Liver Care for Frontline Clinicians (Denver)
Date : Saturday, November 7, 8:00 am - 4:30 pm (EST) Location : Hyatt Regency Denver Continuing Education Credits : Maximum of 7.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
Please note this event takes place in Denver and is scheduled in Mountain Time.
Organized by: Past President, W. Ray Kim and Elizabeth Aby
Co-organizers: Mia Lozada, Hazel Domingo, Jimyeong Son, Christine Esquivel, Shraddha Batra, and Ashley Kell
The Liver Care for Frontline Clinicians program is designed to empower practitioners in primary care, internal medicine, emergency medicine, gastroenterology, and advanced practice providers with the skills to prevent, detect, and manage liver disease across the continuum of care, without adding complexity to an already full patient visit.
Your role is crucial. Patients at risk for liver disease often have co-morbidities such as type 2 diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, alcohol use disorder, hypertension, and kidney disease. By addressing the underlying liver condition, you can directly improve the patient’s overall health and positively impact these associated conditions.
What You’ll Gain
- Apply principles of primary and secondary prevention to screen for, diagnose, and manage patients with liver disease in primary care settings.
- Interpret and utilize noninvasive diagnostic tools, including laboratory tests and elastography, to assess liver disease and guide treatment and referral decisions.
- Implement evidence-based management and surveillance protocols for chronic liver diseases.
- Incorporate behavioral and pharmacologic strategies for steatotic liver disease into routine care to improve liver health.
- Integrate practical workflow solutions and multidisciplinary collaboration into clinical practice to support sustainable, patient-centered liver health care delivery.
Join this timely program and be part of the prevention and improvement of liver health.
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Saturday, Nov 7
- 8 a.m. Welcome & Intro
- 8:05 – 9:45 a.m. Liver Health Essentials: What Every Clinician Must Know
- 8:05 a.m.: Why Preventative Hepatology? | W. Ray Kim, MD, FAASLD
- 8:25 a.m.: Natural History of Chronic Liver Disease | Eliott Tapper, MD, FAASLD
- 8:45 a.m.: Laboratory Evaluation of the Liver | Alina Allen, MD
- 9:05 a.m.: Liver Imaging and Elastography | Rohit Loomba, MD, MHSc, FAASLD
- 9:25 a.m.: Audience Q&A
- 10:05 – 11:45 a.m.: The New Landscape of Steatotic Liver Disease
- 10:05 a.m.: Navigating the Spectrum: Screening and Diagnosis of MASLD and ALD in Primary Care | Naim Alkhouri, MD
- 10:25 a.m.: MASLD: Decisions for Treatment, Referral and Monitoring | Mazen Noureddin, MD, MHSc
- 10:45 a.m.: Food for the Liver: High-Yield Counseling in Nutrition For Liver Health | Ani Kardashian, MD
- 11:05 a.m.: Holistic Care of Liver Patients: Non-Dietary Lifestyle Changes and Co-Morbidity Management | Meena Bansal, MD, FAASLD
- 11:25 a.m.: Audience Q&A
- 11:45 a.m. – 12:40 p.m.: Lunch
- 12:40 – 2:20 p.m.: Secondary Prevention: Eliminating Liver Disease Impact
- 12:40 p.m.: Viral Hepatitis: Eliminating Hepatitis B & C in Primary Care | Paul Kwo, MD, FAASLD
- 1 p.m.: Autoimmune and Cholestatic Liver Disease: Recognition and Management in Primary Care | Marilyn Mayo, MD, FAASLD
- 1:20 p.m.: Alcohol-Related Liver Disease: Best Practices in Communication, Risk Stratification, and Non-Invasive Assessment | Juan Pablo Arab, MD, FRCPC
- 1:40 p.m.: Alcohol Use Disorder in Liver Disease: Treatment Strategies and Transplant Referral Timing | Gene Im, MD, FAASLD
- 2 p.m.: Audience Q&A
- 2:40 – 4:20 p.m.: Preventive Hepatology: Actionable Tools for Frontline Clinicians
- 2:40 p.m.: Medication Management in Patients with Chronic Liver Disease | Grace Su, MD, FAASLD
- 3 p.m.: Cirrhosis in Primary Care: How to Keep the Patient Healthy and When to Refer for Transplantation | Aparna Goel, MD
- 3:20 p.m.: What My Clinic Looks Like: Infrastructure, The Team and the System of Support | Jimyeong Son, NP
- 3:40 p.m.: Creating a Liver Toolbox: Clinical Pearls for Primary Care | Mia Lozada, MD
- 4 p.m.: Case Review/Q&Ahttps://my.aasld.org/NC__Event?id=a0lVR00000EmwRRYAZ
- 4:20 – 4:25 p.m.: Closing
Registration Pricing
Attend the one-day program with lunch and afternoon snacks and coffee provided.
| Registration Rate | |
|---|---|
| Physician | $250 |
| Resident/Trainee (Post-Doc) | $100 |
| Associates (RN, NP, PharmD) | $100 |
| Student | $50 |
| Industry | $450 |
Cancellation policy: Cancellations must be made in writing to meetings@aasld.org before October 24, 2026. A 10% cancellation fee will be applied to the refund. Any cancellations starting October 25, 2026, will not be refunded.
CE Accreditation Statement
The American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases designates this live activity for a maximum of 7.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
