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Monday, November 2 
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6:30 am – 6:00 pm Registration
6:45 – 7:45 am Early Morning Workshops
8:00 – 9:30 am Presidential Plenary I
8:00 am – 5:30 pm Poster Session III (presentation time 1:00 – 2:30pm)
9:30 – 10:00 am Award Presentations (DAA and DSA)
9:30 am – 3:00 pm Exhibits Open
10:00 – 10:30 am

Hyman J Zimmerman Hepatoxicity State-of-the-Art Lecture: Bioartificial Livers and Their Potential Use in Drug Toxicity Screening

11:00 am – 12:30 pm Presidential Plenary II
11:00 am – 12:30 pm Advances for Practitioners
3:00 – 4:30 pm Parallel Sessions
3:00 – 4:30 pm 

General Hepatology Update II: Management of Hepatic Encephalopathy; Alcoholic Liver Disease; Acute Liver Failure

Moderators: Gregory J. Gores, MD and Andrea Ewing Reid, MD
3:00 – 4:30 pm

Global HCC Update (AASLD/EASL/APASL): International Management Strategies for HCC in Patients with Advanced Liver Disease

3:00 – 5:00 pm
AASLD/CDC Corner
4:45 – 6:15 pm  Late-breaking Abstracts
4:45 – 6:15 pm Parallel Sessions
5:00 – 6:30 pm  Practice Management Workshop
Moderator: Vinod K. Rustgi, MD
6:30 pm Industry-supported Satellite Symposia
7:00 – 10:00 pm Focused Study Groups
1. Primary Prophylaxis of Variceal Hemorrhage in Children: Can We Really Do a Randomized Trial?

Moderators: Simon C. Ling, MBChB, MRCP and Kathleen B. Schwarz, MD

2. Cellular Targets of Lipotoxicity in NAFLD

Moderators: Gyorgy Baffy, MD, PhD; Stephen H. Caldwell, MD; and Stephen A. Harrison, MD
7:00 – 10:00 pm Mini-symposia
1. Diagnosis and Treatment of Very Early Stage HCC


Moderator: Morris Sherman, MD, PhD 

2. Antifibrotic Therapy – Translation into the Clinic

Moderators: Scott L. Friedman MD and Detlef Schuppan MD, PhD

3. Recent Advances in the Management of Minimal and
Overt Hepatic Encephalopathy – Are We There Yet?


Moderators: Jasmohan Bajaj, MD and Kevin D. Mullen, MD