High Impact Hepatology is underway! Fantastic guest speaker Patricia Jones discussing HCC and disparities. Thank you Dr. Jones!

Kicking off our 2nd session with our Chief of Abdominal Surgery, Dr. Chirag Desai, as he introduces our new living donor liver transplant program at UNC to help bridge the gap and address disparities in transplant! UNC Liver Center UNC Surgery

Just in time for lunch, Neil Shah, MD teaches us about improving frailty and sarcopenia in patients with cirrhosis. Give a prescription for exercise! FITT Frequency Intensity Time Type

📑 Qualitative study among patients with #HCC treated with locoregional therapies 🔵Post-treatment symptoms are common and often severe 🔵Patients express interest in post-treatment PRO monitoring #LiverTwitter #OpenAccess journals.lww.com/hepcomm/fullte…

Congrats to UNC Gastroenterology super🌟 Gabi Ritaccio & team on this scoping review of values elicitation tools for treatment decisions in HCC revealing many important treatment attributes for patients and providers Thanks to AASLD Foundation for funding support! bmcgastroenterol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

New from DILIN! Amiodarone hepatotoxicity resembles alcohol related liver injury, with steatosis and inflammation Lily Dara Raj VuppaLanchi sidbarritt4 Amiodarone and Dronedarone Causes Liver Injury with Distinctly Different Clinical Presentations pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38416280/

We had the privilege to host the great Jasmohan Bajaj for grand rounds UNC Gastroenterology ! Lots of learning about💩 and the🧠!

~99% of patients diagnosed with NAFLD in the Target RWE ✨💊🔬 pragmatic real-world cohort meet MASLD criteria. Inferences made from NAFLD research are applicable to patients with MASLD.

Congratulations to Chirag Desai, MD, FACS, named Triangle Business Journal's Surgeon of the Year! Dr. Desai is the Division Chief of Abdominal Transplant Surgery. Read more: go.unc.edu/DesaiTBJ UNC School of Medicine UNC Hospitals

MASLD has a critical unmet need for better pharmacotherapy, but lifestyle intervention will remain the cornerstone of treatment. It takes a team based multidisciplinary approach!

Please come see UNC Gastroenterology at Digestive Disease Week. Here is a link to all of our presentations including a number by our talented #fellows and other trainees! Millie Long Edward Barnes MD MPH Neil Shah, MD Nick Shaheen #DDW2024 go.unc.edu/ddw24

Congrats to ⁦UNCGIFellowship⁩ ⁦UNC Gastroenterology⁩ graduates 2024! We celebrated an amazing class of 9 (!!!) graduates who will go on to great things in #GI! ⁦Neil Shah, MD⁩ ⁦Edward Barnes MD MPH⁩ ⁦Nick Shaheen⁩

Congrats to our UNC Liver Center transplant hepatology graduates Sasha and Luke! Great careers ahead for both of you!

We are thrilled to have our new #Gastroenterology and #Hepatology fellows with us and our #AdvancedFellows starting their years! Looking forward to seeing what these talented individuals accomplish! UNC Gastroenterology Millie Long Edward Barnes MD MPH Neil Shah, MD Nick Shaheen sidbarritt4 Oren Fix

A practical guide for the use of resmetirom from sidbarritt4 UNC Liver Center UNC Gastroenterology No liver biopsy required!

Great afternoon out to see Dr. Glaucomflecken and Lady Glaucomflecken (she/her) inaugural show #wifeanddeath! Great comedy and heartfelt account of challenges that drive humor!

Check out this great review of HDS DILI hot off the press! Commonly implicated agents include, green tea, garcinia cambogia, kratom, ashwagandha and turmeric. Challenges in herbal-induced liver injury identification and prevention pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39136211/

This paper recently highlighted in Women's Health finds that ~5% of the US population use potentially harmful HDS like turmeric, green tea and ashwagandha. Estimated Exposure to 6 Potentially Hepatotoxic Botanicals in US Adults pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39102266/

Check out this zoom meeting on September 12 at 11am ET. Long term outcomes and experiences from the LATINDILI Hepatotoxicity registry!