Transplanting Individuals with Alcohol-related Hepatitis: Multidisciplinary Evaluation and Management
Tuesday, December 17, 2019 - 14:00 to 15:00
Speakers:
Robert Brown, MD, MPH • Gladys and Roland Harriman Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY
Akhil Shenoy, MD, MPH • Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University Department of Psychiatry, New York, NY
Moderator:
Michael Curry, MD • Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Objectives for the "Transplanting Individuals with Alcohol-related Hepatitis: Multidisciplinary Evaluation and Management" webinar include enabling the attendee to:
- Appreciate the changing landscape of liver transplantation for patients with alcohol use disorder (AUD) and alcohol related liver disease (ALD).
- Describe the diagnosis of AUD and distinguish the various treatments of AUD and how they work.
- Recognize the key management aspects of and role of transplant evaluation in alcohol-related hepatitis from a medical and psychosocial perspective.
AST would like to thank the Psychosocial and Ethics Community of Practice (PSECOP) for recommending "transplanting individuals with alcoholic hepatitis" as a topic for the 2019-2020 T3 series. Learn more about AST's COPs at www.myast.org/cops.
Education Category:
Series category:
T3: Timely Topics in Transplantion