Congress Program
Saturday - 25 October 2025
Scientific Program Day 1
| 07:00 – 08:30 | Registration | ||
| 07:30 – 08:30 | Breakfast served in Grand Ballroom Foyer, Level 3 | ||
| 08:30 – 08:40 | ICiUS Opening and Welcome | Jakob Begun Yoon-Kyo An Robert Bryant |
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| 08:40 – 10:30 | SESSION I | ||
| PLENARY SESSION IUS remission – an emerging target in IBD |
Chairs: Kerri Novak |
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| 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 update | 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 |
Talia Crayn, Medical Student, on behalf of 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 Verstockt |
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| 11:00 – 11:05 | Opening remark by Abbvie, the session sponsor | Adrian Tong | |
| 11:05 – 11:45 | Crohn’s disease stricture | ||
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Julien Schulberg | |
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Robert Bryant | |
| 11:30 – 11:45 |
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Panel | |
| 11:45 – 12:30 | Post-operative Crohn’s disease | ||
| 11:45 – 12:00 |
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Simon Ghaly | |
| 12:00 – 12:15 |
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Brandon Baraty | |
| 12:15 – 12:30 |
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Panel | |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch | ||
| 13:30 – 15:15 | SESSION III | ||
| SCIENTIFIC SESSION Global delivery of IUS. Learn, Set-up, Deliver. |
Chairs: Robert Bryant Vipul Jairath |
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| 13:30 – 14:00 | IUS Learning Need, Demand, Changes in the future, Competency |
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Lauren White | |
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Christian Maaser Yoon-Kyo An Taku Kobayashi Noa Krugliak Cleveland |
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| 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) |
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| 14:00 – 14:10 |
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Antony Friedman | |
| 14:10 – 14:30 |
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Christian Maaser Yoon-Kyo An Taku Kobayashi Noa Krugliak Cleveland |
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| 14:30 – 15:00 | IUS Quality Capture, Central reading, Reporting Intra and inter-observer variability |
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| 14:30 – 14:40 |
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Tom Goodsall | |
| 14:40 – 15:15 |
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Christian Maaser Yoon-Kyo An Taku Kobayashi Noa Krugliak Cleveland |
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| 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 |
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| 15:45 – 15:50 | Opening remark by Samsung, the session sponsor | Pradeep Anand | |
| 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 Summary & Close of Day 1 |
Panel Robert Bryant |
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| 17:30 – 18:30 | Break | ||
| 18:30 – 22:30 |
GACHI GALA DINNER Theme: Black, White & Grey |
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| 18:30 – 19:00 | Pre-Dinner Drinks and Canapes | ||
| 19:00 – 22:30 |
GACHI GALA DINNER – Announcement of the prestigious GACHI Prize recipient |
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Sunday - 26 October 2025
Scientific Program Day 2
| 07:00 – 08:30 | Registration open | ||
| 07:30 – 08:30 | Breakfast served in Grand Ballroom Foyer, Level 3 | ||
| 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 | Abstract 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 | Abstract 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 | ||