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The Best of The Liver Meeting 

Revisit: The Best of The Liver Meeting® 2009 
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The Best of The Liver Meeting® lets you catch up with what you missed at the meeting and enables you to revisit a session.  All of the sessions are presented with audio and synchronized slide presentations.  Below is a list of The Best of The Liver Meeting® 2009 sessions.

 Program Presentation  Presenter
Hans Popper Basic Science State-of-the-Art Lecture Pierre Clavien, MD, PhD
Thomas E. Starzl Transplant Surgery State-of-the-Art Lecture What is Critical for Liver Surgery and Partial Liver Transplantation-Size or Quality?  
Phillip A. Sharp, PhD
Leon Schiff State-of-the-Art Lecture Hemochromatosis-a New Disease Paradigm
Antonello Pietrangelo, MD, PhD
Global HCC Update Jean-Francois Dufour, MD
APASL Perspective Masao Omata, MD
AASLD Perspective Gregory J. Gores, MD
General Hepatology Update I Ascites Management in Older Patients: To TIPS or not to TIPS?
Thomas D. Boyer, MD 
Update in the Treatment for Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD)
Zobair M. Younossi, MD
General Hepatology Update II Management of Hepatic Encephalopathy
Nathan M. Bass, MD, PhD
Acute Liver Failure
William M. Lee, MD
Career Development Workshop Mentee Perspective: “Effective Menteeship” Rohit Loomba, MD
How to Publish Your Data David A. Brenner, MD
Career Paths in Hepatology Gregory Gores, MD
Role of the Fourth Year Transplant Hepatology Fellowship Steven K. Herrine, MD
Negotiating an Academic Contract/Start up Packages Bruce A. Luxon, MD, PhD
Basic and Clinical Research for the Junior Investigator Craig J. McClain, MD
NIH Career Developments Awards: Who, When, Which, and How? Judith Podskalny, PhD
Effective Mentorship: The Senior Faculty Perspective Adrian M. Di Bisceglie, MD
Postgraduate Course When to Consider Liver Transplantation: Assessment of Prognosis in Subjects with Cirrhosis Patrick S. Kamath, MD
Evaluation of the Transplant Recipient Adrian Reuben, MBBS, FRCP, FACG
Evaluation of a Potential Donor for Live Donor Liver Transplantation R. Todd Stravitz, MD
The Pathophysiology of Portal Hypertension and Development of Varices Don Rockey, MD
Management of Active Variceal Hemorrhage Jaime Bosch, MD, PhD
Gastric Varices and Portal Gastropathy Shiv Sarin, MD
Debate: Endoscopic Therapy is the Preferred Approach for Primary Prevention of Variceal Hemorrhage: Against A K Burroughs, FRCP
Debate: Endoscopic Therapy is the Preferred Approach for Primary Prevention of Variceal Hemorrhage: For Loren Laine, MD
Causes and Management of Portal Hypertension in Children Benjamin L. Shneider, MD
Biliary Atresia and Its Management Saul J. Karpen, MD, PhD
Timing and Evaluation of Liver Transplantation in Children John C. Bucuvalas, MD
The Hepatorenal Axis: Pathophysiology of Ascites and Renal Failure in Cirrhois Florence Wong, MD
Difficult to Manage Ascites: Causes, Evaluation and Management Thomas Boyer, MD
Prevention and Management of Renal Failure in the Subject with Cirrhois and Ascites Guadalupe Garcia-Tsao, MD
Current Concepts on the Pathogenesis of Neurologic Dysfunction in Cirrhois Robert F. Butterworth, PhD
Coagulation Disorders and Use of Blood Products in Cirrhosis Stephen H. Caldwell, MD
Subclinical and Chronic Encephalopathy: Practical Issues in Evaluation and Management Jasmohan Bajaj, MD
Viral Hepatitis Gregory T. Everson, MD
Acute on Chronic Liver Failure Rajiv Jalan, MD, PhD
Hepato-pulmonary Syndrome Michael B. Fallon, MD
Mechanisms of Carciogenesis and Identification of Novel Therapeutic Targets Gregory J. Gores, MD
Bone Disease in Patients with Cirrhosis J. Eileen Hay, MD
Matching Locoregional Therapy and Disease Severity Laura M. Kulik, MD
Cirrhotic Cardiomyopathy Samuel S. Lee, MD
Alcohol/Drug Abuse and Other Behavioral Disorders Michael R. Lucey, MD
Screening and Initial Management for HCC Jorge A. Marrero, MD
Nutrition Related Issues in Subjects with Cirrhosis Arthur J. McCullough, MD
Non-hepatic Surgery in the Subject with Cirrhosis: Evaluation of Rish and Management Strategies  Kim M. Olthoff, MD
Portopulmonary Hypertension Karen L. Swanson, MD
Drugs and Hepatotoxicity William M. Lee, MD
Practice Management Workshop Payment Reform and Impact on Specialists Stephen C. Schoenbaum, MD
Specialist Manpower Needs Richard A. Cooper, MD
Financial Insights for Hepatologists in the Office and the Transplant Division
Coleman I. Smith, MD
Integrity Research Workshop Ethical Challenges in Data Management and Publication of Hepatology Research
Patrick Kamath, MD
Vijah Shah, MD
Michael R. Lucey, MD
D. Montgomery Bissell, MD
E. Jenny Heathcote, MD
John Iredale, MD

 

Also: View abstracts from the 2006 and 2007 meetings as well as both  posters and abstracts from the 2008 meeting.