6.11.3 - Expert: Emily Andaya Asks Why There Is No "L" In the (Multi-Meatbolic) CKM Initiative
Send us a text This week's expert interview is with Dr. Emily Andaya, Medical Director of the Cardiovascular Program at Major Health Partners of Shelbyville, IN. She joins Louise Campbell and Roger Green to discuss the American Heart Assocation's CKM initiative, why she believe it should be titled "CKLM" for liver, and how including liver in the CKM scoring system would make it stronger and provide a more robust tool to help improve patients' health. Emily begins by discussing her atten...
17 Aug 41min
6.11.2 - Multi-Metabolic Week Part II: Benefits of the Multi-Metabolic Approach
Send us a text Multi-Metabolic Week focuses on the idea that MASLD and MASH are elements in a systemic set of Multi-Metabolic issues. This conversation is the second of two looking at the concept of the "Multi-Metabolic Clinic," a clinic that treats the entire spectrum of multi-metabolic diseases. This conversation starts by focusing on how the two clinics train other physicians and practices on multi-metabolic issues. The EDOM clinic in Spain is certified to provide nutritional training to o...
17 Aug 43min
6.11.1 - Multi-Metabolic Week Part I: Role of MASLD In Multi-Metabolic Clinics
Send us a text Multi-Metabolic Week focuses on the idea that MASLD and MASH are elements in a systemic set of Multi-Metabolic issues. This conversation is the first of two looking at the concept of the "Multi-Metabolic Clinic," a clinic that treats the entire spectrum of multi-metabolic diseases. The core of this episode starts during the weekly groundbreaker exercise, during which our guests began to describe the path that brought them from single-disease specialization to the broader ...
16 Aug 37min
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
