2024 Annual Update in Medical Hepatology

Every year, the UPMC Center for Liver Diseases holds an educational CME program to learn more about current trends, management techniques, new innovations, and research to treat a full range of liver conditions.

During this year’s conference, participants learned about advancements in non-alcoholic and alcoholic liver disease treatments, barriers to liver transplantation and living-donor liver transplantation, and more from our liver disease experts.

View the presentations here.

Session 1: Autoimmune Liver Diseases

Topics in this session include:

• Case #1 Introduction
• Update on Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis
• Update on PBC and Overlap Syndromes
• Gut Microbiome and Autoimmune Liver Disease

Session 2: Steatotic and Viral Liver Disease

Topics in this session include:

• Case #2 Introduction
• Update on Evaluation and Management of Alcohol-associated Liver Disease
• Update on Metabolic-Dysfunction Associated Steatotic Liver Disease

Breakout #1: Helping Patients Overcome Barriers to Liver Transplantation

Breakout #2: Lifestyle Modification for the Management of Liver Disease

Session 3: Cirrhosis and Its Complications

Topics in this session include:

• Case #3 Introduction
• Management of the Difficult Variceal Hemorrhage
• Advances in the Management of Hepatorenal Syndrome
• Managing Quality of Life in Patients with Advanced Cirrhosis

Session 4: Liver Transplantation

Topics in this session include:

• Case #4 Introduction
• Advances in Deceased Donor Liver Transplantation
• Innovations in Live Donor Liver Transplantation