The PIBD 2009 ”The forthcoming international Symposium on Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Diseases”. This symposium is the first international meeting particularly dedicated to pediatric forms of IBD and organized by the IBD working group of ESPGHAN in collaboration with pediatric IBD experts form NASPGHAN and all over the world making it a true international event. This meeting follows up on the very successful European pediatric IBD symposium in Rome in november 2006.

“We are very pleased to bring you together with scientific and clinical leaders from all over the world in the field of pediatric as well as adult IBD, immunology and microbiology and all related specialities during these 2.5 days in September 2009. The very ambitious and innovative programme is based on a well balanced exchange of basic science and clinical research allowing state of the art view of the recent advances in pediatric IBD and a lot of time for discussions.”