UPMC Physicians and Researchers Present at the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease 2018 Annual Meeting: “The Liver Meeting”

American Association for the Study of Liver disease will be held November 9-13 in San Francisco, CA. The Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition will be well represented with abstracts, presentations, and awards. 

View a list of UPMC and University of Pittsburgh presenters:

Friday – November 9, 2018
8:00 am: The Challenge of Fontan Associated Liver Disease -  Chair
Dr. Elizabeth Rand; Dr. Veena Venkat
Room 214-216

10:30 am: Evidence for Regression of Portal Hypertension Following Disease-Specific Treatment
Dr. Ramon Bataller
Room 24-25

4:30 pm: Academic Diabetes – Moderator
Dr. Michael Lucey; Dr. Naudia Jonassaint; Dr. Simona Rossi; Dr. John P. Norvell; Dr. Jennifer Batisti
Room 206-208

4:40 pm Academic Debates – Debate 1: Biopsy vs. Noninvasive Assessment of NASH PRO: This Patient Should Have a Liver Biopsy
Dr. Matthew Klinge; Dr. Akshata Moghe
Room 206-208

Poster: 0382 HBsAg Clearance in Patients with Chronic Hepatitis B: Durability and Recurrence Factors
Yali Wu; Nan Geng; Yali Liu; Junfeng Lu; Zhenhuan Cao; Yi Jin; Lina Ma; Chengli Shen; Prof. Xinyue Chen

Poster: 0482: Alcohol and Opioid Use Disorder Treatments in Veterans with Chronic Liver Disease
Dr. Shari S. Rogal; Dr. Ada Youk; Hongwei Zhang; Dr. Walid Gellad; Dr. Michael J. Fine; Dr. Chester B. Good; Dr. Jane Liebschutz; Dr. Kevin Kraemer

Poster: 0503 Implementation Strategies Associated with Increased HCV Treatment: An Applied Use of Comparative Configurational Methods
Vera Yakovchenko; Dr. Shari S Rogal; Edward J. Miech; Ms. Rachel Gonzalez; Dr. Angela Park; Dr. Maggie Chartier; Dr. David Ross; Matthew Chinman; Dr. Timothy R Morgan

Poster: 0574 Acute Viral Hepatitis: Is Epidemiology and Prognosis Changing in Industrialized Countries?
Dr. Jordi Llaneras; Dr. Mar Riveiro Barciela; Dr. Paula Suanzes; Dr. Elisabeth Mena; Dr. Sheila Romero; Dr. Meritxell Ventura-Cots; Dr. Francesc Sanpedro; Dr. Rafael Esteban; Dr. Maria Buti

Poster: 0720 Environmental Toxicant Vinyl Chloride Causes Hepatic Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Mice
Anna Lang, Liya Chen, Dr. Matthew C. Cave, Dr. Juliane Ingeborg Beier

Poster: 0804 Sarcopenia Predicts Mortality after Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt Placement
Dr. Akshata Moghe; Josh Anderson; Yicheng Tang; Dr. Michael A. Dunn; Dr. Shahid M. Malik; Dr. Vinay Sundaram

Saturday – November 10, 2018
6:30 am: EMW 16: Mitochondrial Hepatopathies
Dr. Alexander G. Miethke; Dr. James E. Squires
Room TBA

8:00 am: Postgraduate Course – Matrix Biology and the Liver: Beyond Collagen and Fibrosis – Postgraduate Course Chair
Dr. Gavin Arteel; Dr. Rebecca Wells
Room 24-25

8:40 am: Session I: Postgraduate Course: What is the Matrix of the Liver and Who Makes It? – “The Liver Matrisome and Acute Phase Responses”
Dr. Gavin Arteel
Room 24-25

Poster: 0841 LPS Induces HMGB1 Release from Hepatocytes Via Both TLR4 and Caspase-11/Gasdermin D(GSDMD) Signalings
Dr. Wenbo Li; Dr. Timothy R. Billiar; Prof. Meihong Deng; Dr. Melanie J. Scott; Dr. Ben Lu; Dr. Patricia Loughran

