IBD Newcastle 2025
The Emma Stuart Memorial Symposium
November 20 @ 08:00 – 17:00
8:00-9:00 Arrival & registration
9:00-10:30 Session 1: Cancer risk and mitigation
Welcome: Setting the scene
Professor Chris Lamb & Dr Ally Speight, Newcastle University and Newcastle Hospitals, Newcastle
upon Tyne
2025 British Society of Gastroenterology guidelines on colorectal
surveillance in IBD
Professor James East, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford
Colon cancer risk in IBD: Chemoprevention in the biologics era
Dr Shahida Din, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh
Prediction of colorectal cancer risk in IBD
Professor Trevor Graham, Institute of Cancer Research, London
Panel Q&A
10:30-11:00 Tea & coffee
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Please note this is an in-person only, free to attend meeting. There is no option for online attendance
Approved by the Federation of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom for 6 category 1 (external) CPD credits: Code 15254711:00-12:30 Session 2: Holistic care
Management of psychological morbidity and fatigue
Dr Calum Moulton, St Mark’s Hospital, London
Frailty: Identification and challenges
Dr Izzy Carbery, St James’s University Hospital, Leeds
The power of non-clinical and peer support
Mrs Vikki Garrick and Mr Derek McEwan, The Catherine McEwan Foundation, Glasgow
Panel Q&A
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:50-14:50 Session 3: Pushing boundaries
IBD genetics: Enough bench, time for the bedside?
Dr Nick Kennedy: Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Exeter
The Emma Stuart Memorial Lecture
Precision medicine in IBD: hopeful or hopeless?
Professor Bram Verstockt: KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Panel Q&A
14:50-15:20 Tea & coffee
15:20-17:00 Session 4: How I….
How I…. operate on small bowel Crohn’s disease
Professor Laura Hancock, Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester
How I…. manage nutrition in Crohn’s disease
Dr Tom Conley, Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool
How I…. select medical therapy for IBD in 2026
Professor Peter Irving, Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospital, London
Panel Q&A
Summary and closing remarks