Liver & Biliary

Dear Member of the Liver and Biliary Section and interested others:

Thank you for making our sessions at the 41st annual DDW® in New Orleans, LA scientifically relevant and exciting! If you have specific feedback regarding speakers sponsored by the Liver and Biliary (LB) Section at DDW, please share your thoughts with us. We will do our best to consider your comments and concerns as we plan our program for next DDW 2011 in Chicago.

This year the LB section accepted the majority of the abstracts submitted. The accepted abstracts were designated as oral or poster presentations and of distinction based on their ranking by our dedicated abstract reviewers.

LB Abstract Selection 2010
Total Abstracts submitted 145
Accepted Abstracts 108
Oral Presentations 12
Posters 96
Posters of Distinction 11

LB sponsored Clinical and Research Symposia, and abstract based Research and Topic Fora.

LB Sessions
Sunday, May 2, 2010 Attendance
Topic Forum: Biliary Tract Disease 8:30am-10:00am 20
SOA Lecture: JNK in Liver Inflammation and Injury 10:30am-11:30am 30
Monday, May 3, 2010
Translational Symposium: HIV/Co-Infected Patients with HBV and HCV 2:15pm-3:15pm 70
Research Forum: Liver & Biliary Tract Pathobiology 4:00pm-5:30pm unknown
Liver & Biliary Section Business Meeting 5:30pm-6:30pm unknown
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Translational Symposium: Iron Storage Disorders 8:30am-10:00am 45
Clinical Symposium: Liver Lung Syndromes 10:30am-12:00pm 250

Each June, LB section descriptors are reviewed to optimize scientific relevance and minimize overlapping topics with other AGA Institute Sections and to encourage both clinical research and basic science abstract submissions. The current list of abstract descriptors is as follows. (LB descriptors may change as we go forward to DDW 2011.) We would like to thank our abstract review Committee Chairs and members for generously sharing their expertise and time in order to ensure that the most novel and relevant developments in Liver & Biliary were shared at DDW.

Descriptor Name Abstracts Received Abstract Review Chair Abstract Reviewers
Clinical Biliary Tract Disorders, Stone Diseases and Stone Pathogenesis 31 Adam Slivka Abdullah Al-Osaimi, David Wang, John Martin
Clinical Hepatitis: Etiology, Diagnosis, Management and Natural History 42 F. Fred Poordad Fredric Gordon, Nancy Reau, Robert Brown, Steve Flamm
Liver and Biliary Carcinoma: Management, Etiology, Diagnosis and Natural History 25 Adam Slivka John Martin, Neeraj K. Saxena, Abdullah Al-Osaimi
Complications of Liver Disease 20 Jamile Wakim-Fleming Marco Bertolotti, Karel J. Van Erpecum
Metabolic and Genetic Liver Disease, Including Alcoholic and Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Diseases 19 Claudia Zein Sean Koppe, Ariel Feldstein
Metabolism, Portal Hypertension and Vascular Diseases of the Liver 9 Claudia Zein Preeti Reshamwala, Louis Korman, John Baillie

Section leaders will review committee membership this summer for abstract review committees to confirm the final composition for DDW 2011 committees.

LB section members interested in serving in this capacity are encouraged to contact us and volunteer to review abstracts.

Please submit your invaluable ideas about the topics and invited speakers that you would like to hear at next year's DDW. The more specific you can be, the better (title, individual talks, speakers, learning objectives). Please forward your suggestions to John Whiton, AGA Institute by July 6, 2010.

Members interested in participating in the various activities of the Section should contact us at the addresses below. We are particularly interested in increasing participation by junior investigators/clinicians and international members at this time.

If you are interested in serving as a reviewer for any of our abstract descriptors, please let us know. Please cite the abstract descriptor for which you would be interested in reviewing.

Please recommend any new descriptors for abstracts.

Thank you for your continuing strong support of the Liver and Biliary Section.

Sincerely,

Frank A. Anania, MD, AGAF
Chair, LB Section, AGA Institute Council

Gregory J. Gores, MD, AGAF
Vice-Chair, LB Section, AGA Institute Council