Congress Program

Saturday - 25 October 2025

Scientific Program Day 1

07:00 – 08:30	Registration
08:30 – 08:40	ICiUS Opening and Welcome	Jakob Begun Yoon-Kyo An Robert Bryant
08:40 – 10:30	SESSION I
	PLENARY SESSION IUS remission – an emerging target in IBD		Chairs: Rupert Leong Kerri Novak
08:40 – 09:00	Transmural healing, IUS transforming clinical practice, integrating with other targets	Krisztina Gecse
09:00 – 09:20	IUS in clinical trials – end points, image acquisition, central reading	Vipul Jairath
09:20 – 09:40	Consensus statements outcome	Jakob Begun
09:40 – 10:00	Abstract of Merit Cost savings and carbon footprint benefits Intestinal Ultrasound VS Colonoscopy for disease activity monitoring in Inflammatory Bowel Disease	Aviv Pudipeddi
10:00 – 10:20	IUS providing insights into disease pathogenesis – fibrosis in CD, transmural inflammation & remodelling in UC	Bram Verstockt
10:20 – 10:30	Panel discussion	Speakers join Chairs
10:30 – 11:00	Morning Tea
11:00 – 12:30	SESSION II
	LIVE IUS SCANNING #1 – Crohn’s Disease Session sponsored by Abbvie	Chairs: Rebecca Smith Noa Krugliak Cleveland Bram Verstock
11:00 – 11:05	Opening remark by Abbvie, the session sponsor	TBC
11:05 – 11:45	Crohn’s disease stricture
11:05 – 11:15	Utility in clinical practice	Julien Schulberg
11:15 – 11:30	Live scanning	Robert Bryant
11:30 – 11:45	Panel discussion	Panel
11:45 – 12:30	Post-operative Crohn’s disease
11:45 – 12:00	IUS in clinical practice	Simon Ghaly
12:00 – 12:15	Live scanning	Brandon Baraty
12:15 – 12:30	Panel discussion	Panel
12:30 – 13:30	Lunch
13:30 – 15:00	SESSION III
	SCIENTIFIC SESSION Global delivery of IUS. Learn, Set-up, Deliver.	Chairs: Robert Bryant Vipul Jairath
13:30 – 14:00	IUS Learning Need, Demand, Changes in the future, Competency
13:30 – 13:40	Overview	Lauren White
13:40 – 14:00	Panel discussion	Christian Maaser Yoon-Kyo An Taku Kobayashi Noa Krugliak Cleveland
14:00 – 14:30	Clinical implementation and infrastructure set up Who performs IUS (physician, radiologist, nurse) Model of care (POC vs stand-alone list) Machine requirements (handheld vs portable vs cart)
14:00 – 14:10	Overview	Antony Friedman
14:10 – 14:30	Panel discussion	Christian Maaser Yoon-Kyo An Taku Kobayashi Noa Krugliak Cleveland
14:30 – 15:00	IUS Quality Capture, Central reading, Reporting Intra and inter-observer variability
14:30 – 14:40	Overview	Tom Goodsall
14:40 – 15:15	Panel discussion	Christian Maaser Yoon-Kyo An Taku Kobayashi Noa Krugliak Cleveland
15:15 – 15:45	Afternoon Tea
15:45 – 17:30	SESSION IV
	LIVE IUS SCANNING #2 – Transperineal Ultrasound Session sponsored by Samsung	Chairs: Shintaro Sagami Antony Friedman
15:45 – 15:50	Opening remark by Samsung, the session sponsor
15:50 – 16:05	Proctitis assessment
16:05 – 16:20	Utility in clinical practice	Ryan Mathias
16:20 – 16:35	Live scanning	Noa Krugliak Cleveland
16:35 – 16:50	Panel discussion	Panel
16:50 – 17:30	Perianal Crohn’s disease assessment
16:50 – 17:05	Utility in clinical practice	Christian Maaser
17:05 – 17:20	Live scanning	Krisztina Gecse
17:20 – 17:30	Panel discussion	Panel
17:30 – 18:30	Break
18:30 – 22:00	GACHI GALA DINNER Theme: Black, White & Grey
18:30 – 19:00	Pre-Dinner Drinks
19:00 – 22:00	GACHI GALA DINNER – Announcement of the prestigious GACHI Prize recipient – Live Band with Dance Floor

Sunday - 26 October 2025

Scientific Program Day 2

08:30 – 10:30	SESSION V
	SCIENTIFIC SESSION Novel Applications of IUS: Beyond the Bowel Wall		Chairs: Rupert Leong Ray Boyapati
08:30 – 08:50	IUS in pregnancy	Emma Flanagan
08:50 – 09:10	IUS Elastography & Strictures	Noa Krugliak Cleveland
09:10 – 09:30	What’s inside the lumen: functional assessment	Ryan Mathias
09:30 – 09:50	Endoanal & pelvic floor ultrasound: Colorectal surgeon & Pelvic Floor Physiotherapist	Chris Gillespie Lori Forner
09:50 – 10:00	Severe Fibrosis Predicted by Shear Wave Elastography of Crohn’s-Related Ileal Strictures is Associated with Resistance to Medical Therapy	Noa Krugliak Cleveland
10:00 – 10:10	Comparative Accuracy and Reliability of Handheld versus Cart-Based Ultrasound in assessing Inflammatory Bowel Disease Activity	Myat Myat Khaing
10:10 – 10:30	Panel discussion	Panel
10:30 – 11:00	Morning Tea
11:00 – 12:30	SESSION VI
	SCIENTIFIC SESSION Monitoring response to therapies – Predictive power of IUS	Chairs: Taku Kobayashi Krisztina Gecse
11:00 – 11:20	IUS in Acute Severe Ulcerative Colitis	Rebecca Smith
11:20 – 11:40	Early response in Crohn’s disease	Rose Vaughan
11:40 – 12:00	“Seeing is believing” – patient perspective of IUS Clinical moderator: Jakob Begun, Yoon-Kyo An	Patient Panel
12:00 – 12:20	Scoring in IUS – What;s out there & what should we use	Kerri Novak
12:20 – 12:30	Panel discussion	Panel
12:30 – 12:40	Summary & Closing Remarks	Robert Bryant
12:40 – 13:30	Lunch & Farewell