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Full Schedule

  • Wednesday, January 21, 2026
  • 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM PST
    Registration Open
  • 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM PST
    Speaker HQ
  • Thursday, January 22, 2026
  • 7:00 AM - 7:00 PM PST
    Registration Open
  • 7:00 AM - 7:00 PM PST
    Speaker HQ
  • 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM PST
    01 - IBD A to Z, Part 1
    Moderator: Sara Horst, MD, MPH, FACG (she/her/hers) – Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    Moderator: Edward Barnes, MD, MPH – University of North Carolina School of Medicine
    Clinical Science
  • 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM PST
    02 - Getting Started with Intestinal Ultrasound: Basics to Bedside, Morning Session Part 1 (no certification)
    Moderator: Michael Dolinger, MD, MBA (he/him/his) – NYU Grossman School of Medicine
    Clinical Science
  • 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM PST
    03 - Lloyd Mayer, MD, Young Investigators Session: Digested Wisdom—Mentorship in the IBD Trenches, Part 1
    Moderator: David Fudman, MD (he/him/his) – University of Texas Southwestern
    Moderator: Taha Qazi, MD (he/him/his) – Cleveland Clinic
    Clinical and Basic Science
  • 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM PST
    04 - Monitoring Inflammation and Emerging Therapeutic Approaches for Pediatric IBD, Part 1
    Moderator: Neera Gupta, MD, MAS – Children's National Hospital
    Moderator: David Suskind, MD – Seattle Children's Hospital
    Clinical Science
  • 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM PST
    05 - Break
  • 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM PST
    06 - IBD A to Z, Part 2: Pediatric IBD Patient Transitioning to Adulthood
    Moderator: Sara Horst, MD, MPH, FACG (she/her/hers) – Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    Moderator: Edward Barnes, MD, MPH – University of North Carolina School of Medicine
    Clinical Science
  • 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM PST
    07 - Getting Started with Intestinal Ultrasound: Basics to Bedside, Morning Session Part 2 (no certification)
    Moderator: Michael Dolinger, MD, MBA (he/him/his) – NYU Grossman School of Medicine
    Clinical Science
  • 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM PST
    08 - Lloyd Mayer, MD, Young Investigators Session: Digested Wisdom—Mentorship in the IBD Trenches, Part 2
    Moderator: David Fudman, MD (he/him/his) – University of Texas Southwestern
    Moderator: Taha Qazi, MD (he/him/his) – Cleveland Clinic
    Clinical and Basic Science
  • 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM PST
    09 - Monitoring Inflammation and Emerging Therapeutic Approaches for Pediatric IBD, Part 2
    Moderator: Brad Pasternak, MD (he/him/his) – Phoenix Children's Hospital
    Basic Science
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM PST
    10 - Lunch
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM PST
    11 - IBD A to Z, Part 3: Lunch with Experts
    Moderator: Sara Horst, MD, MPH, FACG (she/her/hers) – Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    Moderator: Edward Barnes, MD, MPH – University of North Carolina School of Medicine
    Clinical Science
  • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM PST
    12 - IBD A to Z, Part 4: Bio-Naïve Ulcerative Colitis
    Moderator: Sara Horst, MD, MPH, FACG (she/her/hers) – Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    Moderator: Edward Barnes, MD, MPH – University of North Carolina School of Medicine
    Clinical Science
  • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM PST
    13 - Getting Started with Intestinal Ultrasound: Basics to Bedside, Afternoon Session Part 1 (no certification)
    Moderator: Michael Dolinger, MD, MBA (he/him/his) – NYU Grossman School of Medicine
    Clinical Science
  • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM PST
    14 - Hear It Today, Do It Tomorrow: Making IBD Practical, Part 1 (APP Session)
    Moderator: Amy Stewart, MSN, FNP-C – Capital Digestive Care
    Moderator: Angelina E. Collins, n/a (she/her/hers) – Division of Gastroenterology, UC San Diego Health, San Diego, CA, USA
    Clinical Science
  • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM PST
    15 - Multicellular Interactions in IBD (Basic Science Session)
    Moderator: Lori Coburn, MD (she/her/hers) – Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    Moderator: Ju-Hyun Ahn, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of North Carolina
    Basic Science
  • 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM PST
    16 - Break
  • 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM PST
    17 - IBD A to Z, Part 5: Bio-Naïve Crohn's Disease
    Moderator: Sara Horst, MD, MPH, FACG (she/her/hers) – Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    Moderator: Edward Barnes, MD, MPH – University of North Carolina School of Medicine
    Clinical Science
  • 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM PST
    18 - Fried Nerves: Neural Regulation of Pain and Inflammation in IBD (Basic Science Session)
    Moderator: Meenakshi Rao, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – Boston Children's Hospital & Harvard Medical School
    Moderator: Michael J. Rosen (he/him/his) – Stanford University and Stanford Medicine Children's Health
    Basic Science
  • 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM PST
    19 - Getting Started with Intestinal Ultrasound: Basics to Bedside, Afternoon Session Part 2 (no certification)
    Moderator: Michael Dolinger, MD, MBA (he/him/his) – NYU Grossman School of Medicine
    Clinical Science
  • 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM PST
    20 - Hear It Today, Do It Tomorrow: Making IBD Practical, Part 2 (APP Session)
    Moderator: Angelina E. Collins, n/a (she/her/hers) – Division of Gastroenterology, UC San Diego Health, San Diego, CA, USA
    Clinical Science
  • 4:15 PM - 5:45 PM PST
    21 - Women in IBD: Creating Solutions Within Our Community
    Moderator: Elisa K. Boden, MD (she/her/hers) – Oregon Health & Science University
    Moderator: Vanessa Mitsialis, MD – Brigham and Women's Hospital/Boston Children's Hospital
    Clinical and Basic Science
  • 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM PST
    22 - Nurses and Advanced Practice Providers Networking Reception
  • 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM PST
    23 - Pediatric GI Networking Reception
  • 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM PST
    24 - Innovators in IBD: Science, Reviewer and Junior Investigator Reception
  • 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM PST
    25 - Together We Lead: Women in IBD and DEI Reception
  • 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM PST
    26 - Satellite Symposium: The Future Is Anti-Inflammatory: Redefining IBD Outcomes Through Targeting IL-23p19
  • Friday, January 23, 2026
  • 6:00 AM - 7:30 AM PST
    29 - Satellite Symposium: Is TNF-Like Ligand 1A (TL1A) Inhibition the Answer to Improving Disease Remission in Inflammatory Bowel Disease?
