EASL Podcasts – Details, episodes & analysis

Ever wondered what happens to your manuscript after submission? In this episode, the JHEP Reports editorial team takes you behind the scenes: from first triage to reviewer selection, smart moves vs. red flags, and how final decisions are made. The discussion also explores the potential, limitations, and ethical pitfalls.

Moderator: Mattias Mandorfer 

Speakers: Tobias Böttler, Virginia Hernández-Gea, Josep Llovet

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After years of limited progress, recent trials hint at a changing landscape for primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC). In this episode, experts review emerging data and explore whether we’re approaching a new era of effective treatment. How should clinicians assess these therapies, and could they shift the current management of PSC?

Moderator: Debbie Shawcross

Speakers: Cynthia Levy, Stephen Rossi, Michael Trauner

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Listen to this EASL Studio episode to explore how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming healthcare. Discuss its potential to revolutionise medical practice, its limitations, and whether it poses a threat or an opportunity for the future of the medical profession.

Moderator: Ahmed Elsharkawy  

Faculty: Jakob Kather, Sabela Lens, Ashley Spann 

Related episodes:

• EASL Studio at EASL Congress 2024 – Exploring new frontiers: The AI liver taskforce initiative
• S4E5 – AI for dummies
• S2E13 – Digital Pathology

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Machine perfusion is changing the status quo in liver transplantation by optimising the use of organs in times of organ shortage.

Watch this EASL Studio to:

• Better understand the role of machine perfusion in liver transplantation
• Understand the optimal situations in machine perfusion is beneficial
• Have an overview of the different types of machines under evaluation

Faculty

• Prof. Marina Berenguer (Moderator)
• Prof. Pierre-Alain Clavien (Faculty)
• Dr Amelia Hessheimer (Faculty)

Related episodes

• S3E8 – Transplanting patients with cancer – Is there a limit?
• S3E2 – Liver transplantation for ACLF: Opportunities, challenges, and pitfalls

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The field of artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly growing and derived technologies are technologies are increasingly being used in medical sciences to improve patient outcomes.

• What exactly is AI?
• How can it be beneficial?
• Why should AI be used in medicine?

Watch this EASL Studio to find out.

Faculty

• Prof. Jakob Nikolas Kather (Moderator)
• Prof. Julien Calderaro (Faculty)
• Dr Arsela Prelaj (Faculty)
• Dr Tobias Seraphin (Faculty)
• Dr Katy Wack (Faculty)

All EASL Studio Podcasts are available on EASL Campus.

Although there is an almost unanimous consensus on the prognostic weight of the term ‘decompensation’, a clear corresponding consensus on its definition is still lacking. In addition, classifying cirrhosis as compensated and decompensated oversimplifies the clinical course of the disease which encompasses many different groups.

Faculty

• Prof. Paolo Angeli (Moderator)
• Prof. Guadalupe Garcia-Tsao (Faculty)
• Prof. Salvatore Piano (Faculty)
• Prof. Thomas Reiberger (Faculty)

All EASL Studio Podcasts are available on EASL Campus.

Alcohol is the main cause of advanced liver disease and a major cause of hospitalisation and disability across the globe, including Europe. In this EASL Studio you will hear the patient perspective from an individual who has overcome this disease and listen to the faculty discuss the measures that can help prevent it.

Faculty

• Prof. Ramon Bataller (Moderator)
• Prof. Giovanni Addolorato (Faculty)
• Prof. Peter Jepsen (Faculty)
• Prof. Debbie Shawcross (Faculty)
• Mrs Kristen Radage (Faculty)
• Mr. Steven Rodrigues (Patient Perspective)

Related episodes

• S3E5: JHEP Live: Stigma and alcohol
• S3E4: Special Edition: Highlights of EASL NAFLD Summit 2022

All EASL Studio Podcasts are available on EASL Campus.

The value of scientific collaboration and data sharing through registries and consortia is unequivocal. But what are the main challenges to building a consortium and how do we overcome them.

Join the faculty as they provide you with a practical, experience-based view of how to build a successful consortium.

Faculty

• Dr Marta Afonso (Moderator)
• Dr Mattias Mandorfer (Moderator)
• Prof. Jesús Bañales (Faculty)
• Prof. Rajiv Jalan (Faculty)
• Prof. Pierre Emmanuel Rautou (Faculty)

All EASL Studio Podcasts are available on EASL Campus.

In the first episode of EASL Studio season 4, the faculty looked at the current status of hepatitis B elimination and discussed what needs to be done to achieve it.

Faculty

• Dr Ahmed Elsharkawy (Moderator)
• Mr Danjuma K. Adda (Faculty)
• Prof. Maud Lemoine (Faculty)
• Prof. Jean-Michel Pawlotsky (Faculty)
• Dr John Ward (Faculty)

Related episodes

• Special Edition: Live from Viral Hepatitis Elimination Conference 2022
• S3E2: Interview with Stephan Urban – From bench to bedside: Process of developing the first HBV/HDV entry inhibitor
• S2E8: Treatment of HBV-HDV coinfection in the era of entry inhibition

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Results from current clinical trials are rapidly evolving, with mixed results. In this EASL Studio the faculty discuss:

• why certain trials have failed whereas others have succeeded,
• what we have learned about the connection between overall survival and progression-free survival as endpoints, and
• how the systemic therapy of HCC has evolved.

Faculty

• Prof. Peter Galle (Moderator)
• Prof. Bruno Sangro (Faculty)
• Dr Anna Saborowski (Faculty)
• Prof. Arndt Vogel (Faculty)

Related episodes

• S2E15 – JHEP Live – The best animal model for HCC — lost in translation
• Special Edition: Highlights of the Liver Cancer Summit 2022
• Policy Dialogues Episode 3: Liver Cancer: The risk of ignorance

All EASL Studio Podcasts are available on EASL Campus.