S5 - E22.2 - Healthy Livers, Healthy Lives: "Political Will" In MASLD Public Policy
Send us a text Healthy Livers, Healthy Lives Chair Jeff Lazarus joins Jörn Schattenberg, Louise Campbell and Roger Green to discuss why political will is so important in overcoming inertia and obstruction in global MASLD public health policy. Louise notes that she left NHS because of obstruction against earlier stage efforts to promote liver health and asks how to achieve these goals. To Jeff, it all depends on political will. He provides an example from viral hepatitis to prove his point. ...
7 Juli 202412min
S5 - E22.1 - Healthy Livers, Healthy Lives: Why MASHville Needs This Coalition
Send us a text Healthy Livers, Healthy Lives Chair Jeff Lazarus joins Jörn Schattenberg, Louise Campbell and Roger Green to discuss how the coalition came into existence and to describe two initiatves aimed at increasing early screening. Jeff starts the conversation by describing the "bit of a bubble" in which the MASLD community lives: great news and lots of excitement within, but very limited exposure to related metabolic specialties (endocrinology, primary care, cardiology) and limited aw...
7 Juli 202413min
S5 - E22 - Healthy Livers, Healthy Lives: A Global SLD Public Health Coalition
Send us a text 00:00:00 - Surf's Up: Season 5 Episode 22 Jeff Lazarus joins Jörn Schattenberg, Louise Campbell and Roger Green to discuss Healthy Livers, Healthy Lives, a coalition of four major professional organizations (AASLD, ALEH, APASL and EASL) and other partners. This coalition works with other specialties to create global public health awareness and drive "top-down" solutions that are pivotal to stemming the MASLD Tsunami. 00:06:48 - The need for a MASLD public health ...
4 Juli 202445min
S5 - E21.6 - From The Vault: Comments On The 2023 AASLD Revised Practice Guidance
Send us a text This week's vault conversation looks back 17 months when Ken Cusi joined co-hosts Louise Campbell, Jörn Schatenberg and Roger Green to discuss the revised AASLD Practice Guidance that had been issued the previous week. At the time, here was SurfingMASH's summary of the conversation: Late last week, AASLD published new practice guidance on the clinical assessment and management of NAFLD. The Surfers convene with Ken Cusi, who contributed to the previous iteration published in ...
30 Juni 202411min
S5 - E21.5 - The Updated MASLD CPG: Implications For Healthcare Systems
Send us a text In this closing conversation, updated MASLD CPG co-authors Frank Tacke and Elisabetta Bugianesi and podcast co-hosts Louise Campbell and Roger Green consider what the guidelines might foretell in changes in provider education, structure of patient visits and treatment in less affluent or medically advanced countries. The last set of questions begins with Roger asking what kinds of changes the authors would like to see in the healthcare system. Frank likes Louise's idea ...
30 Juni 202412min
S5 - E21.4 - The Updated MASLD CPG: Pharmacology And New Educational Needs
Send us a text For most of this conversation, updated MASLD CPG co-authors Frank Tacke and Elisabetta Bugianesi discuss key issues related to pharmacology and prescribing choices. At the end, the focus shifts to the guidelines' overall benefits and some new kinds of education they call for. The conversation starts with co-host Roger Green asking about key issues from the pharmacology section. Frank states that one benefit of the CPG is the clarity around the point that optimal treatmen...
30 Juni 202411min
S5 - E21.3 - The Updated MASLD CPG: Screening, Diagnosing And Managing Patients
Send us a text In this conversation, updated MASLD CPG co-authors Frank Tacke and Elisabetta Bugianesi discuss some of the guidelines' key goals and issues surrounding the screening, diagnosis and management of MASLD patients. As the conversation starts, co-host Roger Green says that he, too, was impressed that all these adjustments were made within a month at the end of the process. Frank praises the "very engaged Delphi panel" that reacted and voted quickly, and fairly consistently.&...
29 Juni 202413min
S5 - E21.2 - The Updated MASLD CPG: Benefits Of The Collaboration
Send us a text In this conversation, updated MASLD CPG co-authors Frank Tacke and Elisabetta Bugianesi explain how the guidelines process benefitted from the close collaboration between EASL, EASD, and EASO. The conversation starts with Elisabetta conveying the "big advantage" that came from this collaboration. The presence of the three organizations conveyed the need to create a common way to manage patients with MASLD, many of whom live with diabetes and obesity. The guideline also ...
29 Juni 202411min
