Name: Dr. Alfred Baker 28th Annual Liver Symposium
Start: 2025-10-04
End: 2025-10-04
Location: Hilton Chicago/Oak Brook Hills Resort & Conference Center

OVERVIEW

Dr. Alfred Baker 28th Annual Liver Symposium is organized by Northwestern Memorial HealthCare, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and will be held on Oct 04, 2025 at Hilton Chicago/Oak Brook Hills Resort & Conference Center, Oak Brook, Illinois, United States of America.

Overview:
This interactive educational activity provides a comprehensive update on the care of patients with chronic liver disease. Through expert-led presentations, case-based discussions, and evidence-informed guidance, participants will enhance their management of liver disease in the ICU setting, deepen their understanding of coagulopathy in chronic liver disease, and identify appropriate scenarios for liver transplant in patients with cancer. They will also improve diagnostic approaches to liver lesions, optimize treatment strategies for hepatic encephalopathy, and understand the indications and outcomes of TIPS in cirrhotic patients.

Objectives:

Enhance the care of patients with liver disease in the ICU
Identify coagulopathy in patients with chronic liver disease.
Recall the scenarios in which transplant might be considered for patients with cancer.
Identify how to work up and assess patients with liver lesions.
Improve their management of patients with hepatic encephalopathy.
Recognize the role of TIPS for their patients with cirrhosis.
Discuss supplement use in our patients with chronic liver disease.
Compare and contrast treatment options for patients with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH).

Agenda:

Saturday, October 4, 2025
7:00 AM	Registration and Breakfast
8:00 AM	Welcome Sean W. P. Koppe, MD, and Andres Duarte-Rojo, MD
8:05 AM	Procedures and Bleeding Risk in Cirrhosis: What’s New? Sarang B. Thaker, MD
8:35 AM	Transplant Oncology – Update on Options for Patients with Colon Cancer, Cholangiocarcinoma and Hepatocellular Carcinoma Daniel Borja-Cacho, MD
9:05 AM	The Liver ICU: How Can We Better Care for Cirrhosis? Saad R. Saffo, MD
9:35 AM	Benign Liver Lesions: Diagnostic Approach and Surveillance Laura M. Kulik, MD
10:05 AM	Break
10:20 AM	Overview of LT Program Satish N. Nadig, MD, PhD
10:35 AM	Controversies in TIPS: Primum Non Nocere Justin R. Boike, MD, MPH
11:05 AM	Comprehensive Care of Hepatic Encephalopathy Andres Duarte-Rojo, MD
11:30 AM	Supplements in Liver Disease: What Might Actually Help? Sean W. P. Koppe, MD
11:55 AM	Resmetirom & GLP-1 for MASH Amanda C. Cheung, MD
12:20 PM	Working Lunch
1:00 PM	Adjournment