After the great #FGDebate with the Dr Johnson, we are delighted to announce our next #FGDebate will be on Tuesday 22nd March 2016 with Dr Richard Hansen, Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterologist and Ms Joan Gavin, Paediatric Gastroenterology Dietician, at 8-9pm GMT and will discuss, ‘Frontline IBD: Nutrition in IBD – what to do in theory and practice’.

Dr Richard Hansen is a Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterologist at the new Glasgow Children’s Hospital. His main clinical interests are in inflammatory bowel disease, Helicobacter pylori and paediatric liver disease. He completed a PhD in gastrointestinal microbiology in 2012 and has published widely in this field. His ongoing research focuses on microbial therapeutic approaches to managing inflammatory bowel disease, including projects looking at nutrition, probiotics and faecal transplantation. Dr Hansen has been an early advocate of Twitter for free open access medical education (#FOAMED) and currently runs the twitter feed for British Society of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (@BSPGHAN), including the live tweeting of key conferences

Ms Joan Gavin is a Paediatric Gastroenterology Dietitian at Southampton Children’s Hospital. Her main interests are inflammatory bowel disease and gut allergy/intolerance. She has completed a masters degree on gastrointestinal malabsorption and has published work on nutritional intakes in inflammatory bowel disease. Joan recently presented data on maintenance nutrition in inflammatory bowel disease highlighting it’s role in prolonging remission at the BSPGHAN conference in January this year.

The #FGDebate will be a practical discussion about how to approach Nutrition in IBD from a theoretical and practical point of view.  We hope you can join us then using #FGDebate