THURSDAY 16 MARCH 2023


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09:00-09:10

WELCOME AND OPENING

 

 

 

09:10-10:10

PLENARY 1: CHANGES SOCIETIES
Chairs: Stéphane Moniotte (UCL)

 

 

History of the different pediatric societies
Marc Raes, BVK/SBP
Ann Bael, VVK
Pierre Philippet, GBPF
Tyl Jonckheer, VBS

 

New way of working: Belgian Academy of Pediatrics
Ann De Guchtenaere, BAOP

 

Panel discussion with voting system, Q&A

   

10:10-11:00

COFFEE BREAK

   
10:30-11:00 POSTER WALK INFECTIOLOGY, PNEUMOLOGY & IMMUNOLOGY
(PW1 - PW10)
  Posterwalk overview
   

10:30-11:00

SATELLITE SYMPOSIUM SANOFI

  PREVENTION LANDSCAP IN RSV
 

- Existing needs in RSV prevention

- Current strategies in the prevention landscape for RSV disease in infants

- Future strategies and approaches for preventing RSV disease in infants
Marc Raes, Jessa Ziekenhuis Hasselt

   
10:30-11:00 BPCRN SESSION
  Dose adaptation in critical ill children 
P. Decock
  Drug exposure via human milk: Current status and research initiatives
Anne Smits, UZ Leuven
  BPCRN within the Connect4Children (C4C) clinical trial network: an update 
Eva Degraeuwe, UZ Gent
Johan Vande Walle, UZ Gent
   

11:00-12:30 

PARALLEL SUBSPECIALITY SESSIONS 

 

A. CARDIOLOGY & INFECTIOLOGY

Chairs: Siel Daelemans (UZ Brussel) & Hugues Dessy (HUDERF)

 

Results of the Belvasco registry on PIMS in Belgium
Stéphane Moniotte, UCL

 

Long term cardiac residual lesions after PIMS (COVID)
Rik De Wolf, VUB & Leiden UMC

 

Cardiac risks of vaccination : COVID and non-COVID
Katharina Stabenow, RWHT Uniklinik Aachen

 

Could this be cardiac disease? (Infections and the heart)
Petra Schelstraete, UZ Gent

 

The new national malaria protocol
Anna Vanderfailli, UMC St-Pieter

   
 

B. HEMATOLOGY/ONCOLOGY/IMMUNOLOGY & REUMATOLOGY

Chairs: Pierre Philippet (CHC MontLégia)

 

Primary and secondary HLH, multidisciplinary point of view
Giorgia Bucciol, UZ Leuven

 

Ethical issues in incidental findings with expanding NGS testing

Robin De Putter, UZ Gent 
Sabine Hellemans, UZ Gent

 

Puzzling clinical pictures across boundaries
Collective presentation from BPR
Cécile Boulanger, UCL
Benoit Florkin, CHU de Liège
Clement Triaille, UZ Leuven

   

 

C. NEUROLOGY/RADIOLOGY/METABOLICS

Chairs: Luc Régal (UZ Brussel)

 

Treatable metabolic disorders
Patrick Verloo, UZ Gent

 

Neonatal brain imaging
Tim Vanderhasselt, UZ Brussel

 

Ethical considerations in newborn screening
Luc Régal, UZ Brussel

 

Update on SMA
Liesbeth De Waele, UZ Leuven

 

Questions

   
 

D. DERMATOLOGY & GENETICS

Chairs: Kathelijn Keymolen (UZ Brussel) & Dirk Van Gysel (OLVZ Aalst)

 

Cutaneous clues to type 1 interferonopathies
Benoit Brasseur, Clinique St Pierre

  Pediatric dermatology: from phenotype to genotype, and back
Dirk Van Gysel, OLVZ Aalst
  Genetics of vascular malformations
Nicole Revencu, UCL
  Cutis Laxa 
Bert Callewaert, Universiteit Gent
  Differential diagnosis of café-au-lait spots
Eric Legius, UZ Leuven

 

 

12:30-13:30

LUNCH AND POSTERS

12:45-13:30

SATELLITE SYMPOSIUM TRUVION HEALTHCARE NV

  Postbiotics in acute gastro-enteritis: Back to Basics
Yvan Vandenplas, UZ Brussel
   

13:00-13:30

POSTER WALK CARDIOLOGY, HEMATO-ONCOLOGY, NEUROLOGY & NEONATOLOGY-PICU (PW11 - PW20)

  Posterwalk overview
   

13:30-14:45

PARALLEL SESSIONS

 

NURSES SESSION

Chairs: Sofie Moreels (UZ Gent)

 

The role of the clinical nurse specialist and the nurse practitioner at the children’s hospital in UZ Gent

Sofie Moreels & Benjamin De Ridder, UZ Gent

   
 

LONG ORAL PRESENTATIONS 1 (LO 1–LO 6)

Chairs: Benoit Florkin (CHR de la Citadelle) & Tyl Jonckheer (VBS)

 

LO 1. Drug exposure at the target site: are children a neglected population in tissue pharmacokinetic research ?
Eline Hermans, Universiteit Gent

 

LO 2. Isolated chronic fetal hypoxia results in delayed lung development and maturation using an extrauterine womb lamb model
Maureen Peers de Nieuwburgh, UCL

 

LO 3. Serum cytokines differentiate among patients with multiple inflammatory diseases: proof-ofconcept data for FEBRIS, a multi-centric prospective study
Levi Hoste, UZ Gent

 

LO 4. Does air pollution affect the airways of early-career elite athletes?
Janne Goossens, KU Leuven

 

LO 5. Higher drug exposure to infliximab correlates with rate of anti-TNF induced skin lesions in paediatric IBD patients
Karen Van Hoeve, UZ Leuven

