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From the gut-brain axis to the future of translational medicine, this year’s Winter Meeting offers a wide-ranging look at developments in gastroenterology
The Irish Society of Gastroenterology (ISG) Winter Meeting will take place at the Fitzpatrick Castle Hotel, Killiney, Co Dublin, on 19–20 November 2026. The meeting will bring together clinicians and researchers for a programme spanning endoscopy, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), hepatology, oncology, and wider developments in gastroenterology.
A pre-meeting SpR training day, sponsored by Takeda, will take place on Wednesday 18 November.
The main meeting programme opens on Thursday 19 November with themed oral presentations on endoscopy and other areas of gastroenterology, followed by Prof Dermot O’Toole, Consultant Gastroenterologist, St James’s Hospital, and St Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin, who will discuss neuroendocrine tumours and what endoscopists need to know. Mr Amyn Haji, Consultant Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgeon and Interventional Endoscopist, King’s College Hospital, London, UK, will then examine the management of colorectal polyps and the potential for organ preservation.
After the morning coffee break and poster viewing, Prof Ailsa Hart, Consultant Gastroenterologist, St Mark’s Hospital, London, UK, will address the practical management of IBD fatigue. Prof Eamonn Quigley, Chief of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Houston Methodist Hospital, US, will explore the gut-brain axis in his presentation, ‘Meandering along the gut-brain axis – Are we getting anywhere?’. The morning session will be followed by lunch and a poster round.
The afternoon begins with further themed oral presentations, this time focusing on hepatology and IBD. Prof Dermot Kelleher, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, will speak about the future of translational medicine, before Prof Grainne O’Kane, Consultant Medical Oncologist, St Vincent’s University Hospital, discusses developments in pancreatic cancer treatment.
The day will also include the World Gastroenterology Organisation (WGO) Presentation and Awards Ceremony. A satellite meeting sponsored by AbbVie will focus on perianal Crohn’s disease. For this meeting, Prof Hart will deliver a presentation titled ‘Navigating complexity in perianal Crohn’s disease: Evidence, experience, and treatment strategies’. The first day concludes with the ISG board meeting, followed by the conference dinner and presentation of the Lifetime Achievement Award to Prof John Hyland.
Prof Hyland graduated from University College Dublin. He continued his postgraduate studies at St Vincent’s University Hospital and the University of Liverpool, UK, and obtained his Fellowship from Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, US.
Prof Hyland is recognised both nationally and internationally in the field of advanced laparoscopic colorectal surgery. Among his many contributions in the field of colorectal cancer treatment is his development of a clinical database in the early 1980s of patients with colorectal cancer and IBD, resulting in multiple significant research publications.
He is past-President of the RCSI, ISG, Irish Association of Coloproctology, and the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland.
Second day
The second day of the meeting, Friday 20 November, opens with a Takeda-sponsored satellite meeting featuring Prof Simon Travis, Professor of Clinical Gastroenterology, University of Oxford, UK. His presentation, ‘What’s the VERDICT on disease clearance in ulcerative colitis?’, will be followed by the President’s Choice of oral presentations.
The morning continues with Dr Marie Boyle, Consultant Hepatologist and Gastroenterologist, Tallaght University Hospital (TUH), Dublin, delivering ‘A clinician’s guide to MASLD [Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease]’. Prof Matthew Armstrong, Consultant Hepatologist, University Hospital Birmingham, UK, will then speak about ‘Optimising a patient with decompensated cirrhosis’.
The meeting will conclude with a panel debate on getting started with a mentoring programme for gastroenterology trainees. Prof Eamonn Quigley; Prof Deirdre McNamara, Consultant Gastroenterologist, TUH; and Prof Matthew Armstrong will contribute, with Dr Orlaith Kelly, Connolly Hospital, Dublin, serving as moderator.
The final session will include awards and observership bursaries before the meeting closes.
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