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 specimens - 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