21st Annual Hepatology Symposium - High Impact Hepatology: An Update on Care of the Patient with Liver Disease

Description

The practice of clinical Hepatology remains challenging for many gastroenterologists due to rapidly changing disease management paradigms and often complex, critically-ill patients. The 21st Annual High Impact Hepatology program is specifically designed to bring the latest information from national and international meetings to gastroenterology healthcare providers. Advances in nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, alcohol induced liver disease, liver cancer, and liver transplantation will be discussed by the UNC Liver Center attending Hepatologists and invited speakers. This iteration of our meeting is designed to address practice gaps for the gastroenterologist, primary care physician, and advanced practice provider. We seek to de-mystify liver related care and bring practical advice and best-practice guidance to the general gastroenterologist and general internist.

Jointly Provided by

Target Audience

Physicians, Fellows, Residents, Physician Assistants, Nurses/Nurse Practitioners

Objectives

• Learn about non-invasive techniques to assess disease severity in NASH and other chronic liver diseases.
• Identify ways of incorporating multidisciplinary care for patients with alcohol induced liver disease.
• Discuss integration of the latest clinical trials data into the management of individual patients in order to maximize treatment outcomes for chronic liver diseases.
• Review new concepts in the screening surveillance and treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma.
• Discuss updates to the approach to transplanting patients with alcohol induced liver disease.
• Learn about appropriate donor and recipient selection for living donor liver transplant.

Faculty

• Sid S. Barritt, MD MSCR FACG FAASLD
• Chirag S. Desai, MD
• Jessica Diket, PhD
• Oren Fix, MD
• Patricia D. Jones, MD, MSCR
• Neil D. Shah, MD
• Hersh Shroff, MD