BASL Winter Meeting and Liver Course

8.30-9.00 Registration

09.00-10.15 Session 1: HEPATOLOGY UPDATE
Moderators: Thomas Vanwolleghem and Eric Trepo (TBC)

1. MASH CPG: update: Elisabetta Bugianesi (University of Torino, Italy)
2. Benign Tumours: Jean Charles Nault (Paris Descartes Universite, France)

10.15-10.45 COFFEE BREAK

10.45-12.00 Session 2: NON-INTERACTIVE DISCUSSION OF CLINICAL CASES
Moderators: Filip Janssens and Marie de Vos (TBC)

12.00-12.15 Presentations of BASL YOUNG INVESTIGATORS AWARDS LAUREATES 2024 and short presentation by 2023 Laureates

12.15-12.30 BASL awards for the best clinical and basic publications 2023
(Thomas Vanwolleghem)

12.30-13.30 LUNCH

13.30-15.00 Session 3: Alcohol-related liver disease (first part)
Moderators: Pierre Deltenre and Anja Geerts (TBC)

1. Epidemiology and Diagnosis – Peter Stärkel (UCLouvain, Belgium)
2. Alcohol use disorder – Philippe De Timary (UCLouvain, Belgium)
3. Indications for liver transplantation in alcoholic hepatitis and alcohol-related liver disease and impact of alcohol relapse after transplantation – Philippe Mathurin (University Hospital Lille, France)

15.00-15.15 COFFEE BREAK

15.15-16.45 Session 4: Alcohol-related liver disease (second part)
Moderators: Wim Laleman and Sergio Negrin Dastis (TBC)

1. MetALD: How to deal with it? – A Krag (Odense University Hospital, Denmark)
2. Home monitoring for patients with decompensated cirrhosis – Raj Mookerjee (University College London, UK)
3. Non-oncological palliative care in hepatology – Nathalie Décosterd (Bern, Switzerland)

16.45-17.00 Conclusions and farewell

8.30-9.00 Registration

9.00-10.45  Session 1: Viral Hepatitis B/D: current and future treatment, special populations
Moderators: Marie Coessens and Pierre Deltenre

• Hepatitis B & D: clinical implications, current treatment
  Thomas Vanwolleghem (University of Antwerp)
• Hepatitis B: Immunology and future therapeutics
  Patrick Kennedy (University of London)
• Viral hepatitis in immunocompromised patients and pregnancy
  Thomas Sersté (CHU Saint-Pierre/CUB, Brussels)

10.45-11.15 COFFEE  BREAK
 

11.15-13.00  Session 1: Other viral hepatitis infections
Moderators: Sander Lefere and Wim  Verlinden

• Hepatitis C
  Sergio Negrin-Dastis (Grand Hopital de Charleroi/UCL Saint Luc, Brussels)
• Hepatitis A en E: translational insights
  Sven Pischke (University of Hamburg)
• Clinical importance of non-A-to-E hepatitis (including adenovirus hepatitis in children)
  Speaker TBC

13.00   Conclusion and farewell (Sander Lefere, yBASL)