Although case reports were not previously submitted to The Liver Meeting® (TLM), AASLD recognizes their effectiveness for trainees to learn from clinical submissions. Novel clinical observations provide new insight into clinical phenotypes or pathogenesis of disease. 

New for 2026, the Scientific Program Committee (SPC) is accepting case report submissions from trainees and advanced practice providers (APP), and we encourage submissions within the following guidelines.  

Note: Case reports will be scored and ranked by the same peer-review team that scores abstract submissions, with reviewers assigned based on the category and descriptors selected by the submitting author. 

Submission guidelines: 

• The case must be reported by a medical student, resident, fellow-in-training, or APP.      
• The case should include a unique observation and/or a "teachable moment" that would be of value to others in the hepatology community. It should be described in a maximum of 2500 characters.      
• The case cannot have been previously published.    
• The case presentation must be HIPAA compliant. If any case content, including images, is identifiable as relevant to a specific patient, patient consent to share the information must be secured and shared with AASLD.      
• The author listed as the presenting author may not be listed as the first author on a research abstract as well.     
• An individual may be listed as presenting author on only one case report submission.    
• The presenting author is not required to participate in the care of the case being reported but some degree of direct experience with the case is encouraged.      
• Case reports must be reviewed by a faculty (trainees) or physician (APPs) mentor prior to submission.