Dr Alex Knisely today is speaking with Dr Sami Wali, of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, senior attending gastroenterologist and chief of transplant hepatology at Prince Sultan Military Medical City. Dr Wali rose through the Saudi educational and medical-education systems, training at several Riyadh hospitals, with specialisation in paediatrics and in paediatric gastroenterology and hepatology that culminated in a year in Ontario at McMaster University and Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto – he is one of Prof Eve Roberts’ “old boys”. In Saudi Arabia many children with liver disease have metabolic disorders. Dr Wali has made large contributions to elucidating and to differentiating the features of these diseases, some of which were until recently unrecognised. Clinical, histopathologic, and genetic correlations in this field have been his specialty.

At the 2023 ESPGHAN annual meeting in Vienna he presented his experience with the forms of intrahepatic cholestasis encountered in patients with tight junction protein 2 disease, a disorder unfamiliar to many but of great interest in hepatic pathophysiology. He shares that experience with us now.

Dr. Sami´s favourite song: Helo - Adele https://open.spotify.com/track/1Yk0cQdMLx5RzzFTYwmuld?si=b4701baf63664ed8

ESPGHAN favourite Songs can be found on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0YIHKjxITLEm9XNyHyypTo