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CONGRESS 2015

08:30 Introduction: Treatment of hepatitis C: towards the eradication? - Patrick MARCELLIN (France) Download

08:40 - 09:00 State of the art lecture
Chairman:
Tarik ASSELAH (France) Download

Treatment of hepatitis C today and tomorrow - Antonio CRAXI (Italy) Download

09:00 - 10:00 How to optimize current therapy of G1 patients
Chairs :
Nezam AFDHAL (USA) Stanislas POL (France)

09:00 PEG IFN based therapy with 2nd wave DAAs - Donald JENSEN (USA) Download

09:15 Shortened therapy with IFN-based therapy - Thomas BERG (Germany) Download

09:30 Predictors of response to IFN-based therapy - Lawrence SERFATY (France) Download

09:45 Round table discussion

10:00 - 10:20 Coffee break

10:20 - 11:20 How to optimize current therapy of non G1 patients
Chairs :
Jake LIANG (USA) Stefan ZEUZEM (Germany)

10:20 Genotype 2, what’s new? - Marc BOURLIERE (France) Download

10:35 Why genotype 3 is difficult to cure? - Graham FOSTER (UK) Download

10:50 Genotype 4, finally cured? - Imam WAKED (Egypt) Download

11:05 Round table discussion

11:20 - 12:30 How to improve access to therapy?
Chairs :
Massimo COLOMBO (Italy) Download Michael FRIED (USA) Download Patrick MARCELLIN (France)

Victor DE LEDINGHEN (France) Download Gamal ESMAT (Egypt) Download Rafael ESTEBAN (Spain) Download Robert FLISIAK (Poland) Download Vasily ISAKOV (Russia) Download Michael MANNS (Germany) Download Raymundo PARANA (Brazil) Download

12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Workshops

Room 253

The long term impact of treatment on the outcome of liver disease

Chairs: Jia-Horng KAO (Taiwan) Download Nurdan TOZUN (Turkey) Download

Room 241

First line therapy of hepatitis B: interferon or analogues?

Chairs: Rafael ESTEBAN (Spain) Download Cihan YURDAYDIN (Turkey) Download

Room 242B

Clinical applications of HBsAg quantification

Chairs: Philippe HALFON (France) Download Michelle MARTINOT-PEIGNOUX (France) Download Philippe SOGNI (France) Download

Room 242A

Staging of fibrosis: liver biopsy or indirect markers?

Chairs: Pierre BEDOSSA (France) Download Victor DE LEDINGHEN (France) Download

Room 252B

Treatment of HCV cirrhosis and transplanted patients

Chairs: Rajiv JALAN (UK) Didier SAMUEL (France) Download Dominique VALLA (France)

Room 251

HIV-HCV coinfections

Chairs: Juergen ROCKSTROH (Germany) Download Mark SULKOWSKI (USA) Download

Room 252A

Interferon ou analogue ? (French speaking lunch workshop)

Chairs: Denis OUZAN (France) Download Christian TREPO (France) Download Jean-Pierre ZARSKI (France) Download

Room 243

Faut-il traiter les immunotolérants et les porteurs inactifs ? (French speaking lunch workshop)

Chairs: Mustapha BENAZZOUZ (Morocco) Download Nathalie BOYER (France) Jean-François David CADRANEL (France) Download Adriana POPESCU (Romania) Download

14:30 - 15:35 Special populations
Chairs :
Maria BUTI (Spain) François DURAND (France)

14:30 Patients with comorbidities - Savino BRUNO (Italy) Download

14:45 DAAs and transplant patients - Didier SAMUEL (France) Download

15:00 HIV co-infected patients - Juergen ROCKSTROH (Germany) Download

15:15 Round table discussion

15:35 - 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 - 16:50 New therapeutic strategies
Chairs :
Ira JACOBSON (USA) Michael MANNS (Germany)

16:00 INF-free therapy in naïve patients - Tarik ASSELAH (France) Download

16:15 INF-free therapy in experienced patients - David NELSON (USA) Download

16:30 Round table discussion

16:50 - 17:25 Controversy: Cure of HCV-related liver disease?
Chairman:
Eugene SCHIFF (USA)

