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2012 Academic Debates

Please join us as Fellows from around the Midwest debate current liver health topics. The Debates are CME accredited and dinner will be served.

February 2nd, 2012 (6pm - 9:30pm)

Contact: Mackay Gunn
Phone: 312-377-9030 x15

The Gleacher Center - University of Chicago Booth School of Business - Directions
450 N. Cityfront Plaza Drive
Chicago, IL 60611

2012 Academic Debates
Presented by the Medical Advisory Committee of the
American Liver Foundation

Thursday, Feburary 2, 2012
6:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
The Gleacher Center
University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Debate #1: Liver Transplantation
University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago vs.
University of Chicago Medial Center

Should the Milan criteria be used to allocate organs in patients with live donors?

Debate #2: Management of chronic liver disease
University of Wisconsin Medical Center vs.
Rush University Medical Center

What is the best treatment for patients with difficult to treat ascites (i.e. ascites that cannot be mobilized despite sodium restriction and diuretic treatment) and MELD 18? TIPS or medical managment

Debate #3: Hepatitis C
Advocate Lutheran General Hospital vs.
Loyola University Medical System

In previous non-responders with early stage fibrosis, what is the best option: treat with combination therapy or wait for non-interferon based therapies?

Please RSVP to Mackay Gunn at
mgunn@liverfoundation.org or 312-377-9030 ext. 15.

A $20 donation per person will be greatly appreciated to help fund the programs of the American Liver Division, Great Lakes Division.

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