09:20 Registration and Coffee

09.50 Welcome and Introduction - Professor Stefan Hübscher, Birmingham Clinical Indications and General Approaches to Liver Biopsy Interpretation

10.00 Patterns of abnormal LFTs and their differential diagnosis – Professor Matthew Cramp, Plymouth

10:25 Indications for liver biopsy in investigating common medical liver diseases - what information is required from a liver biopsy report? – Dr Steve Ryder, Nottingham

10:50 Coffee

11:20 How to handle liver biopsy speciments - specimen fixation, processing and staining methods - Dr Alberto Quaglia, Kings College Hospital, London

11:45 Basic patterns of liver damage - what information can a liver biopsy provide and what clinical information does the pathologist need? – Professor Rob Goldin, Imperial College, London

12:10 Lunch Clinico- Pathological Assessment of Common Medical Liver Diseases

13:10 Fatty liver disease – Dr Judy Wyatt & Dr Mervyn Davies, Leeds 13:55 Chronic biliary disease – Dr Sue Davies & Dr Bill Griffiths, Cambridge

14:40 Tea

15:10 Chronic hepatitis - viral and autoimmune– Dr Chris Bellamy & Dr Andrew Bathgate,Edinburgh

15:55 Acute hepatitis, including acute liver failure – Professor Stefan Hübscher & Dr Ahmed Elsharkawy, Birmingham

16:40 Panel discussion, Questions and Answers. Concluding remarks and close

Online registration fees
RCPath Members: £185.00
Concessions: £99.00
Non Members: £260.00

The College's address is:

The Royal College of Psychiatrists
21 Prescot Street
London E1 8BB

By Underground

• Aldgate: Circle, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan Lines (5 minutes’ walk)
• Aldgate East: District and Hammersmith & City Lines (7 minutes’ walk)
• Tower Hill: Circle and District Lines (5 minutes’ walk)
• Tower Gateway Station: DLR (5 minutes’ walk)

By train

• Fenchurch Street: (7 minutes’ walk)
• Liverpool Street: (12 minutes' walk or one tube stop to Aldgate or Aldgate East)
• London Bridge: (15 minutes’ walk or take buses RV1 or 40)

Bus routes

The following buses stop near Prescot Street:
15, 25, 40, 42, 67, 78, 100, 115, 135, 205, 254, RV1

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Car parking

(Prescot Street is in the Congestion Charge zone).

• Chamber Street, Royal Mint Street, London E1 8BL – 110 places: £12.00 flat rate from 7.00 am to 7.00pm
• Minories, 1 Shorter Street, London E1 8PL – 401 places: £2.00 an hour from 6.00 am to 7.00 pm
• Royal Mint Street, London E1 8BL – 60 places: £20.00 for 24 hours; £12.00 a day; £50.00 a week.
• Buckle Street, London E1 8EH – multi-storey car park: £5.25 for 2 hours; £7.25 for 5 hours. Also overnight, weekly and annual rates.
• London Whitechapel High Street, Spreadeagle Yard, London E1 7PJ – 100 places: £6.00 for 2 hours; £10.00 for 4 hours.

Cycle stands

Cycle stands are available for guests. Please enquire at reception.

By air

The nearest airports:

• London City airport: Use DLR to Tower Gateway
• Stansted: Express trains from Stansted Airport to Liverpool Street, every 45 minutes. From Liverpool Street, one stop to either Aldgate or Aldgate East.

Travel to airports

• Heathrow: Express train from Heathrow Airport to Paddington Station.
• Gatwick: Express train from Gatwick to Victoria Station.