November 27th and 28th, 2025
BASL Winter Meeting and Liver Course
Location
Vestar Conference Center
Van Diepenbeeckstraat 12, 2018 Antwerpen
Entrance parking
Lamorinièrestraat 53
2018 Antwerpen

Thursday 27 November 2025
Liver and General Hepatology Course
08:30 – 09:00 Registration
9:00 - 12:30 Liver Course
09:00 – 10.30 Session 1: Pathophysiology and diagnosis of MASLD
- Pathophysiology of MASLD – Bart Staels (University of Lille, France)
- Non-invasive tests for diagnosis and prognosis – Nicolas Lanthier (UCL)
- Pediatric MASLD: updates in screening and diagnosis – Jake Mann (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom)
10:30 – 10:45: Coffee break
11.00 – 12.30 Session 2: Treatment aspects of MASLD
- Obesity, bariatric surgery and alcohol – Anja Geerts (UZ Gent)
- Metabolic treatment as indirect liver therapy – Bart van der Schueren (UZ Leuven)
- Liver-direct therapies – Sven Francque (UZA)
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 - 17:00 General Hepatology Course
13:30 – 15:00 Session 1
- Managing bleeding in cirrhotic patients - Wim Laleman (UZ Leuven), Pierre Deltenre (Saint-Luc Bouge and HUB) and Lukas Van Melckebeke (UZ Leuven)
- Practical approach to the management of hepatitis B and C – Odile Warling (CHU de Liège), Thomas Vanwolleghem (UZA) and Marie Coessens (UZA)
15:00 – 15:15: Coffee break
15:15 – 17:00 Session 2
- Practical approach to cholestasis - Helena Degroote (UZ Brussel), Laura Weichselbaum (HUB) and Lander Heyerick (UZ Gent)
- When to transplant - Geraldine Dahlquist (UCL), Hans Van Vlierberghe (UZ Gent) and Guillaume Henin (UCL)
Friday 28 November 2025
Winter Meeting program
08:30 – 09:00 Registration
09:00 – 10.15 Session 1: Hepatology update
- Beneficial and side effects of GLP1 agonists – Sven Francque (UZA)
- Gut microbiota and liver disease – Bernd Schnabl (University of California San Diego, USA)
10:15 – 10:45: Coffee break
10:45 – 12.00 Session 2: Non-interactive discussion of clinical cases
12:00 - 12:15 Presentations of BASL YOUNG INVESTIGATORS AWARDS LAUREATES 2025 and short presentation by 2024 Laureates (Pierre Deltenre)
12:15 – 12:30 BASL awards for the best clinical and basic publications 2024 (Pierre Deltenre)
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 – 15:30 Session 3: Medications in liver disease
- Albumin in chronic liver diseases: current and expending indications - Paolo Caraceni (University of Bologna, Italy)
- Treating portal hypertension: always carvedilol? – Wim Laleman (KU Leuven)
- Statins old drugs as new therapy for liver diseases? - Ulrich Beuers (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
15:30 – 16:00: Coffee break
16:00 – 17:00 Past president talks
- History of hepatology, advancements in the field and practices – Jean Henrion (Jolimont)
- Big mistakes in hepatology – Isabelle Colle (Azorg)