Poster: 0860 Post-Transplant Hepatoblastoma Recurrence Associates with Novel Mutations, Higher Tumor Mutational Burden, and Tumor-Infiltrating CD8 Cells
Dr. Mylarappa Ningappa; Dr. Sarangarajan Ranganathan; Dr. Brandon W Higgs; Dr. Chethan Ashokkumar; Catherine Scott; Dr. Rakesh K. Sindhi

Poster: 0939 K-Means Algorithm-Assisted Clustering of Patients and Survival Analysis, Based on mRNA Expressivity in the Tumor Microenvironment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC)
Dr. Sunyoung Lee; Dr. Seongwon Lee; Ms. Shinyoung Park; Dr. Jin Cheon Kim; Dr. Andrew Baird; Ms. Jillian Dolan

Poster: 1158 Evaluation of Baseline Donor and Longitudinal Recipient Hepatic Histology for Evolution of Steatosis and Fibrosis
Dr. Oren Shaked; Dr. Anthony J. Demetris; Bao-Li Loza; Dr. Josh Levitsky; Prof. Sandy Feng; Dr. Jeffrey D. Punch; Dr. Jorge D. Reyes; Dr. Goran Klintmalm; Dr. Whitney E. Jackson; Michele DesMarais; Dr. Peter Sayre; Dr. Abraham Shaked; Dr. K Rajender Reddy

Poster: 1166 Moderate Creatinine Elevation (1.5-2.5 mg/dl) at the Time of Liver Transplantation Markedly Reduces End-Stage Renal Failure-Free Survival in Patients with NAFLD: Need for Revised Criteria for Combined Liver-Kidney Transplantation
Dr. Carlos Fernandez-Carrillo; Yaming Li; Dr. Meritxell Ventura-Cots; Dr. Josepmaria Argemi; Dr. Naudia L Jonassaint; Dr. Amit D. Tevar; Prof. Sundaram Hariharan; Dr. Christopher Hughes; Dr. Abhinav Humar; Dr. Michele Molinari; Dr. Douglas Landsittel; Dr. Ramon Bataller

Poster: 1174 Sarcopenia As a Tool to Predict Post-Liver Transplant (LT) Mortality in the Acutely Ill LT Candidate
Ms. Myra Ahmad; Dr. Selena Kuo; Dr. Michael A. Dunn; Dr. Aldo J. Montano-Loza; Dr. Elizabeth J. Carey; Shezhang Lin; Dr. Akshata Moghe; Dr. Hui Wei Chen; Dr. Maryam Ebadi; Markus Sommer; Cynthia Tang; Dr. Jennifer Cindy Lai

Poster: 1187 Frailty Tested By Gait Speed Is a Risk Factor for Liver Transplant Respiratory Complications
Dr. Tariq I. Salim; Ms. Leah C. Nestlerode; Ms. Erin L. Lucatorto; Ms. Tamara L. Wasserman; Dr. Hassieb A. Din; Yaming Li; Dr. Douglas Landsittel; Dr. Amit D. Tevar; Dr. Jonas T. Johnson; Dr. Michael A. Dunn

Sunday – November 11, 2018
6:30 am: Early Morning Workshops – EMW20 – Mechanisms of Alcohol-Induced Liver Injury and Targets for New Therapies
Dr. Gavin Arteel; Dr. Ramon Bataller
Room TBA

8:30 am: Parallel 6: Metabolic Control of Hepatocellular Injury – Moderator
Dr. Kari Nejak-Boweb; Dr. Mark McNiven
Room 312-314

9:00 am: 0005 Prioritizing Status 1 and Pediatric Candidates for Pediatric Deceased Donor Livers through Increased National Sharing
Dr. Douglas Mogul; Dr. Emily J. Rothbaum Perito; Dr. Evelyn K. Hsu; Dr. George V. Mazariegos; Dr. Douglas Vanderwerken; Dr. Sommer Gentry
Hall D

9:15 am: 0006 A Longitudinal Cohort Study on Health Related Quality of Life and Cognitive Functioning in Pediatric Liver Transplant Recipients during a 10 Year Time Span
Daniella Ohnemus; Katie Neighbors; Robert S Venick; Dr. John C. Bucuvalas; Dr. Shikha Sundaram; Dr. Vicky Lee Ng; Walter Andrews; Dr. Yumirle Padron Turmelle; Dr. George V. Mazariego; Lisa Sorensen; Dr. Estella M. Alonso; Studies of Pediatric Liver Transplantation, Hall D

