2011 Annual Report - AASLD
2011 Annual Report - AASLD
2011 Annual Report - AASLD
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Educate/Train<br />
The Liver Meeting ® <strong>2011</strong><br />
The premier event in the science and practice of hepatology; where the cutting<br />
edge in the study and treatment of liver and biliary diseases is defined. The Liver<br />
Meeting ® is designed specifically to educate hepatology professionals on the<br />
dynamic changes in their field and to connect leading scientists around the world.<br />
Educate / Train<br />
The Liver Meeting ® <strong>2011</strong> had its greatest<br />
presence in history with a total of 8,764<br />
attendees representing an increase of 663<br />
registrants over 2010 (Boston) and 1,063<br />
in 2008 (San Francisco). The exhibit hall,<br />
staffed by more than 1,100 exhibit personnel<br />
and 85 companies, displayed products<br />
and services related to hepatology. The<br />
attendance, evaluations and comments reflect<br />
a meeting that is maintaining its credibility<br />
within the hepatology community.<br />
In 2012, the meeting returns to Boston and<br />
in 2013 moves to Washington, DC for the<br />
first time.<br />
Postgraduate Course<br />
The <strong>AASLD</strong> Postgraduate Course highlights a<br />
significant issue of liver research facing physicians<br />
today; there were more than 3,100 registrants in <strong>2011</strong>.<br />
• Topic: Cirrhosis: Current Challenges<br />
and Future Direction<br />
• Course Directors: Guadalupe Garcia-Tsao, MD<br />
and Patrick S. Kamath, MD<br />
Cirrhosis is the end stage of chronic liver disease<br />
and places the patient at risk of death. Therefore, it is<br />
essential that practitioners involved in the management<br />
of patients with chronic liver disease understand<br />
the mechanisms of development of cirrhosis and<br />
its complications, and recognize preventative and<br />
therapeutic maneuvers that keep the patient alive with<br />
an adequate quality of life for the longest possible time.<br />
Remarkable scientific advances in the field of cirrhosis<br />
and its complications have resulted in major advances<br />
in clinical care of patients with cirrhosis. Increasingly,<br />
rational therapies are being developed based on the<br />
understandings of mechanisms of liver disease. This<br />
Postgraduate Course linked these mechanisms to<br />
emerging and rational therapies.<br />
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