ELITE PED.GI-SKMC CONFERENCE
May 30 & 31, 2013, Amwaj Rotana, JBR, Dubai, UAE
Sr Ida Bester was the only South African delegate to attend this very informative and practical conference.
Sr Ida says: “What an informative conference to learn from the experts in their fields. This was another opportunity to empower myself with knowledge to plough this back in my everyday practice. An experience to remember life long.”
Topics that were discussed:
- Life without Rota – M Howidi, American Board of paediatrics
- Early nutrition& long-term health – Prof A Singhal, Institute of Child Health, London
- Viral Attack! – Prof M El Guindi, President of Egyptian Society of ped G I
- Constipation through the ages – Prof G Belhaj, UAE
- Treatment of children obesity: is it lifelong? – Dr A Soufi, Syria
- Foreign body & caustic ingestion – Prof S Bharwani, Ontario, Canada
- Cow’s Milk Protein Allergy – Dr AKoleilat, ex general secretary PASPAGHAN
- Liver Transplant – Prof R Azzam, American Board of Ped, University of Chicago
- Assessment of the liver – Dr B AlMurbati, UAE
- EDEC – Prof M Miqdady, American Board Ped G I, Chief Ped GI, Sheik Kalifa, Dubai
- Gut micro flora: impact on health and disease – prof C Lifschitz, AAP GI, Argentina
- Neonatal cholestasis – Dr F AL Ateeqi, UAE