9:15 am: 0064 Hepatocyte-Specific β-Catenin Deletion during Severe Liver Injury Provokes Cholangiocytes to Differentiate into Regenerative Hepatocytes
Jacquelyn Russell; Hirohisa Okabe; Mr. Sucha Singh; Minakshi Poddar; Dr. Satdarshan (Paul) Monga
Room 312-314

10:45 am: 0086 Unexpected Long-Lasting IgM Positivity: Is Anti-HEV IgM the Best Marker for Acute Hepatitis E Diagnosis?
Dr. Mar Riveiro Barciela; Dr. Ana Barreira; Dr. Jordi Llaneras; Dr. Elisabeth Mena; Dr. Sheila Romero; Dr. Meritxell Ventura-Cots; Dr. Francesc Sanpedro; Ariadna Rando; Francisco Rodríguez-Frías; Prof. Rafael Esteban-Mur; Dr. Maria Buti
Room 154-156


2:15 pm: 0122 Validity of MELD-Sarcopenia Score for a Prediction of Waitlist Mortality in Patients Listed for Liver Transplant. From the Fitness, Life Enhancement, and Exercise in Liver Transplantation (FLEXIT) Consortium
Dr. Maryam Ebadi; Dr. Jennifer Cindy Lai; Dr. Elizabeth J. Carey; Dr. Michael A. Dunn; Dr. Srinivasan Dasarathy; Dr. Matthew R. Kappus; Dr. Aldo J. Montano-Loza
Room 153-155

2:45 pm: 0136 Neurocognitive Outcomes in Older Children with Biliary Atresia and Native Liver: Results from the Childhood Liver Disease Research Network (ChiLDReN) Study
Dr. James E. Squires; Lisa Sorensen; Dr. Emily M. Fredericks; Dr. Vicky Lee Ng; Kieran Hawthorne; Lisa Henn; Prof. Karen F. Murray; Dr. Kathleen M. Loomes; Dr. Saul J. Karpen; Laurel Cavallo; Jean Pappas Molleston; Dr. Jorge A. Bezerra; Prof. Philip Rosenthal; Dr. Robert H. Squires; Kasper S. Wang; Prof. Kathleen B. Schwarz; Dr. Stephen L Guthery; Dr. Binita M. Kamath; Dr. Estella M. Alonso; Dr. John C Magee; Dr. Ronald J Sokol; Childhood Liver Disease Research Network (ChiLDReN)
Room 312-314

3:00 pm: 0125 Renal-Sparing Immunosuppression at Time of Transplant Does Not Improve Post-Transplant Renal Outcomes
Dr. Pratima Sharma; Dr. Yihan Sun; Dr. Joslyn Neal; Dr. Jennifer Erley; Dr. James Shen; Dr. Sarah Tischer; Dr. Christopher J. Sonnenday; and Prof. Jeong Park
Room 153-155

3:00 pm: 0137 Prognostic Value of Serum Bile Acids after Kasai Portoenterostomy in Biliary Atresia
Sanjiv Harpavat; Dr. James E. Heubi; Dr. Saul J. Karpen; Dr. Vicky Lee Ng; Dr. Kenneth David Reginald Setchell; Dr. Benjamin L. Shneider; Dr. Estella M. Alonso; Dr. Jorge A. Bezerra; Dr. Stephen L Guthery; Dr. Kathleen M. Loomes; Dr. John C Magee; Jean Pappas Molleston; Prof. Karen F. Murray; Prof. Philip Rosenthal; Dr. Averell H. Sherker; Dr. Robert H. Squires; Kasper S. Wang; Dr. Ronald J Sokol; the Childhood Liver Disease Research Network (ChiLDReN)
Room 312-314

4:30 pm: Parallel 25: Health Economics and Patient Centered Outcomes – Moderator
Dr. Michael Dunn; Dr. Sammy Saab
Room 306-308

