S6 - E4.1 - MASLD Drugs, SLD Spectrum Insights Suggest Bright Future
Send us a text This conversation is the concluding segment of SurfingMASH's coverage of the AASLD Emerging Trends Conference on the SLD Spectrum diseases: MASLD, MetALD and ALD. In addition to co-hosts Louise Campbell and Roger Green, panelists include EASL Secretary General Aleksander Krag, hepatologist Alex Lalos and Jenn Leigh Jones, Founder of the Society for Sober Livers Survival patient advocacy group. The conversation starts with Roger questioning whether it is a good or bad idea...
12 Apr 20min
S6 - E4 - Reasons for optimism in MASLD drug development and patient advocacy
Send us a text 00:00:00 - Surf's Up: Season 6 Episode 4 Surfing the MASH Tsunami concludes its coverage of the AASLD Emerging Trends Conference on MASLD, MetALD and ALD. This week, the panelists focus on pivotal messages that attendees took away from the conference and what messages they would like to share with listeners. Our newsmaker, Fatty Liver Alliance and CEO Mike Betel, discusses the lessons he has taken from being invited to a far wider swath of conferences this year and shares...
11 Apr 1h 12min
S6 - E3.3 - Expert: GLI's Jeff McIntyre discusses implications of FDA job cuts on MASH drugs
Send us a text This week's Expert is Jeff McIntyre, Vice President, Liver Programs at the Global Liver Institute. His major topic is how recent high-level FDA job cuts might affect MASH drug and diagnostics development. He also shares reactions to FibroSIGHT, HistoIndex's new digital pathology service for clinical practice. Highlight: Recent job cuts at the FDA will produce chaos in government and slow response to any emerging crises. Second Highlight: Patient self-advocacy becomes even...
6 Apr 31min
S6 E3.2 - Newsmakers: FibroSIGHT™ Brings Clinical Trial Analytics to the Clinic
Send us a text This week's newsmaker, Yukti Choudhury, Director of Clinical Development at HistoIndex, joins Roger Green to discuss FibroSIGHT, a new HistoIndex service that allows clinicians to use HistoIndex's Second Harmonic Generation (SHG) technology and analytics to determine specific CRN fibrosis level for patients with inconclusive NIT results. One reason FibroSIGHT is worthy of attention: This is the first time an in-depth analysis of clinical trial biopsy results is being pla...
5 Apr 28min
S6- E3.1 - Roundtable: Spotting Tomorrow’s Trends in Today's MASLD Studies
Send us a text 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. Guest Surfers include Professor Aleksander Krag of the University of Southern Denmark, the current Secretary-General of EALS, hepatologist Alexander Lalos of Robert Wood Johnson hospital, and...
5 Apr 15min
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 Apr 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 Mar 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 Mar 1h 13min
