FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

6:30 AM

Registration, Breakfast, and Visit Exhibits/Posters

​

7:00 AM 

PBC Symposium

Nikolaos T. Pyrsopoulos, MD, PhD, MBA

CLDF Independent Symposium

​

8:00 AM

Welcome and Introductions

Nikolaos T. Pyrsopoulos, MD, PhD, MBA

Rutgers New Jersey Medical School

​

SESSION I

8:10 AM

Hepatorenal Syndrome Treatment in the US Today

Nikolaos T. Pyrsopoulos, MD, PhD, MBA

Rutgers New Jersey Medical School

8:40 AM

Eosinophilic Esophagitis

Seyedehsan Navabi, MD 

Rutgers New Jersey Medical School

​

9:10 AM

Interactive Panel Discussion

​

9:20 AM

Break and Visit Exhibits/Posters

​

SESSION II

9:35 AM

New Treatment Innovations in UC & Crohn’s

Stephen Hanauer, MD

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

10:05 AM

New Advances in NASH in 2022

David Kaplan, MD
Penn Medicine

10:35 AM

Indeterminate Colitis: How to Approach?

Farzana Rashid, MD

Penn Medicine

​

11:05 AM

How to Increase the Adenoma Detection Rate?

Sushil Ahlawat, MD

Rutgers New Jersey Medical School

11:35 AM  

Interactive Panel Discussion

11:45 AM

Break/Lunch

​

12:15 PM

Industry-Sponsored Event

​

1:00 PM

Break and Visit Exhibits/Posters

​SESSION III

1:30 PM

Introduction of the 9th Annual Digestive Diseases:

New Advances Distinguished Lecturer 2022

Nikolaos T. Pyrsopoulos, MD, PhD, MBA

Rutgers New Jersey Medical School

9th Annual Digestive Diseases: New Advances Distinguished Lecturer 2022

Viral Hepatitis Elimination

Rajender Reddy, MD

Penn Medicine

​

2:00 PM

Hepatitis B & Hepatitis D in 2022

Jordan Feld, MD, MPH

Toronto General Hospital Research Institute

2:30 PM

Hepatitis C: What’s New?
Is There Any Difficult to Treat Populations Nowadays?

Kimberly Brown, MD

Henry Ford Health

​

3:00 PM

Current Advances in Liver Transplantation

James Guarrera, MD

Rutgers New Jersey Medical School

​

3:30 PM

Interactive Panel Discussion

​

3:40 PM

Break and Visit Exhibits/Posters

​

3:55 PM

Minimally Invasive vs Surgical Bariatric Interventions. Winner?

Kaveh Hajifathalian, MD

Rutgers New Jersey Medical School

​

4:25 PM

POEM, GPOEM, Mucosectomy, What Else?

Georgios Papachristou, MD

The Ohio State University - Wexner Medical Center

​

4:55 PM

Gastroparesis: Are We Moving on This Today?

Seyedehsan Navabi, MD 

Rutgers New Jersey Medical School

​

5:25 PM

NASH – Diagnostic and Prognostic Non-Invasive Tests

Nikolaos T. Pyrsopoulos, MD, PhD, MBA

Rutgers New Jersey Medical School

​

5:55 PM

IBS-C and IBS-D: Treatment Updates and Innovations

Anthony J. Lembo, MD

Harvard Medical School

​

6:25 PM

Interactive Panel Discussion

​

6:35 PM

Conference Reception