4:45 pm: 0182 Clinical Outcomes of Oral Vancomycin Therapy for Children with Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis in the Pediatric PSC Consortium
Dr. Mark Deneau; Reham Abdou; Mansi Amin; Achiya Z Amir; Marcus Auth; Dr. Annemarie Broderick; Albert Chan; Matthew DiGuglielmo; Wael El-Matary; Dr. Mounif El-Youssef; Federica Ferrari; Dr. Katryn Furuya; Frederic Gottrand; Dr. Nitika Arora Gupta; Matjaz Homan; Dr. M. Kyle Jensen; Dr. Binita M. Kamath; Kyung Mo Kim; Kaija-Leena Kolho; Anastasia Konidari; Bart Koot; Raffaele Iorio; Henry C. Lin; Dr. Cara Lynn Mack; Dr. Mercedes Martinez; Parvathi Mohan; Sirish Kumar Palle; Alexandra Papadopoulou; Dr. Emily J. Rothbaum Perito; Dr. Amanda Ricciuto; Lawrence Saubermann; Pushpa Sathya; Dr. Uzma Shah; Eyal Shteyer; Vratislav Smolka; Prof. Atsushi Tanaka; Dr. Pamela L. Valentino; Raghu Varier; Dr. Veena L. Venkat; Bernadette Vitola; Dr. Miriam B. Vos; Marek Woynarowski; Dr. Jason Y K Yap; Tamir A. Miloh
Room 312-314


5:45 pm: 0162 Serial Meld Values over 90 Days after Admission for Alcohol-Associated Hepatitis Predict the Risk of Short-Term Mortality
Prof. Juan G. Abraldes; Dr. Meritxell Ventura-Cots; Dr. Guadalupe Garcia-Tsao; Prof. Joan Genesca; Dr. Francisco J. Bosques; Dr. Robert S. Brown Jr.; Dr. Samuel Ho; Dr. Philippe Mathurin; Prof. Alexandre Louvet; Dr. Debbie L. Shawcross; Victor Vargas; Dr. Elizabeth C. Verna; Dr. Michael R. Lucey; Dr. Ramon Bataller
Room 154-156

Poster: 1372 High Levels of Lipoprotein X and Z Distinguish Alcoholic Hepatitis from Other Forms of Liver Diseases
Dr. Z. Gordon Jiang; Dr. Meritxell Ventura-Cots; Irina Shalaurova; Dr. Maria Camila Perez-Matos; Ms. Stephanie Tran; Prof. Juan G. Abraldes; Dr. Michael R. Lucey; Dr. Margery Connelly; Michelle Lai; James D. Otvos; Dr. Ramon Bataller

Poster: 1376 Plasma Proteomics Reveals a Unique Signature of Alcoholic Hepatitis and Identifies Biomarkers of Response to Prednisolone
Dr. Jon Jacobs; Mrs. Marina Gritsenko; Dr. Komal Kedia; Dr. Zhang-Xu Liu; Dr. Trina Norden-Krichmar; Dr. Ramon Bataller;Dr. Timothy R Morgan; Southern California Alcoholic Hepatitis Consortium

Poster: 1383 Mean Arterial Pressure at Admission Predicts Mortality in Patients with Alcoholic Hepatitis Independently of Meld
Dr. Meritxell Ventura-Cots; Dr. Carlos Fernandez-Carrillo; Dr. Josepmaria Argemi; Prof. Juan G. Abraldes; Dr. Francisco J. Bosques; Dr. Robert S. Brown Jr.; Dr. Guadalupe Garcia-Tsao; Prof. Joan Genesco; Dr. Samuel Ho; Dr. Philippe Mathurin; Prof. Alexandre Louvet; Dr. Michael R. Lucey; Dr. Debbie L. Shawcross; Victor Vargas; Dr. Elizabeth C. Verna; Dr. Ramon Bataller; The InTeam Study group

Poster: 1388 Hepatocyte-Specific Deletion of CD73 Disrupts Stress Kinase Signaling and Promotes Spontaneous and Alcohol-Induced Liver Injury in Male Mice
Karel Alcedo; Monea Richardson; Helen H Willcockson; Dr. Kevin Greene; Dr. Veronica L. Massey; Dr. Ramon Bataller; Dr. Natasha T Snider

