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This vault conversation looks back to our coverage of International NASHDay 2023, the predecessor title to this year's Global Fatty Liver Day.

Thursday, June 8 was International #NASHDay 2023 and the podcast hosted a special session featuring patient advocates Gina Villiotti Madison (NASH kNOWledge), Marko Korenjak (European Liver Patients'​ Association) and Michael Betel (Fatty Liver Alliance). With co-hosts Louise Campbell and Roger Green, the group shares both a positive and sobering discussion around the Fatty Liver public health epidemic and its impact on younger generations now and into the imminent future.

Roger starts this conversation by asking Louise to provide more information about the U.K. Parliament debate that had just commenced. Louise notes that MPs from all parts of the UK participated and that they were extremely well-informed on childhood NAFLD and other issues. She notes that members told stories of their own weight loss and government promise to brief MPs on liver disease on an interim basis going forward. One MP said he did not like the term living with obesity, which is considered patient sensitive, because it implies that obesity is a permanent condition. This leads to Roger's closing question which asks each panelist to envision what their organizations' key 2024 International #NASHDay activities might be. While their answer are aligned with what they did for the International #NASHDay 2023, listen for some different twists and new directions.

This is a particularly important and moving episode that captures a range of topics pertinent to the patient perspective and, more broadly, stepping up to NASH.