Weekly News

January 7 | 2026

As we welcome the New Year, all of us at NASPGHAN extend our sincere gratitude for your continued engagement, dedication, and commitment to advancing the care of children with gastrointestinal and nutritional disorders.

We look forward to an exciting year ahead—one filled with collaboration, innovation, and meaningful progress across education, research, advocacy, and clinical care. Thank you for being an essential part of our community, and best wishes for a healthy, successful, and fulfilling year ahead!

Kick Off the New Year by Renewing Your NASPGHAN Membership

Thank you to the many members who have already renewed their membership for 2026. Your continued engagement and support are greatly appreciated.

With a new year, there is a new opportunity to recommit to NASPGHAN and maintain access to the Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition (JPGN). JPGN access is suspended on February 2 if 2026 dues remain unpaid. Renewing ensures uninterrupted access to JPGN, early notification of new educational offerings on LearnOnLine, discounted registration for NASPGHAN meetings, and other valuable member benefits.

To renew, log in to the Member Center on the NASPGHAN website, review and update your profile under the “About Me” tab, and select “Renew Now” to access and pay your 2026 dues invoice. Renew today to maintain continuous access to all member benefits.

Need assistance? Please email membership@naspghan.org or call 215-641-9800.

NASPGHAN Advocacy

Administration Changes Childhood Vaccine Schedule

Health and Human Services (HHS) Deputy Secretary Jim O’Neill, who is currently acting as the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s leader, signed a decision memo on January 5, making dramatic changes to the childhood vaccine schedule. In making these changes, the Administration bypassed its own vaccine advisory body.

CDC Adopts ACIP Hepatitis B Vaccine Recommendations

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has thrown out the recommendation for a universal birth hepatitis B vaccine dose and replaced it with the position that the first hepatitis B vaccine should be delayed until two months of age for infants born to mothers who test negative for the virus. Parents, in consultation with their health care provider, can still decide when or if their child will begin the hepatitis B vaccine series. Read the CDC press release here.

January JPGN

The January issue of JPGN is now available and posted online.

If you have previously accessed JPGN online through the Wiley library, please enter your username and password to access the January issue. Once you are on the site, you can sign up for email alerts related to JPGN and its contents. We trust all paid NASPGHAN members, and those who purchased JPGN separately have received an email directly from Wiley with access instructions to set up a JPGN account. There is additional information on the NASPGHAN website about this process.

If you do not receive the emailed instructions for access, don't hesitate to get in touch with Lisa Clayton at the NASPGHAN National Office.

Note: If you have not yet paid your 2026 NASPGHAN fees or purchased JPGN as an optional item, you will not have access to JPGN online.

The NASPGHAN Position Paper

Gastroenterology: Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Reshaping study design for faster extrapolation‐based drug approval in pediatric inflammatory bowel diseases: An ESPGHAN–NASPGHAN position paper

Dan Turner, Amit Assa, Mikkel Malham, Shira Yuval Bar-Asher, Carla Rayan, Jeffrey S. Hyams, Holm H. Uhlig, Brad Pasternak, David C. Wilson, Hilary K. Michel, Lissy de Ridder, Eric Zuckerman, Marina Aloi, Peter Szitanyi, Marla C. Dubinsky, Anne M. Griffiths, Roberto Saldana, Javier Martín-de-Carpi, Eytan Wine, Richard K. Russell, Jeremy Adler, Joseph Picoraro Version of Record online: 31 December 2025

The NASPGHAN Foundation is pleased to announce incoming Board members. We are grateful to these distinguished leaders for their willingness to serve and support the Foundation’s mission to advance research, education, and care in pediatric gastroenterology, hepatology, and nutrition.

We look forward to the expertise, perspective, and leadership they will bring in the year ahead!