AASLD/ALEH Joint Symposium

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Recorded On: 11/11/2018

The goal of this program is to highlight the hepatic manifestations of various diseases endemic or epidemic in the Tropics. These diseases include viral A and E hepatitis; hepatic manifestations of viral epidemics like Dengue, SARS, and Zika virus; bacterial infections like typhoid; and parasitic diseases like malaria.

Kenneth Sherman

Harshad Devarbhavi

Maria Cassia Mendes

Edna Strauss

Robert Gish

Robert G. Gish, MD AGAF, FAST, FAASLD is currently an Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the University of Nevada Schools of Medicine in Las Vegas and in Reno. He serves as an Adjunct Professor of Pharmacy at Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at UCSD, a Clinical Professor of Medicine at Loma Linda University as well as a Staff Physician at Loma Linda University’s Liver Transplant Clinic in Las Vegas. In addition, he is also Medical Director of the Asia Pacific Health Foundation in San Diego, CA and of the Hepatitis B Foundation in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. 

Dr. Gish has served on the editorial boards of American Journal of Gastroenterology, HEPATOLOGY, Journal of HepatologyDigestive Diseases and Sciences and Gastroenterology, among many others. He co-authored a public health policy for liver health in Vietnam focusing on HBV and is also assisting with the development of viral hepatitis health care policies in Georgia, Armenia, and the Philippines. He was a major early contributor to decipher methods for the detection of hepatitis B and C virus and characterizing their epidemiology and clinical presentation in humans. He was involved in studies that led to the genotypic classification strategies and methods now in use worldwide. He has published more than 700 original articles, abstracts, and book chapters. Dr. Gish is currently seeing patients in-person and via telemedicine at various clinics in San Diego, San Jose, Santa Rosa, Folsom, Valley Springs and via TeleMed2U.

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Introduction
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Hepatitis A and Hepatitis E
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Liver Failure on Returning from the Tropics: Dengue, Typhoid, Leptospirosis, Malaria
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Open to view video. Presenter: Harshad Devarbhavi
Viral Epidemics and Hepatitis: Zika, Yellow Fever, Dengue Fever
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Open to view video. Presenter: Maria Cassia Mendes
Parasitic Disease and the Liver
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Open to view video. Presenter: Edna Strauss
Prevention of Liver Disease During Travel
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Panel Discussion and Wrap-Up
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