  • 7:00 AM - 7:45 AM PST
    30 - Breakfast in Exhibit Hall
  • 7:00 AM - 3:30 PM PST
    Exhibit Hall Open
  • 7:00 AM - 7:00 PM PST
    Registration Open
  • 7:00 AM - 7:00 PM PST
    Speaker HQ
  • 7:45 AM - 8:30 AM PST
    31 - Congress Welcome and Keynote Presentation
    Clinical and Basic Science
  • 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM PST
    32 - Stricturing Crohn's Disease and Featured Abstracts
    Moderator: Shrinivas Bishu, MD (he/him/his) – University of Michigan Health
    Clinical and Basic Science
  • 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM PST
    Product Theater: Striving for Durable Outcomes in UC: A therapy that helps achieve powerful symptomatic and endoscopic outcomes for adult TNFi-IR patients with moderate to severe ulcerative colitis (AbbVie)
  • 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM PST
    33 - Refreshment Break in Exhibit Hall
  • 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM PST
    34 - Therapeutic Chess: The Right Drug at the Right Time in IBD
    Moderator: David Fudman, MD (he/him/his) – University of Texas Southwestern
    Moderator: Ryan Ungaro, MD, MS – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
    Clinical Science
  • 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM PST
    35 - Crypt to Villus: Intestinal Epithelial Stems Cells and Differentiation in Health and Inflammation (Basic Science Session)
    Moderator: Ta-Chiang Liu, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Washington University School of Medicine
    Moderator: Kelley Yan, MD, PhD – Columbia University Irving Medical Center
    Basic Science
  • 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM PST
    Product Theater: Strive Towards Treatment Goals (Eli Lilly & Company)
  • 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM PST
    36 - Lunch in Exhibit Hall
  • 11:30 AM - 2:00 PM PST
    Satellite Symposium: A CaseWiseTM Initiative – Mission Possible: Matching Treatment Goals of Patients and Providers in IBD in Clinical Practice
  • 12:15 PM - 12:45 PM PST
    Product Theater: ELEVATE UC and ENLIGHT UC Trials: Advancing the Understanding of Clinical Trials Data (Pfizer)
  • 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM PST
    Product Theater: The Robust Clinical Data Behind ENTYVIO (vedolizumab) (Takeda Pharmaceuticals USA inc.)
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PST
    37 - Perianal Crohn’s Disease: From Fistulas to Healing Pathways
    Moderator: Shrinivas Bishu, MD (he/him/his) – University of Michigan Health
    Moderator: Arielle Kanters, MD (she/her/hers) – Cleveland Clinic Foundation
    Clinical Science
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PST
    38 - Immune Regulation in Intestinal Inflammation (Basic Science Session)
    Moderator: Jeremiah Faith, PhD – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
    Basic Science
  • 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM PST
    Product Theater: TREMFYA® for the Treatment of Adult Patients with Moderately to Severely Active Ulcerative Colitis and Moderately to Severely Active Crohn’s Disease (Johnson & Johnson)
  • 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM PST
    39 - Refreshment Break in Exhibit Hall
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PST
    40 - IBD in Balance: From Cancer Patrol to Flare Control
    Moderator: Erin Forster, MD. MPH (she/her/hers) – Medical University of South Carolina
    Moderator: Taha Qazi, MD (he/him/his) – Cleveland Clinic
    Clinical Science
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PST
    41 - Epigenetic Regulation of Tissue Responses in IBD (Basic Science Session)
    Moderator: Kate Hamilton, PhD (she/her/hers) – Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
    Moderator: Hajera Amatullah, MPH, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Pennsylvania
    Basic Science
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM PST
    42 - Poster Hall Reception
  • 8:00 PM - 11:00 PM PST
    43 - Backstage Pass: A 2000s Throwback Bash (Congress Reception)
  • Saturday, January 24, 2026
  • 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM PST
    45 - Breakfast in Exhibit Hall
  • 7:00 AM - 10:30 AM PST
    Exhibit Hall Open
  • 7:00 AM - 10:45 AM PST
    Speaker HQ
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PST
    46 - Arming the Arsenal: Comprehensive Strategies for Refractory IBD
    Moderator: Kara DeFelice, MD (she/her/hers) – University of Cincinnati
    Moderator: Frank I. Scott, MD MSCE (he/him/his) – University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
    Clinical Science
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PST
    47 - Gut Check: Host-Microbe Interactions in IBD (Basic Science Session)
    Moderator: Janelle Arthur, n/a – UNC
    Moderator: Gretchen Diehl, PhD – Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
    Basic Science
  • 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM PST
    Product Theater: Understanding Zymfentra(infliximab-dyyb)
  • 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM PST
    48 - Refreshment Break in Exhibit Hall
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PST
    49 - Beyond Biologics: Advancing New IBD Therapeutic Modalities
    Moderator: David Rubin, MD (he/him/his) – University of Chicago Medicine
    Moderator: Karen L. Edelblum, PhD (she/her/hers) – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
    Clinical and Basic Science