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Moderator: Rob Enns
ERCP: Eric Lam

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

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

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Moderator: Douglas Motomura

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

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

Moderator: Eric Lam

• 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 - Jennifer Li
• Video Session - HPB - Eric Lam

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Moderator: Jennifer Telford
ERCP: Rob Enns

• 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 - Douglas Motomura
• How to improve my ADR and SSLDR - Jennifer Telford
• Panel Discussion - Jennifer Telford, Catherine Dube, Lawrence Hookey, Scott Cowie, David Schaeffer

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Moderator: Neal Shahidi

• 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 - Douglas Motomura
• 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 and Ahmer Karimuddin
• Panel discussion - Jennifer Telford, Elena Vikis, Neal Shahidi, Douglas Motomura, Ahmer Karimuddin 
• Video session - Colon - Neal Shahidi

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• Welcome - Astrid Williams
• The IBD Patient Journey: Care Pathways and Multidisciplinary Support - Astrid Williams and Shelby Friesen
• Top IBD articles published in 2025 - Christos Veretanos and Mariam Narous
• 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 - Brian Bressler
• Q&A moderated by Brian Bressler

Moderator: Brian Bressler

• Case 1 - Matthew Smyth
• Case 2 - Greg Rosenfeld
• Panel: Challenging IBD Cases - Brian Bressler, Astrid Williams, Greg Rosenfeld, Matthew Smyth

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Moderator: Greg Rosenfeld

• Pouch Disorders - Medical - Astrid Williams
• Pouch Disorders - Surgical - Manoj Raval
• Perianal Crohn’s Disease - Medical - Greg Rosenfeld
• Perianal Crohn’s - Surgical - Manoj Raval
• Panel Discussion: Brian Bressler, Astrid Williams, Manoj Raval, Anu Ghuman

• Medical - Astrid Williams
• Surgical - Anu Ghuman
• Panel Discussion with Astrid Williams, Anu Ghuman, Manoj Raval, Matt Smyth

Group A: Manoj Raval, Matthew Smyth, Brian Bressler
Group B: Anu Ghuman, Greg Rosenfeld, Astrid Williams

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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 - Maisa Gaiarsa & Melody Feinstein
• Intestinal Ultrasound in 2025 - Role in providing patient centred IBD care - Matthew Smyth & Astrid Williams
• IBD in the elderly: what considerations are needed - Siddharth Singh and Greg Rosenfeld
• Managing IBD in the setting of Metabolic Disease - Brian Bressler and Sunny Singh

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• Effective Patient Communication in IBD Care: Navigating the “difficult and non compliant” patient - Maisa Gaiarsa and Melody Feinstein
• IBD in the elderly: what considerations are needed - Siddharth Singh and Greg Rosenfeld
• Intestinal Ultrasound in 2025 - Role in providing patient centred IBD care - Matthew Smyth & Astrid Williams
• Managing IBD in the setting of Metabolic Disease - Brian Bressler and Sunny Singh

• IBD in Pregnancy: From prenatal to post-partum care, gastroenterology and obstetrical perspectives - Astrid Williams, Alexandra Crossman and Elisabet Joa
• Early Surgical Intervention in Crohn’s: Is the LIR!C trial ready for the real world? - Brian Bressler
• Proactive disease monitoring: from biomarkers to transmural imaging: does it reduce flares and hospitalizations - Matthew Smyth & Greg Rosenfeld
• Discussion moderated by Brian Bressler

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• Primary sclerosing cholangitis: Recent advances - Hin Hin Ko  
• Holistic care in cholestatic liver disease: symptoms management and preventive care - Jean-Phillipe Wallach 
• Discussion Plenary Session 1

• Hepatitis B/D: Is there a cure yet? - Edward Tam

Alnoor Ramji and Rohit Pai

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• Viral hepatitis: BC Cascade of Care: Present status and opportunities - Sofia Barlett
• Closing the gap in Hepatitis C care - Brian Conway 
• More than meet the eyes: alcohol-related liver disease - Julia McIsaac
• Discussion Plenary Session 3

Gideon Hirschfield, Steven Pi, Jean-Phillipe Wallach 

• 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 4
• Debate - Edward Tam and Robert Mitchell
• Closing, Q&A, Evaluations

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• The HCV journey 2024/ 2025 - Alnoor Ramji
• BC HCV elimination Roadmap - Sofia Barlett

Workshops with all Speakers of the day

• Birth-cohort’ & new-comers                   
• Persons who use drugs and homeless persons       
• Pregnancy and pediatric patients

• HCV Elimination workshop review and next-steps - Alnoor Ramji

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• Burden of disease, models of care, diagnostics and therapeutic options -  All speakers
• Diagnostics- what, when, and how - Edward Tam

• Linkage to care- models of care - Alnoor Ramji
• Non-pharmacological therapies: who, what, how 
• Pharmacological therapies: Incretin therapies in MASH - Pol Darras
• Summary: lessons learned and action items - Alnoor Ramji
• Debate: MASLD who’s disease, is it? Ed Tam
• Closing, Q&A, Evaluations