2020 PROGRAM
Sunday, March 1, 2020
7:00 - 8:00 AM
CASL Special Interest Group Meetings
7:00 - 7:30 AM
CAHN Breakfast
7:30 - 9:30 AM
CAHN AGM
8:00 - 9:00 AM
SYMPOSIUM (BEST OF AASLD)
Hemant Shah, UHN
- NAFLD, Giada Sebastiani, McGill University
- Portal Hypertension / Cirrhosis, Andrew Aronsohn, University of Chicago
- Alcohol, Phillipe Mathurin, INSERM
- HCV, Amit Singal, UT Southwestern Liver Centre
9:00 - 10:30 AM
ORAL ABSTRACT PRESENTATION
Keith Tsoi, McMaster University & Cynthia Tsien, University of Ottawa
- Women Likely to Benefit from Having a Potential Living Liver Donor Compared to Men, Mamatha Bhat, UHN
- Durable Response in the Markers of Cholestasis Through 5 Years of Open-Label Extension Study of Obeticholic Acid in Primary Biliary Cholangitis, Gideon Hirschfield, UHN
- Preventive Effect of Celecoxib in Sorafenib-Related Hand-Foot Syndrome in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Patients, a Single-Center, Open-Label, Randomized, Controlled Clinical Phase III Trial, Jiancong Chen, First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University
- Noninvasive Tests (NITs) May More Accurately Quantify Fibrosis than Liver Histology in Patients with Advanced Fibrosis Due to NASH, Keyur Patel, UHN
- Health-Related Quality of Life – a Rapid Independent Predictor of Hospitalizations and Mortality in Cirrhosis, Beverley Kok, University of Alberta Hospital
- Hemojuvelin Deficiency Predisposes Mice to Hepatocellular Carcinoma, Kostas Pantopoulos, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research/McGill University
10:30 - 10:45 AM
Coffee Break & Poster Sessions
10:45 - 12:25 PM
SYMPOSIUM ‑ STATE OF THE ART: HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA AND CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA
Adam Gehring, UHN & Ebehard Renner, University of Manitoba
- Differences in Clonal Evolution of Recurrent Hepatocellular Carinoma Depending on the Immune Environment, Mamatha Bhat, UHN
- Current Status of Liver Transplantation for Cholangiocarcinoma/ Colorectal Metastases, Peter Metrakos, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- Oncolytic Viruses for Cancer Immunotherapy, Shashi Gujar, Dalhousie University
- Barriers and Controversies in HCC Surveillance, Amit Singal, UT Southwestern Liver Centre
- Systemic Therapy in HCC, Adrian di Bisceglie
12:25 - 1:15 PM
Gold Medal Lecture
1:15 - 1:45 PM
Closing Remarks and Awards