1. To review the relative benefits and limitations of drug therapy versus dietary intervention for the treatment of IBD 
2. To understand circumstances in which one may consider using drug therapy, dietary intervention or combine the two
3. To consider how treatment paradigms may change in the future to include increased emphasis on the role of dietary interventions

Nathalie Auger and Marianne Bilodeau-Bertrand describe their absolutely enormous epidemiological study of 3 decades of data from Quebec, Canada identifying birth-defects for offspring of almost 22,000 mothers with IBD.

Dr Christopher Cardinale describes his work to uncover the effects of a non-coding SNP on signalling through the JAK2 pathway.