AASLD – JSH at JDDW 2024

Date: Thursday, October 31, 8:00 am - Sunday, November 3, 5:00 pm (EST)
Location: Kobe, Japan

Join the AASLD and the Japanese Society of Hepatology (JSH) for the annual joint symposium at the Japanese Digestive Disease Week (JDDW), which will be held in Kobe, Japan on October 31 - November 3, 2024.

Symposium Theme: New perspective on NAFLD vs. MASLD

Program Chairs

Calvin Pan (Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, NYU Langone Health, New York University Grossman School of Medicine)

Tatsuya Kanto (The Research Center for Hepatitis and Immunology, National Center for Global Health and Medicine)

 

Program Agenda

1. Change of nomenclature from NAFLD to MASLD: from epidemiology to clinical outcomes | Bilal Hameed (Division of Gastroenterology, University of California)

2. Problems of new concept of fatty liver disease in Japan | Katsutoshi Tokushige (Department of Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology, Tokyo Women's Medical University)

3. Novel clinical strategy utilizing noninvasive methods in patients with MASLD -the dawning era of Hepatology | Kento Imajo (Department of Gastroenterology, Shin-Yurigaoka General Hospital)

4. Management of MASLD in the real-world setting | Calvin Q. Pan (Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, NYU Langone Health, New York University Grossman School of Medicine)

5. Epidemiology and treatment of MASLD in Japanese real-world setting | Norio Akuta Department of Hepatology, Toranomon Hospital)

6. Research development and advances in MASLD therapy | Tinsay Woreta (Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine)

 

Discussant

Hirokazu Takahashi (Liver Center, Saga University Hospital) 

Takanori Itoh (Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Nagoya University Hospital)

 

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