INDIAN SOCIETY OF PEDIATRIC GASTROENTEROLOGY, HEPATOLOGY AND NUTRITION

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Indian society of pediatric gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition (ISPGHAN) is largest body of pediatric gastroenterologist, hepatologist and dieticians in India.

The society was formed to provide and promote knowledge on Gastrointestinal, liver and nutrition related problems with specific focus on Indian children.

ISPGHAN also supports education and research via teaching programms

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President Message

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Secretary Message

Secretary

Secretary Message

Dear All,

I am humbled and honoured to take over as ISPGHAN secretary for 2024-2025, would assure to to do my best with transparency and accountability.

My vision would be to make our esteemed society a well-known subspecialty organisation across states with less or no paediatric gastroenterologist and to link well with general Paediatricians & other specialists across the country.

Paediatric gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition is evolving rapidly as a speciality over last few decades across the globe and particularly in India.

I intend to work closely with President and executive committee to continue the wonderful tasks completed by the previous teams and to plan & execute new ideas/activities for our society. Would strive hard to promote multi centre and multidisciplinary team studies and ensure to bring out ISPGHAN consensus guidelines/position statements.

We intend to conduct mono-thematic conference once a year, to establish educational modules for paediatricians so as to ensure our efforts reach a wider audience in a short span of time. To continue case based discussion for Fellows/PGs on a twice monthly basis. Also would introduce online webinars on challenging cases, fascinating endoscopy cases, Clinic-pathological cases and interesting images. Intend to actively involve other health professionals - Radiologists, Histopathologists and Dieticians in educational activities.

We would streamline the membership application and payment process. We would work towards popularising ISPGHAN Journal, Annals of Pediatric Gastroenterology & Hepatology (APGH) and get it indexed.

We need all our ISPGHAN members to give your suggestions and support to achieve the above goals.

Many thanks & Warm regards,

Dr. M S Viswanathan
Secretary, ISPGHAN 2024-2025

President Message

Dear Members and Colleagues,

As I take the chair of the ISPGHAN President for the next two years, I realize that ISPGHAN as a society is so relevant for Pediatricians, Pediatric Gastroenterologists and Pediatric Hepatologists apart from those working in Pediatric nutrition in the country and all over the world. ISPGHAN is poised to become a large, also multinational, best in class in house medical team. We are a team that aims to give ample opportunity to learn, teach, mentor, train and share top quality medical advise available anywhere in the world.

The country for the good or bad is going through innumerable changes: social, political, economic, technological and scientific. The medical landscape is forever changing with advancing technology becoming more freely available in the country. In a way the medical landscape is becoming more complex to our fraternity who needs guidance to simplify this landscape. The simplification of this landscape will help the understanding of the gastrointestinal & liver diseases and help our mission to provide cost effective management for all. And while managing, we should have a plan for future quality of life of the patient. Remember we are not doing good for the patient if posttransplant the child doesn’t go to school or can not lead a meaningful life. Hence it should be the foremost mandate of ISPGHAN as a society to understand, teach, train and provide cost effective management for all. Our second equally important mandate should be our responsibility towards providing meaningful quality of life for our patients.

I must congratulate the members and those at the helm of works for the leaps and bounds the society has grown in the last decade. The efforts on training of the fellows and development of the members are commendable. It is time we now launch the efforts to provide data and literature on diseases present locally. For the sake of publication of a stronger evidence backed data, we should collaborate in multicentric studies and national level registries for various diseases.

 

Thank you everyone

Dr. Seema Alam
President – ISPGHAN
Prof Pediatric Hepatology
Department of Pediatric Hepatology
Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences
D 1 Vasant Kunj
New Delhi 110070
seema_alam@hotmail.com
M +919540951008