Hepatology Summer School

12.00- 14.00       Arrival & Lunch

14.00-14.30        Welcome, Introduction of faculty and delegates Hepcom Chair and local organizers

Session 1: Basics in paediatric hepatology
Chair: Emer Fitzpatrick
14.30-15.00         Liver function tests
15.00-15.30         Imaging of the liver
15.30-16.00         Basics in liver pathology 
16.00-16.15        Coffee break

Session 2. The jaundiced neonate and infant
Chair: Aglaia Zellos
16.15-17.00         Neonatal cholestasis: approach and differential diagnosis

Session 3. Case presentations (each case 5-10’ presentation plus discussion - 20’ maximum per case)
Chair: Marianne Samyn
17.00-18.00        (3 Cases)   
18.00-18.30        Questions and answers

20.00 Welcome Dinner

Session 4. Genetic diseases of the liver 

08.30-09.00        Genetic cholestasis 
09.00-09.30       Using clinical genomics to unravel liver phenotypes (liver disease other than cholestasis)        

Session 5. Metabolic liver disease, infections and autoimmunity
Chair: Tudor Pop
9.30-10.00           Differential diagnosis of fatty liver disease
10.00-10.30         Coffee break
10.30-11.00         Autoimmune hepatitis and sclerosing cholangitis
11.00-11.30         Chronic viral hepatitis 

Session 5. Acute liver failure
Chair: Norman Junge
11.30-12.00        Acute liver failure: differential diagnosis and management 

Session 6. Case presentations
Chair: Emer Fitzpatrick

12.00-13.00      (3 Cases)

13.00-14.30         Lunch

Session 7. Working in groups

14.30-16.00        Candidates split into working groups. Facilitators briefly present a single case and discuss it with candidates (pathologist and radiologist joining the discussion)

Group 1: biliary atresia 
Group 2: primary sclerosing cholangitis 
Group 3: PFIC 
Group 4: acute liver failure 
Group 5: autoimmune hepatitis 

16.00-16.30         Coffee break

16.30-18.00         Candidates collects input from the faculty and draft a case presentation highlighting clinical aspects, differential diagnosis, hot research topics, proposal for a collaborative study to be presented on Saturday morning

19.00     Dinner

Session 7. Complications of chronic liver disease, nutrition
Chair: Marianne Samyn

08.30-09.00           Portal hypertension
09.00-9.30             Surgical management of portal hypertension                                             
09.30-10.00           Cardiopulmonary complications and liver tumors
10.00-10.30           Coffee break

10.30-11.30         Case presentations (3 cases)
Chair: Xavier Stephenne

Session 8. Ask the expert session
Chair: Emanuele Nicastro
11.30-12.00         Ask the expert: how do you manage end-stage liver disease? 
12.00-12.30         Ask the expert: nutrition in children with chronic liver disease
12.30-13.00         Ask the expert: how do you transfer a child to the adult care? 
13.00-14.00         Lunch

Session 9.            Liver transplantation 
Chair: TBC
14.00-14.30         When to refer a child for liver transplantation? 
14.30-15.00         Surgical aspects of liver transplantation
15.00-15.30        Medical management following liver transplantation   
15.30-16.00        Questions and answers

16.30 - networking and dinner

 

Session 10. Group discussion
09.00-10.40                        Reports and discussion of the working groups (20 minutes for each group)
10.40-11.00                         Coffee break

Session 11. Conclusion and remarks
11.00-11.30                        What is hot in Paediatric Hepatology
11.30-12.00                        Current activity of Hepcom, closing remarks, farewell