6.11 - Multi-Metabolic Practices Integrate MASLD with Other Non-Communicable Diseases
Send us a text 00:00:00 - Surf's Up: Season 6, Episode 11 This week, we modify our usual episode structure to focus on multi-metabolic practices and constructs. The multi-metabolic practices covered this week are run by non-hepatologists who have chosen to focus on the liver in a broader cardiometabolic context. They include two practices discussed during a two-part roundtable, one run by US gastroenterologist Dr. Karen Jerome-Zapadka and the EDOM practice in Spain, run by endocrinologi...
15 Aug 1h 49min
6.10.3 - Expert: Tim Jobson on Using Basic Data and Analytics to Identify At-Risk Patients
Send us a text This week's expert is Tim Jobson, Medical Director of Predictive Health Intelligence, a UK-based consultancy. Tim joins Louise Campbell and Roger Green to share an update on PHI's Somerset UK project and other activities. The Somerset pilot was designed to help the NHS identify untreated patients at high risk for liver disease and bring them to the office for screening. Tim describes hepatoSIGHT, a tool that "allows clinicians to get their hands on the data and to find pa...
10 Aug 37min
6.10.2 - Newsmakers: LiverRight Launches America's First Virtual Hepatology Clinic
Send us a text Roger Green talks with LiverRight CEO Brandon Tudor and Chief Medical Officer Alexander Lalos about the launch of LiverRight, America's first virtual hepatology clinic, which has recently begun treating patients. Brandon starts the conversation by telling the story of how he and his partner, Pete Celano, started LiverRight: they saw liver disease as a growing disease in a medical system that was ill-equipped to provide front-line care. When the two men "secret shopped" getting ...
9 Aug 30min
6.10.1 - FIrst Six Months, Part I: The Promise of Proteomics For Developing Individualized Treatment Plans
Send us a text This conversation is the first segment of SurfingMASH’s July discussion of key events from the first six months of 2025. Co-hosts Jörn Schattenberg, Louise Campbell and Roger Green each chose one topic of personal interest. Today, Jörn Schattenberg discusses two recent papers that demonstrate differences in how individual patients respond to different proteomic tests and what this can mean for individualized treatment plans. Jörn begins by citing Modulation of megab...
9 Aug 27min
6.10 - New Approaches to Patient Care: NIT-driven drug choices, Virtual Clinics, Large-Scale Screening
Send us a text 00:00 - Surf's Up 6.10.1 This conversation covers three topics. Jörn Schattenberg discusses two papers that suggest an exciting role NITs might play in future prescribing decisions, two executives from LiverRight describe the U.S.'s first virtual liver clinic, and Tom Jobson of Predictive Health Intelligence updates us on how simple analyses of large data bases can identify and motivate high-risk liver patients to visit their doctors. 00:17:30 - Roundtable: NITs might hel...
8 Aug 1h 32min
6.9.3 - Expert: Naim Alkhouri Discusses His Long Friendship with Stephen Harrison and His New Role at Summit Clinical Research
Send us a text Hepatologist and hepatology key opinion leader Naim Alkhouri joins Roger Green to remember his longstanding relationship with Stephen Harrison, announce his new role as Chief Academic Officer at Summit Clinical Research and share how, in this role, he will have exciting new avenues make an impact on many elements of MASH drug development and patient care. The conversation can be divided into two sections. In the first, Naim recounts his relationship with Stephen Harrison,...
6 Aug 29min
6.9.2 - Newsmaker: Fatty Liver Alliance President Mike Betel Discusses His 3rd Annual 30-Day Glucose Challenge
Send us a text Fatty Liver Alliance President Mike Betel joins Roger Green to discuss his recent completion of the 3rd Annual Glucose Challenge, an event every July where Mike wears a continuous glucose monitor (CGM) device for a month, conducts food experiments, tracks glucose levels and shares all results with his LinkedIn and FattyLiver.ca friends and followers. The conversation starts with Mike sharing the history of the Glucose Challenge. Over its first three years, it has evolved ...
5 Aug 39min
6.9.1 - #SLDThinkTank2025, Part III: Unique Challenge of Nutrition Management and Role Politicians Can Play
Send us a text This conversation is the third and final segment of SurfingMASH’s July discussion of #SLDThinkTank 2025. In addition to co-hosts Jörn Schattenberg, Louise Campbell and Roger Green, panelists include Dr. Kristina Curtis of Applied Behaviour Change, a UK-based consultancy. Louise begins this conversation by highlighting the low level of correct information (and, frequently, high level of passionately-held misinformation) that adults have about diet and her success in improv...
5 Aug 23min
