S6 - E7.3 - Deep Dive into Drug Development, Part III: NITs in Drug Development
Send us a text This conversation is the third segment of SurfingMASH’s April discussion of drug development in memory of Stephen A. Harrison. In addition to co-hosts Jörn Schattenberg, Louise Campbell and Roger Green, panelists include hepatologists and key opinion leaders Sven Francque and Naim Alkhouri. Louise starts the discussion by asking when a patient is metabolically and hepatically healthy instead of merely driving weight loss. She notes that basing therapy entirely on weight l...
25 Jul 14min
S6 - E7.2 - Patient Advocate Jose Willemse on Patient-Centered Care
Send us a text This week's newsmaker, Dutch Liver Patients Association President Jose Willemse, joins Roger Green to discuss the patient screening program at this year's EASL Congress, which took place in Amsterdam, and the general idea of what constitutes a patient-sensitive dialogue. Jose describes the phenomenal level of interest in the screening activity, in which hepatologists and APPs scanned 400 people per day for MASLD and MASH. Boosted by significant mass publicity in Amsterdam...
22 Jul 33min
S6 - E7.1 - #SLDThinkTank2025 Part I: Hybrid Interventions Integrate AI and Human Care
Send us a text This conversation is the opening segment of SurfingMASH's coverage of the Global Think Tank on Steatotic Liver Diseases (#SLDThinkTank2025) held in Barcelona in June. Co-hosts Louise Campbell and Roger Green are joined by Dr. Kristina Curtis, Managing Director of Applied Behaviour Change, a UK-based consultancy. This discussion starts with co-host Jörn Schattenberg discussing the history and evolution of the first four Global Think-Tanks as the focus shifts fr...
22 Jul 22min
S6 - E7 - Barcelona SLD Conference Highlight; NITs in Drug Development
Send us a text 00:00:00 - Surf's Up: Season 6 Episode 7 Host Roger Green explains our recent vacation from publishing episodes, assures the audience that the podcast will continue weekly for months and years ahead, and discusses the episode's sections, covering the Global Think-Tank on Steatotic Liver Disease (SLD), the EASL patient screening activity and the increasing role of NITs in drug development. While introducing roundtable guests, he introduces first-time Surfer Dr. Kristina Curtis o...
17 Jul 1h 9min
S6 - E6 - Remembering Stephen Harrison and His Many Contributions to MASH
Send us a text 00:00:00 Surf's Up, Season 6, Episode 6. On April 23, 2024, our colleague and co-founder, Stephen Harrison, passed away suddenly. This week, Surfing the MASH Tsunami remembers Stephen with two of his closest associates and continues our annual MASH Drug Development roundtable held in his honor. 00:00:04:24 - A Deep Dive into Drug Development, Part 2 The second portion of the Drug Development roundtable primarily focuses on three key issues. The first, uptake of resmetirom...
26 Apr 57min
S6 - E5.2 - Newsmaker: Naga Chalasani on Real-World Experience Prescribing Resmetirom
Send us a text This weekend’s Newsmaker, Indiana University hepatologist and key opinion leader Naga Chalasani, joins Roger Green to discuss Early Experience with Resmetirom To Treat Metabolic-Associated Steatohepatitis with Fibrosis in a Real-World Setting, an article his group published recently in Hepatology Communications. He shares highlights from the paper and points out the one key area in which his group found room for improvement in their initial protocol. Naga and colleagues w...
24 Apr 26min
S6 - E5.3 - Expert: Scott Friedman on Gene Therapy and Advances in Liver Science
Send us a text This week’s expert, Hepatologist and Key Opinion Leader Scott Friedman, joins Roger to discuss advances in acceptance of gene therapy and knowledge in other areas of basic liver science. When discussing science, he pays particular attention to findings on the diversity of stellate cells and his interest in CAR-T as a therapy for liver disease. This conversation starts with Scott discussing gene therapy. Specifically, he applauds the idea that gene therapy is becoming acce...
24 Apr 23min
S6 - E5.1 - FGF-21s and A Promising Future on Cirrhosis
Send us a text This conversation is the opening segment of SurfingMASH's April discussion, in memory of Stephen A. Harrison, on drug development. In addition to co-hosts Jörn Schattenberg, Louise Campbell and Roger Green, panelists include hepatologists and key opinion leaders Sven Francque and Naim Alkhouri. This opening discussion focuses on exciting advances in one drug class (FGF-21s) and, more broadly, on exploring ways to treat cirrhosis. As Naim points out in his opening comment,...
22 Apr 24min
