NEW IN 2010
Pre - workshop educational course for practicing clinicians: Basics in Management of Liver Disease
Program of the Workshop
The final programme in pdf format is now available to the right of the screen.
Confirmed invited speakers
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N. Bräu: Hepatocellular Carcinoma in HIV-Infected Persons
Norbert Bräu, M.D., M.B.A.,, is Associate Professor of Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, Divisions of Infectious Diseases and Liver Diseases. He is also the medical director of the Viral Hepatitis Program at the Bronx Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He received his medical degree magna cum laude from the University of Würzburg (Germany) Medical School (1984) and his M.B.A. from Stern School of Business, New York University (1995). ...
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D. Dieterich: Management of Hepatitis C in Pregnancy
Douglas T. Dieterich, M.D. is currently Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hepatology and also Director of Continuing Medical Education in the Department of Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY. He has a triple appointment in the divisions of Liver Disease, Gastroenterology, and Infectious Diseases.
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B. Edlin: Treatment of Drug Abusers
Brian R. Edlin, M.D. serves as Professor of Medicine at the State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate College of Medicine, Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine and Public Health at Weill Medical College of Cornell University, and Epidemiologist for the Center for the Study of Hepatitis C in New York. He is an Attending Physician at the University Hospital of Brooklyn and an Associate Attending Physician at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Edlin's research focuses on the epidemiology and primary and secondary prevention of viral hepatitis, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, and other conditions affecting drug users. ...
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C. Flexner: Role of Drug Interactions in the Management of Hepatitis Virus Infections
Charles W. Flexner, M.D., is Professor of Medicine in the Divisions of Clinical Pharmacology and Infectious Diseases, and Professor of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is also Professor of International Health in the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. ...
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J. Idoko: Management of Hepatitis C and Hepatitis B in Resource Limited Settings
Prof. John Idoko M.D. , trained in internal medicine, infectious diseases and immunology of infections and has been an HIV physician since 1990. He was Principal Investigator of the Harvard University/AIDS Prevention Initiative Nigeria (APIN) Presidential Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR0 program at the Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH), situated in Jos, the capital of Plateau State in the north-central region of Nigeria. ...
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M. Puoti: New Drugs Targeting Hepatitis C
Massimo Puoti, M.D. is a specialist in Gastroenterology and in Infectious Disease. From 1988 consultant in the department of Infectious Diseases of the AO Spedali Civili of Brescia, Italy a General Teaching Hospital. From 2005 Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases in the School of Medicine of the University of Brescia. The main fields of research of dr. Puoti are Hepatitis Viruses and HIV infections. ...
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A. Rauch: The Interleukin 28B Gene and HCV Infection
Andri Rauch, M.D. is a specialist in Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine at the University Hospital Berne, Switzerland. After completion of his medical training, he joined the Murdoch University in Western Australia for a post-doctoral fellowship to study the influence of host genes on HCV evolution.
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K. Sherman: Updated Overview of HBV Treatment Issues
Kenneth E. Sherman, M.D., Ph.D. received his BS & PhD from Rutgers University and his MD from George Washington University. He holds an endowed chair as the Gould Professor of Medicine and serves as the Director of the Division of Digestive Diseases at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.
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V. Soriano: Non-cirrhotic Portal Hypertension in HIV
Vincent Soriano, M.D., Ph.D. received his medical degree at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, when he subsequently did his specialty in Internal Medicine. After a post-doc stage at the FDA (Bethesda, MD, USA), he returned to Spain and joined the Department of Infectious Diseases at Hospital Carlos III in Madrid, where since 1999 he is the Assistant Director. His expertise has focused mainly in viral infections, mainly HIV and viral hepatitis. ...
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M.L. Vachon: Aging Liver in HIV
Marie-Louise Vachon, M.D. received her Doctorate of Medicine from Sherbrooke University in Canada in 2002. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine and her fellowship in Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at Laval University in Quebec, Canada.
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Clinical Case Presenters
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R. Bruno: Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Raffaele Bruno, MD, is an Assistant Professor, Infectious Diseases and Staff Physician at the Institute of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, S. Matteo Hospital University of Pavia, Italy. In addition, he is the Chief of the Hepatology Outpatient Unit.
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E. Devitt: Hepatitis B
Emma Devitt, MD, graduated from Trinity College, Dublin in 2000. She completed higher training in both Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases in Ireland. During this program she undertook a 2 year period of dedicated research for a higher degree.
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J. V. Fernández: Treatment of Hepatitis C infected patients
José Vicente Fernández, MD , Carlos III Hospital, Madrid, Spain
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Ya’acov Maor, Michal Chovers: Drug Toxicity in Hepatitis infected patients
Ya’acov Maor, MD, Sheba Medical Center, Israel
Michal Chovers, MD, Meir Hospital, Tel Aviv University, Israel
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