16:50 No - Mitchell SHIFFMAN (USA) Download

17:00 Yes - Yves BENHAMOU (France) Download

17:10 Discussion

17:25 Hepatitis C: A public health priority - Bernard KOUCHNER (France)

17:40 Take home messages - Tarik ASSELAH (France) Download

17:50 Conclusion - Patrick MARCELLIN (France) Download

19:30 Congress dinner

08:30 Introduction: is HBV controlled? - Patrick MARCELLIN (France)

08:40 - 10:00 The control of HBV related liver disease
Chairs :
Laurent CASTERA (France) Fabien ZOULIM (France)

08:40 Cirrhosis reversibility: who and why? - Pierre BEDOSSA (France) Download

08:55 HBsAg quantification to manage patients - Michelle MARTINOT-PEIGNOUX (France) Download

09:10 What have we learned from HBV clinical cohorts? - Jia-Horng KAO (Taiwan) Download

09:30 Round table discussion

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 - 12:00 Optimal therapy of chronic hepatitis B
Chairs :
Adrian GADANO (Argentina) Jidong JIA (China)

10:30 How do I treat my HBeAg-positive patients? - Georgios PAPATHEODORIDIS (Greece) Download

10:50 How do I treat my HBeAg-negative patients? - Pietro LAMPERTICO (Italy) Download

11:10 HBV: perspectives for treatment - Jorg PETERSEN (Germany) Download

11:30 Round table discussion

12:00 - 12:30 State of the art lecture
Chairman:
Tarik ASSELAH (France)

12:00 HBV and the immune response - Carlo FERRARI (Italy) Download

12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Workshops

Room 242A

How to optimize treatment in G1 naive patients?

Chairs: Antonio CRAXI (Italy) Raluca PAIS (France) Download Vlad RATZIU (France) Anca STREINU-CERCEL (Romania) Download

Room 251

HCV eradication with DAAs?

Chairs: Emilie ESTRABAUD (France) Download Michael FRIED (USA) Download Massimo LEVRERO (France) Download

Room 252B

How to manage relapsers and non-responders to PEG IFN + RBV therapy

Chairs: Peter FERENCI (Austria) Download Andrzej HORBAN (Poland) Download Konstantin ZHDANOV (Russia) Download

Room 252A

Triple therapy with telaprevir or boceprevir: management of side effects

Chairs: Donald JENSEN (USA) Markus PECK RADOSAVLJEVIC (Austria) Petr URBANEK (Czech Republic) Download

Room 241

Future therapeutic strategies with direct acting antivirals

Chairs: Nezam AFDHAL (USA) Download Yves BENHAMOU (France)

Room 253

How to optimize treatment in G4 patients?

Chairs: Tarik ASSELAH (France) Gamal ESMAT (Egypt)

Room 242B

Traitements des patients rechuteurs et non répondeurs (French speaking lunch workshop)

Chairs: Jean-Pierre BRONOWICKI (France) Christophe HEZODE (France) Badreddine KILANI (Tunisia) Download Vincent LEROY (France) Download

Room 243

Comment optimiser le traitement des malades naïfs ? (French speaking lunch workshop)

Chairs: Nabil DEBZI (Algeria) Download Daniel DHUMEAUX (France) Philippe MATHURIN (France) Download Mihai VOICULESCU (Romania) Download

14:30 - 15:00 State of the art lecture and Award
Chairman:
Patrick MARCELLIN (France) Download

14:30 Viral hepatitis: the past and the future - Eugene SCHIFF (USA) Download

15:00 - 16:30 End-stage liver disease is a multifaceted condition
Chairs :
Adrian DI BISCEGLIE (USA) Richard MOREAU (France)

15:00 Acute-on-chronic liver failure is a new clinical entity - Vicente ARROYO (Spain) Download

15:20 Management of hepatocellular carcinoma in 2015 - Massimo COLOMBO (Italy) Download

15:40 The coagulation system in end-stage liver disease - Dominique VALLA (France) Download

16:00 Round table discussion

16:30 Take home message - Tarik ASSELAH (France)

16:40 Conclusion - Patrick MARCELLIN (France) Download

16:45 Closing session