program

Sunday, May 26, 2019

7:00 - 8:00 AM
CASL Special Interest Group Meetings

• HBV
• CPHRG
• Portal Hypertension & Complications of Cirrhosis

7:30 - 9:30 AM
CAHN Annual General Meeting (Members Only) 

8:00 - 8:50 AM
General Hepatitis Oral Abstract Presentations

• Vitamin E is an Effective Treatment for NASH in People Living with HIV: The CTN-PT 024 Trial
  Giada Sebastiani, McGill University
• Why Women Develop Less Hepatocellular Carcinoma: The Centrality of ESR1 and the Estrogen Effect
  Mamatha Bhat, University Health Network
• CD8+ T-cell Dysfunction in a Murine Model of Liver Fibrosis
  Angela Crawley, University of Ottawa
• Implementation of a Primary Care Shear-Wave Elastography (SWE)-Based Pathway to Identify Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) Patients with Advanced Fibrosis in a Large North American Urban Population
  Abdel Aziz Shaheen, University of Calgary
• Acyl CoA Thioesterase 1 Promotes Transition from Steatosis to Non-alcoholic Steatohepatitis
  Elisa Pasini, University Health Network

9:00 - 10:15 AM
Concurrent Session

• Immune Control/Dysfunction & Liver Disease

  • Visualizing the Immune Response in Healthy & Fatty Liver in Live Mice
    Craig Jenne, University of Calgary
  • Mechanisms Linking the Hemostatic System to Pro-Repair Macrophage Activation in Acute Liver Injury
    Jim Luyendyke, Michigan State University
  • Novel HBV Tests & Diagnostics
    Carla Osiowy, Public Health Agency of Canada
  • Progression Towards a Functional Cure for Hepatitis B
    Norah Terrault, USC Keck School of Medicine

• End Stage Liver Disease and Liver Transplantation 

  • Referral & Optimizing Pre-Transplant in NASH/NAFLD
    Giada Sebastini, McGill University
  • Use of HCV + Organ in Transplant Patients - Kidney and Liver
    Jordan Feld, University Health Network
  • Sex & Gender Differences in Listing & Allocation for Liver Transplant
    Mamatha Bhat, University Health Network

10:15 - 11:15 AM
Break, Posters & Exhibits

10:15 - 11:15 AM
CASL Special Interest Group Meeting

• Autoimmune Liver Diseases (CaNAL)

11:15 - 12:45 PM
Gold Medal Lecture & CASL Award Ceremony

11:15 - 12:00 PM
Updates on the Treatments of Ascites and Hepatorenal Syndrome Florence Wong, University of Toronto

12:00 - 12:45 PM
CASL Awards and Conference Closing

12:45 PM
CASL Awards and Conference Closing