S6 - E3 - Drugs and Diagnostics Evolve as the FDA Devolves
Send us a text 00:00:00 - Surf's Up: Season 6 Episode 3 Surfing the MASH Tsunami continues its coverage of the AASLD Emerging Trends Conference on MASLD, MetALD and ALD. This week, the panelists focus on what studies on bariatric surgery and drugs in development can tell us about future treatment and explore some clinical trial questions. Our newsmaker, HistoIndex Director of Clinical Development Yukti Choudhury, introduces us to FibroSIGHT, which provides clinicians with highly precise biops...
4 Huhti 1h 12min
S6 - E2 - MetALD Epidemiology, MASLD Mortality and a PCP "Unicorn"
Send us a text 00:00:00 - Surf's Up: Season 6 Episode 2 Surfing the MASH Tsunami continues its coverage of the AASLD Emerging Trends Conference on MASLD, MetALD and ALD. This week, the panelists focus on disease epidemiology and what it can teach us about the relative importance of alcohol and diet on disease progression. Our newsmaker, hepatology KOL and frequent Surfer Hannes Hagstrom, discusses what a recent paper demonstrates about the impact of MASLD on 15-year mortality and cause of dea...
28 Maalis 1h 11min
S6 - E1: Two Multispecialty February Conferences and Europe Prepares for Resmetirom
Send us a text 00:00:00 - Surf's Up! Season 6 Episode 1 SurfingMASH kicks off our sixth season in our new format, with three major elements to each episode. This week's Roundtable and Newsmakers segments focused on two recent conferences that took a multispecialty perspective on the range of medical and psychological issues affecting steatotic liver disease (a new concept specialty: steatology.") Our Expert this week is our co-host Jörn Schattenberg, discussing the educational and conceptual ...
21 Maalis 1h 13min
S5 - E26.5 - Looking Back at #TLM2024 - Promoting Healthy Livers and Looking Ahead to 2025
Send us a text In this episode, Naim Alkhouri, Mike Betel, Michelle Long and Jeff McIntyre join Jörn Schattenberg and Roger Green to look back at The Liver Meeting 2024. This conversation reviews two sessions promoting healthy livers and asks panelists what they anticipate for #TLM2025. This last conversation starts with Jeff describing the session that moved him most and praising a panel that Mike co-chaired on Lifestyle Management of MASLD and MASH. Jeff spoke on this panel, and he descri...
3 Tammi 15min
S5 - E26.4 - Looking Back at #TLM2024 - Patient Advocacy and Patient-Centric Trials
Send us a text In this episode, Naim Alkhouri, Mike Betel, Michelle Long and Jeff McIntyre join Jörn Schattenberg and Roger Green to look back at The Liver Meeting 2024. This conversation considers the role of patient advocacy in replacing biopsy in clinical trials with NITs and reviews a session on the foundational principles for patien-centric clinical trials. This conversation picks up at the end of Michelle's discussion of the FDA Corner session. Jeff starts by identifying this specific...
3 Tammi 11min
S5 - E26.3 - Looking Back at #TLM2024 - FGF-21 Agents and the FDA Corner
Send us a text In this episode, Naim Alkhouri, Mike Betel, Michelle Long and Jeff McIntyre join Jörn Schattenberg and Roger Green to look back at The Liver Meeting 2024. This conversation reviews the late-breaker presentation on efimosermin, a q4w FGF-21 agent and the "FDA Corner" session. Jörn begins the discussion by highlighting a paper from the later breaker session on efimosfermin alfa, an FGF-21 agent dosed q4w. He notes that after only six doses (24 weeks), efimosfermin alfa dem...
2 Tammi 13min
S5 - E26.2 - Looking Back at #TLM2024 - Patient Genotyping and MASH Clusters
Send us a text In this episode, Naim Alkhouri, Mike Betel, Michelle Long and Jeff McIntyre join Jörn Schattenberg and Roger Green to look back at The Liver Meeting 2024. This conversation considers how the anticipated approval of a second MASH drug without biopsy might affect clinical trials and discusses two recent publications on patient genotyping and patient clusters. The conversation starts with Roger asking the group whether the presence of two approved MASH medications that do not re...
2 Tammi 14min
S5 - E26.1 - Looking Back at #TLM2024 - Semaglutide Passes the ESSENCE Test
Send us a text In this episode, Naim Alkhouri, Mike Betel, Michelle Long and Jeff McIntyre join Jörn Schattenberg and Roger Green to look back at The Liver Meeting 2024. This conversation reviews the ESSENCE trial, the Phase 3 trial demonstrating that semaglutide regresses fibrosis levels in some MASH patients. The conversation begins with each panelist sharing a word or short phrase they felt best captured their feelings about TLM2024. Next, panelists review the meeting's most conseq...
2 Tammi 13min
