
| 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” |
| 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 |
| 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 |