Liver Research Day: Understanding the Natural History of Cholestatic Liver Diseases

Thursday, April 20, 2023 | 2 p.m. — 4 p.m.
Friday, April 21, 2023 | 8 a.m. — 2:10 p.m.

Genome and Biomedical Sciences Facility (GBSF)
451 Health Science Drive, Auditorium
Davis Campus

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Agenda

Thursday, April 20, 2023

1:30 – 2 p.m. Registration

2 – 2:10 p.m. Welcome

"Natural History Studies in Cholestatic Liver Diseases"

2:10 – 2:30 p.m. "What have we learned about PBC from a large administrative dataset? – the FoLD experience" - Stuart Gordon, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Wayne State University Director, Henry Ford Hospital Division of Hepatology

2:30 – 2:50 p.m. "What have we learned about PBC from real word data? – the TARGET PBC and Global PBC experience" - Cynthia Levy, M.D., Professor, Miami University,  School of Medicine

2:50 – 3:10 p.m. "What have we learned from ChiLDreN?" - Alexander Miethke, M.D., Associate Professor, University of Cincinnati

3:10 – 3:30 p.m. "What have we learned from the CALiD Consortium?" - Christopher Bowlus, M.D., Lena Valente Professor and Chief, UC Davis Health, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

3:40 – 4 p.m. Panel Discussion

Friday, April 21, 2023

7:30 – 8 a.m. Registration

8 – 08:10 a.m. Welcome

"Pathogenesis of Cholestatic Liver Diseases" (Moderator: Valentina Medici, M.D., Fred and Pat Anderson Endowed Chair and Vice Chair of Research, UC Davis Health, Department of Internal Medicine)

8:10 – 8:40 a.m. "The Long and Latent Road to Autoimmunity" - M. Eric Gershwin, M.D., Distinguished Professor of Medicine, UC Davis Health Division of Rheumatology, Allergy & Clinical Immunology

8:40 – 9:10 a.m. "What have mouse models of PBC taught us?" - William Ridgway, M.D., Jack and Donald Chia Professor and Chief, UC Davis Health Division of Rheumatology, Allergy & Clinical Immunology

9:10 – 9:40 a.m. "What can mouse models of PSC tell us about the microbiome?" – Olumuyiwa Awoniyi, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Cleveland Clinic

9:40 – 10 a.m. Panel Discussion

10 – 10:10 a.m. Coffee Break

"Clinical Care of Patients with Cholestatic Liver Disease" (Moderator: Eric Chak, M.D., Associate Professor, UC Davis Health, Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology)

10:10 – 10:30 a.m. "Second line treatment of PBC – fenofibrate or obeticholic acid?" - David Assis, M.D., Associate Professor, Yale University, School of Medicine

10:30 – 10:50 a.m. "Liver transplantation for cholestatic liver diseases" - Sophocles Alexopoulos, M.D., Professor and Chief, UC Davis Health, Division of Transplant Surgery

10:50 – 11:10 a.m. "Disparities in autoimmune liver diseases" - Michele Tana, M.D., Associate Professor, UC San Francisco

11:10 – 11:30 a.m. "Management of IBD in the Patient with PSC" - Jesse Stondell, M.D. Associate Professor, UC Davis Health, Division of Gastroenterology

11:30 – 11:45 a.m. Panel Discussion

11:45 AM – 1 p.m. Lunch and Poster Viewing

"Biomarkers of Cholestatic Liver Diseases" (Moderator: Maneesh Dave, M.D., Associate Professor, UC Davis Health, Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology)

1 – 1:20 p.m. "Antibody glycosylation in PSC and PBC" - Weici Zhang, Ph.D., Assistant Adjunct Professor, UC Davis Health, Division of Rheumatology, Allergy & Clinical Immunology

1:20 – 1:40 p.m. "Biomarker Discovery in PSC" - Christopher Bowlus, M.D.

1:40 – 2 p.m. "Molecular Imaging in Liver Disease" - Ramsey Badawi, Ph.D., Vice-Chair for Research, UC Davis Health, Department of Radiology

2 – 2:10 p.m. Panel Discussion

2:10 p.m. Poster Award Announcement