Poster: 1526 Loss of Beta-Catenin Increases Cholestatic Liver Injury in the Mdr2 KO Mouse
Dr. Tirthadipa Pradhan-Sundd, Harvinder Saggi, Dr. Rong Zhang, Dr. Ravi Vats, Pamela Cornuet, Karis Kosar, Sydney Green, Mr. Sucha Singh, Dr. Marc Abrams; Dr. Kari Nejak-Bowen

Poster: 1533 Liver-Specific Beta-Catenin Knockout Mice Are Protected from Lithocholic Acid-Induced Cholestasis
Dr. Rong Zhang; Dr. Pengcheng Wang; Pamela Cornuet; Dr. Xiaochao Ma; Dr. Kari Nejak-Bowen

Poster: 1566 Risk of Cardiovascular Disease Events after HCV Treatment: Results from Erchives
Prof. Adeel Ajwad Butt; Mr. Peng Yan; Prof. Ashfaq Shuaib; Prof. Abdul-Badi Abou-Samra; Dr. Obaid Shakil Shaikh; Dr. Matthew S Freiberg; ERCHIVES

Poster: 1575 Trends in Treatment Uptake and Provider Specialty for HCV Infection in the VA Healthcare System in the Era of Directly Acting Antiviral Agents: An Erchives Study
Prof. Adeel Ajwad Butt; Mr. Peng Yan; Dr. Vincent Lo Re III; Dr. Obaid Shakil Shaikh, ERCHIVES

Poster: 1826 Pharmacological Inhibition of Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR) Prevents and Reverses Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) Progression in a Murine Fast-Food Diet Model
Bharat Bhushan; Swati Banerjee; Shirish Paranjpe; George K. Michalopoulos

Poster: 1828 Investigating Hepatoblastoma Tumorigenesis in a Murine Model Driven By YAP and β-Catenin
Laura Molina; Qian Min; Dr. Junyan Tao; Dr. Sarangarajan Ranganathan; Dr. Satdarshan (Paul) Monga

Poster: 1834 Variability in Diagnostic and Therapeutic Strategies for Pediatric Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis between Centers in the Pediatric PSC Consortium
Dr. Mark Deneau; Dr. Mansi Amin; Achiya Z Amir; Marcus Auth; Dr. Annemarie Broderick; Matthew DiGuglielmo; Dr. Mounif El-Youssef; Federica Ferrari; Dr. Katryn Furuya; Frederic Gottrand; Dr. Nitika Arora Gupta; Matjaz Homan; Dr. Binita M. Kamath; Kyung Mo Kim; Kaija-Leena Kolho; Bart Koot; Raffaele Iorio; Henry C. Lin; Dr. Cara Lynn Mack; Tamir A. Miloh; Dr. Mercedes Martinez; Sirish Kumar Palle; Dr. Amanda Ricciuto; Eyal Shteyer; Vratislav Smolka; Prof. Atsushi Tanaka; Dr. Pamela L. Valentino; Raghu Varier; Dr. Veena L. Venkat; Bernadette Vitola; Marek Woynarowski; Dr. Jason Y K Yap; Dr. M. Kyle Jensen

Poster: 1835 Circulating Interleukin 10 (IL10) and MIP-3alpha (CCL20) Segregates Liver Disease from Transient Elevation of Liver Enzymes in a Discovery Cohort of Pediatric Ulcerative Colitis – Analysis from the Protect Study.
Dr. Simon Lam; Dr. James E. Squires; Dr. Michael J. Rosen; Weizhe Su; Lin Fei; Dr. Wujuan Zhang; Dr. Kenneth David Reginald Setchell; Dr. Lee A Denson; Dr. Jeffery S. Hyams; Dr. Alexander G. Miethke

Monday – November 12, 2018
8:00 am: Late-Breaking Abstract: Novel Biomarkers in Alcoholic Hepatitis: Analysis of the Plasma Peptidome/ Degradome
Christine E Dolin; Daniel W Wilkey; Dr. Vatsalya Vatsalya; Dr. Sudhir Srivastava; Dr. Craig J McClain; Dr. Shesh N Rai; Dr. Michael L Merchant; Dr. Gavin E Arteel
Room TBA

8:30 am: Parallel 27: Liver Fibrogenesis and Matrix Biology – Moderator
Dr. Gavin Arteel; Dr. Natalie Torok
Room 214-216

