The Role of Biomarkers in Hepatitis B Management

16 March 2023, 7-8 pm AEDT

 
 

The Role of Biomarkers in Hepatitis B Management

Is Hepatitis B entering the era of personalised medicine?

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New cure strategies for Hepatitis B are in development. Emerging data suggest a key role for biomarkers to identify subsets of people living with Hepatitis B who are most likely to respond to treatment.

 

In this webinar, we discussed recent advances in Hepatitis B biomarker development, and how these tools can be used to personalise the management of people living with Hepatitis B.

16 March 2023

7:00 pm - 7:05 pm

Welcome

7:05 pm - 7:25 pm

Hepatitis B Management: With current and emerging Biomarkers

Speaker: Associate Professor Mark Douglas

7:25 pm - 7:45 pm

Is Hepatitis B entering the Era of personalised medicine?

Speaker: Professor Alex Thompson

7:45 pm - 7:55 pm

Q&A

7:55 pm - 8:00 pm

Session Close

Who should attend:

  • Infectious disease clinicians
  • Pathologists
  • Trainee physicians
  • Gastroenterologists
  • Medical scientists

Reasons to attend:

  • To learn about the latest advances in the management of Hepatitis B
  • To understand the clinical value of biomarkers in the management of Hepatitis B
  • To know the clinical approach to managing patients with Hepatitis B
  • To be aware of the guidelines on the usage of Hepatitis B markers
  • To hear from Infectious Disease clinicians about the potential of RUO biomarkers in real-world clinical practice

Faculty

Associate Professor Mark Douglas, BSc (Med)(Hons), MBBS (Hons), PhD, FRACP

Associate Professor, Storr Liver Centre

Research Academic Director - Clinical Science

The Westmead Institute for Medical Research,

The University of Sydney Westmead Clinical School

Faculty of Medicine and Health

 

Associate Professor Mark Douglas is an Infectious Diseases physician and molecular virologist, with a strong research interest in viral hepatitis. He heads the Viral Hepatitis Pathogenesis group at the Storr Liver Centre, Westmead Institute for Medical Research. He is involved in a broad array of projects, ranging from basic molecular pathogenesis to clinical research, including COVID-19. He runs liver clinics for patients with Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C, and also treats patients at Westmead Hospital with HIV and a range of Infectious Diseases.

 

Professor Alex Thompson, MBBS (hons), PhD, FRACP, FGESA, FAASLD, GAICD

Director of Gastroenterology, St. Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne

University of Melbourne

 

Alex Thompson is Professor-Director of the Department of Gastroenterology at St Vincent’s Hospital and the University of Melbourne, Australia, NHMRC Practitioner Fellow and Adjunct Assistant Professor of the Department of Gastroenterology, Duke University Medical Center. Professor Thompson is the Program Director for the Victorian Statewide Hepatitis Service, Australia, contracted to the Victorian Government’s Department of Justice and Regulation. He is a former Executive Council member of the Asian Pacific Association of the Study of the Liver (APASL). He is a Board Member of the Gastroenterological Society of Australia (GESA).  He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Study of the Liver (AASLD), and a member of the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL).  He has published widely in journals including Nature, New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Gut and Journal of Hepatology.  

 
 

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