated by Brian Bressler

• Effective Patient Communication in IBD Care: Navigating the “difficult and non compliant” patient - Melody Feinstein
• Intestinal Ultrasound in IBD: Hand-on Workshop for Real-time disease monitoring - Matthew Smyth and Astrid Williams
• IBD in the elderly: what considerations are needed - Siddharth Singh and Greg Rosenfeld
• Why and How to discuss clinical trials with your patients - Brian Bressler and Sunny Singh

 Astrid Williams, Greg Rosenfeld and Brian Bressler

• Pregnancy: From prenatal to post-partum care, complex case discussions, gastroenterology and obstetrical perspectives - Yvette Leung, Alex Crossman and Elisabet Joa
• Early Surgical Intervention in Crohn’s: Is the LIR!C trial ready for the real world, a multidisciplinary discussion with colorectal surgery - Brian Bressler
• Proactive disease monitoring: from biomarkers to transmural imaging: does it reduce flares and hospitalizations - Matthew Smyth and Greg Rosenfeld
• Discussion moderated by Brian Bressler

• Liver Program Welcome & Objectives
• Primary Biliary Cholangitis: A New Era - Gideon Hirschfield
• Primary sclerosing cholangitis: Recent advances - Hin Hin Ko  
• Holistic care in cholestatic liver disease: symptoms management and preventive care
• Discussion Plenary Session 1

Alnoor Ramji 

• Viral hepatitis: BC Cascade of Care: Present status and opportunities: 
• Closing the gap in Hepatitis C care - Brian Conway 
• More than meet the eyes: alcohol-related liver disease 
• Discussion Plenary Session 2

Gideon Hirschfield

• Update on Metabolic dysfunction associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD): Current and Future Therapies - Alnoor Ramji
• 2025 in review: Top papers in 2025 that changed my practice - Daljeet Chahal
• Palliative care and Frailty in Chronic Liver Disease - Jay Pai 
• Discussion Plenary Session 3
• Debate
• Closing, Q&A, Evaluations

• The HCV journey 2024/ 2025 - Alnoor Ramji
• BC HCV elimination Roadmap
• Birth-cohort’ & new-comers                   
• Persons who use drugs and homeless persons       
• Pregnancy and pediatric patients 
• HCV Elimination workshop review and next-steps - Alnoor Ramji

• Burden of disease in various practices: PCP, endocrine, obesity, GI, Hepatolog
• Diagnostics- what, when, and how

• Linkage to care- models of care - Alnoor Ramji
• Non-pharmacological therapies: who, what, how 
• Pharmacological therapies: how close are we?
• Summary: lessons learned and action items 
• Debate: MASLD who’s disease, is it? Hepatologist or endocrinologist  
• Closing, Q&A, Evaluations