8:30 am: 0015 – Presidential Plenary - Predictors of Outcome in Children with Biliary Atresia Surviving with Native Liver at Two Years of Age
Dr. Veena L. Venkat; Dr. Vicky Lee Ng; Dr. John C Magee; Wen Ye; Kieran Hawthorne; Sanjiv Harpavat; Prof. Karen F. Murray; Kasper S. Wang; Jean Pappas Molleston; Henry C. Lin; Lee Bass; Nisreen Soufi; Dr. Cara Lynn Mack; Dr. Jorge A. Bezerra; Dr. Stephen L Guthery; Dr. Averell H. Sherker; Prof. Philip Rosenthal; Dr. Ronald J Sokol; Dr. Saul J. Karpen; and Childhood Liver Disease Research Network (ChiLDReN)

10:30 am: 0235 Biliary Stricture Management and Outcomes Post-Liver Transplantation in Children: A Report from Studies of Pediatric Liver Transplantation (SPLIT)
Dr. Pamela L. Valentino; Dr. Vicky Lee Ng; Dr. John C. Bucuvalas; Dr. Amy Feldman; Regino P Gonzalez-Peralta; Dr. Nitika Arora Gupta; Tamir A. Miloh; Dr. Saeed Mohammad; Dr. Erika Pace; Dr. Shikha Sundaram; Dr. Nada A. Yazigi; Dr. Kyle Soltys; Studies of Pediatric Liver Transplantation (SPLIT)
Room 312-314


10:30 am: 0217 Frailty Predicts Waitlist Mortality Independent of Ascites and Hepatic Encephalopathy: From the Multi-Center Functional Assessment in Liver Transplantation (FrAILT) Study
Dr. Jennifer Cindy Lai; Dr. Robert S. Rahimi; Dr. Elizabeth C. Verna; Dr. Matthew R. Kappus; Dr. Michael A. Dunn; Dr. Michael Volk; Andres Duarte-Rojo; Dr. Daniel R. Ganger; Dr. Mara A. McAdams-DeMarco; Dr. Jacqueline G. O'Leary; Dr. Christine Haugen; Jennifer L. Dodge; Dr. Daniela Ladner; Dr. Dorry Segev; Multicenter Functional Assessment in Liver Transplantation (FrAILT) Study
Room 206-208

11:15 am: 0238 Influence of Donor Age on Outcomes after Pediatric Liver Transplantation: Lessons Learnt from SPLIT
Dr. Vicky Lee Ng; Dr. George V. Mazariegos; Dr. Simon P. Horslen; Dr. Sue V. McDiarmid; Jinson Erinjeri; Dr. Ravinder Anand; The SPLIT Research Group
Room 312-314

11:30 am: 0221 Reduced Serum Sphingolipids Constitute a Molecular Signature of Malnutrition in Hospitalized Patients with Decompensated Cirrhosis
Dr. Vikrant Rachakonda; Dr. Jaideep Behari
Room 206-208

12:15 pm: 0024 – Presidential Plenary – Epigenetic Dysregulation of HNF4a-Dependent Transcriptome in Alcoholic Hepatitis
Dr. Josepmaria Argemi; Dr. Veronica L. Massey; Dr. Joaquin Cabezas3; Dr. Gemma Odena; Mr. Juan Jose Lozano; Dr. Stephen R Atkinson; Prof. Karoline Lackner; Prof. Peter Stärkel; Prof. Alexandre Louvet; Mr. Laurent Dubuquoy; Constatino Fondevila; Dr. Sheng Cao; Dr. Juan Pablo Arab; Dr. Meritxell Ventura-Cots; Dr. Jose Altamirano; Juan Caballeria; Prof. Mark R Thursz; Prof. Vijay Shah; Pau Sancho-Bru; Dr. Philippe Mathurin; Prof. Jelena Mann; Dr. Ramon Bataller
Room 214-216

2:00 pm: Parallel 36A: Clinical Hepatology Potpourri – Moderator
Dr. Gavin Arteel; Dr. Mark Czaja
Room 154-156

