Future of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) management
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In this forward-looking session, Prof. Michael Dolinger explores the future of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) management, emphasizing how technology, patient-centered care, and clinical innovation are reshaping long-term outcomes. He begins with a real patient story—an 11-year-old girl diagnosed with Crohn’s disease—to illustrate the lifelong challenges of chronic bowel inflammation and the limitations of traditional treatment approaches.
Prof. Dolinger highlights the importance of early diagnosis, proactive treatment strategies, and tools that offer real-time insights. Intestinal ultrasound (IUS), he argues, plays a critical role in the future of IBD care by enabling non-invasive, bedside imaging to monitor disease progression, assess therapeutic response, and avoid unnecessary endoscopy or MRI.
The webinar covers key IUS features such as bowel wall thickness, vascularity, and fat wrapping as biomarkers of inflammation. Prof. Dolinger explains how these parameters can guide treatment decisions more accurately and allow clinicians to tailor therapies before symptoms worsen.
He also emphasizes that intestinal ultrasound holds a bright future for IBD treatment, and that combining it with artificial intelligence (AI) could contribute to the development of new treatments. He also stated that efforts are underway to enable more medical professionals to acquire this technology and apply it to their patients through intestinal ultrasound training courses in the United States. The session concludes with insights into how integrating IUS into daily practice can help reduce healthcare costs, improve patient experiences, and change the trajectory of IBD from reactive to preventive care.
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