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2011 Program 

Program-at-a-Glance

The Liver Meeting® provides a forum for the exchange of groundbreaking basic, translational, and clinical research in diseases of the liver and biliary tract, and in liver transplantation. This meeting creates an arena for the presentation and interchange of opinions on state-of-the-art care and management of the full spectrum of patients with liver disease.

Overall Goals and Objectives

• Provide a forum for the exchange of groundbreaking basic, translational, and clinical research in diseases of the liver and biliary tract and in liver transplantation;

• Create an arena for the presentation and interchange of opinions on state-of-the-art care and management of the full spectrum of patients with liver diseases.

Target Audience: Clinical hepatologists, gastroenterologists, and other health care providers (surgeons, internists, pediatricians, family practitioners, midlevel providers), including students, residents, and specialty fellows. Scientists studying the development, physiology, and pathology of the liver and biliary tract and liver transplantation.

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 Program-at-a-Glance

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Thursday, November 3
2:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Registration
 
Friday, November 4
6:30 am - 7:30 am
Registration
7:55 am - 3:15 pm
AASLD/ILTS Transplant Course: Transplant Immunosuppression: "Does One Size Fit All?"
8:30 am - 2:00 pm
AASLD/ASGE Endoscopy Course: Endoscopy and Hepatobiliary Disorders
12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
AASLD/NASPGHAN Pediatric Symposium: Update on Pediatric Autoimmune Liver Diseases
12:00 pm - 3:30 pm
3:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Postgraduate Course: Cirrhosis: Current Challenges and Future Directions
 
Saturday, November 5
6:30 am - 7:30 pm
Registration
8:00 am - 10:40 am
SIG Program: Crash Course on Genomics—and How It Can Benefit Your Patients and Your Career
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Postgraduate Course: Cirrhosis: Current Challenges and Future Directions
12:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Transplant Surgery Workshop: The Practice of Donor/Recipient Matching for Liver Transplantation: Science or Art?
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Postgraduate Course Meet-the-Professor Luncheons
2:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Poster Session I Viewing (presentations 5:30 - 7:30 pm)
5:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Exhibits Open
5:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Opening Reception
5:15 pm - 6:15 pm
Business Meeting (members only)
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
7:30 pm - 10:00 pm
Industry-supported Satellite Symposia
 
Sunday, November 6
6:30 am - 8:00 am
Professional Development Workshop: Advice I Wished I’d
Gotten 15 Years Ago: Lessons I Learned the Hard Way
6:30 am - 6:00 pm
Registration
6:45 am - 7:45 am
8:00 am - 9:30 am
8:00 am - 12:00 pm
Basic Research Workshop: MicroRNAs in Liver Diseases
8:00 am - 1:30 pm
8:00 am - 5:30 pm
Poster Session II Viewing (presentations 12:30 – 2:00pm)
9:30 am - 10:00 am
9:30 am - 3:00 pm
Exhibits Open
10:30 am - 12:00 pm
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Hans Popper State-of-the-Art Lecture: Heart Attacks and Other Liver Diseases
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
1:00 pm - 2:50 pm
AASLD/CDC Corner: Global Perspectives on Viral Hepatitis
1:15 pm - 2:45 pm
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
3:15 pm - 3:45 pm
President’s Choice: Towards Immunological Equity: A Global Vision
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Global Forum: The Global Paths to Public Health Prosperity in Liver Diseases
4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
AASLD/NIAID NIH Corner: Viral Hepatitis – Past, Present
and Future
4:45 pm - 6:15 pm
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
SIG Program: Clinical Frontiers in NAFLD
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
SIG Program: The Role of Adaptive Immunity in
Drug-induced Liver Injury
6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Industry-supported Satellite Symposia
 
Monday, November 7
6:30 am - 6:00 pm
Registration
6:45 am - 7:45 am
8:00 am - 9:30 am
8:00 am - 5:30 pm
Poster Session III Viewing (presentations  12:30 – 2:00pm)
9:30 am - 10:00 am
9:30 am - 3:00 pm
Exhibits Open
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Hyman J. Zimmerman Hepatotoxicity State-of-the-Art Lecture: Genetic Variants in Hepatic Transporters: Role in Drug Response and Toxicity
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
2:30 pm - 4:30 pm
2:45 pm - 4:15 pm
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
4:30 pm - 7:00 pm
HCV Symposium: Integrating HCV Practice Guidelines and Treatment Advances into Clinical Practice
4:45 pm - 6:15 pm
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
SIG Program: Kupffer Cells and NAFLD: Recent Insights
into the Role of Macrophage Polarization
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
SIG Program: Genetics of Complex Human Cholestatic
Disorders
6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Industry-Supported Satellite Symposia
 
Tuesday, November 8
6:30 am - 12:30 pm
Registration
6:45 am - 7:45 am
8:00 am - 9:30 am
8:00 am - 12:00 pm
8:00 am - 12:00 pm
Poster Session IV Viewing (presentations 10:30am – Noon)
9:30 am - 10:00 am
Leon Schiff State-of-the-Art Lecture: Studies on Multidrug
Resistance in Cancer Reveal New Insights into Liver
Physiology
10:00 am - 10:30 am
10:45 am - 12:15 pm