2:15 pm: 2379 Pharmacokinetics, Safety, and Efficacy of Glecaprevir/Pibrentasvir in Pediatric Patients with Genotypes 1-6 Chronic HCV Infection: Part 1 of the Dora Study
Dr. Maureen M. Jonas; Dr. Robert H. Squires; Dr. Susan Rhee Dr. Chih-Wei Lin Dr. Kazuhiko Bessho; Dr. Cornelia Feiterna-Sperling; Loreto Hierro; Deirdre A. Kelly; Dr. Simon C. Ling; Dr. Tatiana Strokova; Dr. Antonio Del Valle-Segarra; Dr. Li Liu; Dr. Teresa (Iok Chan) Ng; Dr. Ariel Porcalla; Dr. Margaret Burroughs; Prof. Etienne M. Sokal
Room 154-156

3:00 pm: 0251 Transplanting HCV-Infected Livers into Uninfected Recipients Is a Cost-Effective Strategy
Dr. Emily Bethea; Dr. Sumeyye Samur Samur; Dr. Fasiha Kanwal; Dr. Mark S Roberts; Dr. Norah Terrault; Dr. Raymond T. Chung; Prof. Jag Chhatwal; Dr. Chin Hur
Room 153-155

3:00 pm: 0256 B-Catenin and mTOR Signaling in Liver Pathophysiology: Novel Interactions and Implications
Dr. Satdarshan (Paul) Monga; Dr. Junyan Tao; Adeola Michael
Room 22-23

Poster: 2008 Opioid Prescribing to Patients with Chronic Liver Disease Is Associated with New Hepatic Decompensation
Dr. Shari S. Rogal; Ms. Theresa Gmelin; Dr. Jane Liebschutz; Dr. Michael J. Fine; Dr. Naudia L Jonassaint; Dr. Chester B. Good; Dr. Walid Gellad

Poster: 2098 Do Non-Invasive Biomarkers Predict Advanced Fibrosis in HBV/HIV Co-Infected Adults?
Dr. Richard K. Sterling; Dr. Wendy C King; Dr. Abdus Wahed; Dr. David Kleiner; Mandana Khalili; Dr. Mark S. Sulkowski; Dr. Mamta K. Jain; Dr. Mauricio Lisker-Melman; Dr. Raymond T. Chung; Dr. David KH Wong; Dr. Marc G. Ghany

Poster: 2114 Prevalence of Hepatitis B e Antigen Varies By Age, Race and Genotype: Data from a Large North American Cohort of Adults and Children in the Hepatitis B Research Network (HBRN)
Dr. Adrian M Di Bisceglie; Dr. Mauricio Lisker-Melman; Dr. Wendy C King; Mandana Khalili; Dr. Steve Belle; Dr. Kyong-Mi Chang; Dr. Stewart Cooper; Dr. Jordan J. Feld; Dr. Marc G. Ghany; Prof. Harry L. A. Janssen; Dr. Daryl Lau; Dr. William M. Lee; Dr. Simon C. Ling; Dr. Lewis R. Roberts; Prof. Philip Rosenthal; Prof. Kathleen B. Schwarz; Dr. Obaid Shakil Shaikh; Dr. Richard K. Sterling; Dr. Jeffrey H Teckman; Dr. Norah Terrault; Dr. Edward Doo; Dr. Jay H. Hoofnagle; Hepatitis B Research Network (HBRN)

Poster: 2202 Glypican 3 (GPC3) Modulates p-Ezrin Dependent Hippo Pathway Via Cross Talking with HGF/c-Met Axis in Hepatocytes and Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC)
Dr. Yuhua Xue; Dr. Wendy M. Mars; Mr. William Bowen1, Anne Orr; John Stoops; George K. Michalopoulos

Poster: 2331 Non-Invasive Evaluation of Liver Steatosis: An Ultrasonomics Approach
Dr. Francesco Faita; Dr. Cinzia Avigo; Dr. Nicole Di Lascio; Dr. Antonio Salvati; Dr. Nicola Martini; Dr. Monica Ragucci; Dr. Gabriele Ricco; Dr. Serena Monti; Dr. Anna Prinster; Prof. Dante Chiappino; Dr. Marcello Mancini; Prof. Lorenzo Ghiadoni; Prof. Ferruccio Bonino; Prof. Maurizia R. Brunetto