 

LO 6. The clinical spectrum and biological findings in RAS-associated juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia and RAS-associated lymphoproliferative disorder
Hanne Verhulst, Universiteit Gent

   
 

SHORT ORAL PRESENTATIONS 1 (SO 1 - SO 12)

Chairs: Nathalie Godefroid (UCL) & Daniel Klink (ZNA)

 

SO 1. The European Paediatric Clinical Trials Network conect4children (c4c): 5-year report of activities within Belgium
Eva Degraeuwe, Universiteit Gent

 

SO 2. The Challenges in performing Pediatric Clinical Trials: an update after 15-years of EMA Regulation
Eva Degraeuwe, Universiteit Gent

 

SO 3. Elimination of rubella in Belgium
Laura Cornelissen, Sciensano

 

SO 4. Qualitative research to increase participation and quality of surveillance networks
Ilse Peeters, Sciensano

 

SO 5. Solving the puzzle of MEN2B syndrome in an adolescent girl
Gertjan Marissens, UZ Brussel

 

SO 6. A monoallelic AIRE gene mutation in a female adolescent with “ isolated “ hypoparathyroidism and high levels of anti-IFNα auto-antibodies
Kimberly Van den Hende, UZ Gent

 

SO 7. Monitoring quality of rehabilitation using a new evaluation instrument: Patient Reported Experience Measures (PREMs).
Veronique Beauloye, Zeepreventorium

 

SO 8. Three families with TSH resistance and different clinical presentations
Sara Touzani, HUDERF

 

SO 9. The impact of chronic kidney disease on the renal circadian rhythms in children
Lien Dossche, UZ Gent

 

SO 10. Copeptin as a predictive biomarker for desmopressin response in children with enuresis
Lien Dossche, UZ Gent

 

SO 11. Risk and management of an acute aminoglycoside overdose: case report and literature review
Eline Hermans, UZ Gent

 

SO 12. Navigating the Unknown: Understanding and Managing Parental Anxiety When a Child is ill
Elise Simoens, UZ Leuven

   
  VVK/GBPF SESSION: FOCUS ON THE FIRST 1000 DAYS OF LIFE
Chairs: Ruth Heying (VVK) & Françoise Mascart (GBPF)

  Nutrition: new formula's/Breast feeding/nutrition fo children below the age of 3
Ellen Peeters, VVK
Evelien Snoeck, ZNA
  Ophtalmological screening in a very young patients. Facing the Myopia Epidemic.
Nathalie Schaeken, Ophtalmopediatric Myopia working group
  New presentations in dermatology
Hannelore De Maeseneer, Belgian Pediatric Dermatology Association
   

14:45-15:00

MINI BREAK

   

15:00-16:15

PARALLEL SESSIONS

 

SHORT ORAL PRESENTATIONS 2 (SO 13 - SO 24)

Chairs: Koen Huysentruyt (UZ Brussel) & Jean-François Questiaux (CHR Verviers)

 

SO 13. Decompensated vasoreactive pulmonary arterial hypertension following erroneous calcium channel antagonist magistral preparation
Charlotte Rosen, U Liège

 

SO 14. Evaluation of Late Cardiac Effects After Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children
Rik De Wolf, UZ Brussel

 

SO 15. Inotuzumab ozogamicin as a bridge to hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in relapsed pediatric BCP-ALL after CD19-targeted CAR T-cell therapy
Margo Aertgeerts, KU Leuven

 

SO 16. Retrospective study on the epidemiology of vincristine-induced peripheral neuropathy in patients with pediatric solid tumors
Leen Willems, UZ Gent

 

SO 17. Chronic myeloid leukemia in children and adolescents – clinicopathological results of a monocentric retrospective study
Louis Nevejan, UZ Leuven

 

SO 18. Retrospective study of children with chronic myeloid leukemia treated in Belgium between 2000 and 2021
Klaartje Van Schelvergem, Universiteit Gent

 

SO 19. Poorly differentiated thyroid carcinoma in children and adolescents: a very rare type of thyroid tumor related to DICER1 mutation.
Bradley D'heur, U Liège

 

SO 20. Missed diagnoses of seasonal Eosinophilic Esophagitis?
Jessica Bosmans, UZ Gent

 

SO 21. Self-reported prescribing behaviour of vitamin D Prophylaxis in healthy children by Belgian Paediatricians
Charlotte De Crem, Universiteit Gent

 

SO 22. Handgrip strength as a parameter of health outcome in hospitalized children or children with chronic disease
Liesbet Verbrugghe, UZ Brussel

 

SO 23. Does the new Dutch norms of the Alberta Infant Motor Scale better predict motor outcome in a Belgian preterm population? A 2 years follow-up study.
Clara Gautier, CHRSM Namur

 

SO 24. Invasive Group A streptococcal disease in a Tertiary Centre Paediatric Intensive Care Unit: an 8- year prospective cohortstudy.
Justine De Paepe, UZ Gent

   
 

VVK/GBPF SESSION: FOCUS ON THE FIRST 1000 DAYS OF LIFE
Chairs: Ruth Heying (VVK) & Françoise Mascart (GBPF)

 

Psychoperinatality: a new challenge in mental health prevention
Isabelle Dalem, CHC Liège

   

16:15-16:45

COFFEE BREAK

 

 

16:45-18:00

PLENARY 2: MAKING THE RIGHT CHOICES

Chair: Myriam Van Winckel (UZ Gent) & Christophe Barrea (CHR de la Citadelle)

 

Prevention of burn out in pediatrics
Elke Van Hoof, VUB, Centre of resiliance & Ally Institute

 

Choosing wisely: overuse of medical care in pediatrics
Ketil Stordal, University of Oslo, Norway