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Surfing NASH delivered a second wrap-up session on-site in Vienna as a part of its real-time coverage of a truly thought-provoking EASL Congress 2023. This conversation held after the Saturday late breakers features key opinion leaders Hannes Hagström and Michelle Long, entrepreneur and epigenetics advocate Rachel Zayas and patient advocates Jeff McIntyre and Michael Betel alongside host Roger Green.

This conversation covers a few interesting moments from the conference, starting with the appearance of Tetiana Deshko to speak about the gruesome realities of public health care in Ukraine during the invasion. From there, Jeff talks about a broader issue of how we support funding of treatments in parts of the world that lack hepatologists or adequate resources. The group also discusses the idea that Predictive Health Intelligence in the UK has begun to improve patient screening dramatically with a simple, non AI-based data analysis methodology that could likely be applied in a variety of regions. Michael comments on the session where the question arose whether physicians should inform patients about having fatty liver disease before drug therapies were available to treat it. Spoiler alert: the patient advocate answer is an emphatic yes! Finally, Roger's closing question asks the group about what they learned in the meeting that will change their work going forward.

For a variety of reasons, EASL Congress 2023 has been looked forward to by the liver community with arguably an unprecedented sense of excitement and intensity. The conversations resulting from the podcast’s two real-time reviews suggest that the actual event met or exceeded such high expectations. If you have any question or interests around EASL Congress, we kindly ask that you submit reviews wherever you download the discourse. Alternatively, you can write to us directly at [email protected].

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