Scientific Programme

DAY 1 – 16th July 2009 (Thursday)

0800-0900 hrs REGISTRATION
0900-1030 hrs Opening Ceremony
1030-1100 hrs Coffee Break (Tour of exhibition booths)

1100-1200 hrs

6th MLF Lecture & Citation

“A Surgical Journey of Five Decades”
JC Mehta

1200-1240 hrs Plenary I : Hepatitis B – Viral characteristics
a predictor of HCC?”
Nancy Leung
1240-1400 hrs Lunch Symposium
(Roche Malaysia)

1400-1530 hrs

Symposium 1 : Interventional Hepatology

1. Bile duct injuries : Jonathan Fawcett
2. Failed ERCP : what next – Assaad Soweid
3. NOTES in HPB disease : Priya Jamidar
4. New toys in endoscopy : Ram Chuttani

1530-1600 hrs Tea Break

1600-1700 hrs

Round Table Discussion : Pancreatic Cancer
Clinical evaluation : Assaad Soweid
Radiology : John Harper
Endoscopy : Paul Kortan
Surgical : Jonathan Fawcett

DAY 2 – 17th July 2009 (Friday)

0830-0910 hrs Plenary 2 - “Emerging concepts in the treatment of chronic hepatitis B”
Richard Guan

0910-1030 hrs

Symposium 2 : Controversies in Hepatitis B
1. Overcoming the challenges of viral resistance : Stephen Locarnini
2. Resurrection of HBV – acute or flare? : Deepak Amarapurkar
3. Is two better than one? : Richard Guan

1030-1100 hrs Coffee Break
1100-1140 hrs Plenary 3 : HPB disease – tissue engineering from bench to bed

Jonathan Fawcett
1140-1240 hrs
Free Papers
(Judges Locarnini, Fawcett, Richard Guan, MJ Alexander, Lampertico)
1240-1400 hrs Lunch Symposium
Bristol-Myers Squibb

1400-1500 hrs

DEBATE : Cystic lesions of the pancreas - Straight to surgery?
For : Ryan Ponnudura &, Ram Chuttani
Against : Jonathan Fawcett & Russell Strong

1500 – 1630 hrs

Special ASIAHEP Forum – Case Debates with the Experts : Applying The Practice Guidelines on the Management of Chronic Hepatitis B Infection (Usin g Activote System)

1630-1700 hrs Tea Break

DAY 3 – 18th July 2009 (Saturday)

0830-0910 hrs Plenary 4 : Secondary liver tumours – The beginning of the end
Harjit Singh

0910-1030 hrs

Symposium 3 : Autoimmune Disease
1. Autoimmune Hepatitis : Chow Wan Cheng
2. Autoimmune Pancreatitis : Ryan Ponnudurai
3. Role of histology in autoimmune disease : R. Pathmananthan

1030-1100 hrs Coffee Break

1100-1210 hrs

Symposium 4 : Critical Care in Hepatology
1. Asian perspectives in liver failure : Tan Soek Siam
2. Acute variceal bleeding : Jose Sollano
3. Post transplant complications : Jonathan Fawcett

1210-1250 hrs Plenary 5 : Living Related Liver Transplant – Have we gone too far?
Russell Strong
1250-1400 hrs Lunch Symposium
GlaxoSmithKline
1400-1440 hrs Plenary 6 : Hepatitis Vaccines – 30 years on
Nor Shahidah Khairullah

1440-1530 hrs

Symposium 5 : Dilemmas in Hepatitis C
1. HCV genotype – does it really matter? : Stephen Locarnini
2. HCV in Renal Disease : Edward Gane
3. Managing the side effects of treatment : MJ Alexander

1530-1600 hrs Tea Break
1900-2200 hrs MLF’S FUNDRAISING CHARITY DINNER

DAY 4 - 19th July 2009 (Sunday)

0900-0940 hrs

Symposium 6 : Infection and the Liver
1. Liver Abscess : Manisekar Subramaniam
2. Oriental Cholangitis : Krishnan Raman
3. Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis : Anuchit Chuttaputti

1030 – 1050 hrs Coffee Break

1050 – 1300 hrs
1050 – 1110 hrs
1110 – 1130 hrs
1130 - 1150 hrs
1150 – 1210 hrs
1210 – 1230 hrs
1230 – 1300 hrs

Symposium 7 : Liver Potpourri
Abnormal LFTs – a guide to management : Muhd Radzi Abu Hassan
Viral hepatitis – diagnostic tools : Nor Shahidah Khairullah
Viral hepatitis – indications for treatment : Laurentius Lesmana
Drug induced liver disease : L.V. Sanker
Fatty liver – identifying those at risk : Robert Ding
Problematic gallstones - Clinical approach : Ahmad Shukri

1400-1700 hrs "Hepatitis Day" Convenor: Ahmad Shukri B. Dato' Md Salleh