Session 1: Hepatic immunology

Scheduled time: 10:00 - 11:30 AM on 5/10/19

Time Topic Speaker Chairpersons

10:30 - 10:50 Principles of Vineet Ahuja Rakesh Tandon
clinical Brij Sharma
immunology P K Sharma
10:50 - 11:10 Unique aspects SK Acharya Rajan Dhingra
of hepatic
immunity
11:10 - 11:30 Pathogenesis of Abhijit
Autoimmune Chowdhury
hepatitis: An
immunological
jigsaw

Speakers brief CV:

 Dr Vineet Ahuja : Professor, Department of Gastroenterology, AIIMS, New
Delhi. He is editor of Journal of Tropical gastroenterology.

 Dr Subrat Kumar Acharya: Former HoD, Department of Gastroenterology,

AIIMS, New Delhi. He now serves as the Pro Chancellor, KIIT University,
Bhubaneswar and HOD, Gastroenterology and Hepatology, PBMH KIMS
(KIIT University) and Executive Director of Gastroenterology and
Hepatology at Fortis Flt. Lt. Rajan Dhall Hospital, Delhi.

 Dr Abhijit Chowdhury: Professor & Head, Department of Hepatology,

Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education & Research, Kolkata. He is
secretary- Liver Foundation West Bengal & Indian Institute of liver &
Digestive Diseases, Calcutta.
 Session 2: Case based discussion
Scheduled time: 12:00 – 13:00 on 5/10/19

12:00 – 13:00 Intricacies and Moderator: Panelists:

controversies in Yogesh Chawla CE Eapen
diagnosis of Siddharth Dutta Gupta
autoimmune Presenter: Harshad Devarbhavi
hepatitis Usha Dutta KS Madhusudhan

Speakers brief CV:

 Dr Usha Dutta: Professor of Gastroenterology, PGIMER, Chandigarh. She is

on International Editorial Board of Journal of Gastroenterology &
Hepatology.
 Session 3: Autoimmune hepatitis
Scheduled time: 14:00 - 16:00 on 5/10/19

14:00 - Immunotherapy in Radha K Dhiman M P Sharma Manisha

14:20 Autoimmune hepatitis – the Dwiwedi
past failures and the future S L Broor
prospects Sanjeev
14:20 - Acute on chronic liver Rakhi Maiwall Sachdeva
14:40 failure in autoimmune Ajay Kumar
hepatitis – a rare but
fulminant entity
14:40 - Autoimmune hepatitis in Anil C Anand
14:50 special populations –
Pregnancy and Elderly

Speakers brief CV:

 Dr Radha K Dhiman: Prof & Head, Department of Hepatology, PGIMER,

Chandigarh. He is Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Clinical and Experimental
Hepatology.

 Dr Rakhi Maiwall: Assistant Professor of Hepatology in the Institute of

Liver and Biliary Sciences, New Delhi. She is member of the editorial board
of Hepatology International Journal.

 Dr Anil C Anand: Former HoD, Gastroenterology and Hepatobiliary Unit,

Army Hospital R & R, New Delhi. Currently he is senior Consultant,
Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Indraprastha Apollo
Hospital, New Delhi.
 Session 3: Autoimmune hepatitis
Scheduled time: 14:50 - 15:20 on 5/10/19

14:50 – 15:00 Autoimmune hepatitis in Abha Nagral D K Bhargava

pediatric population G S Lamba
Sandeep Thareja
15:00 - 15:20 Pitfalls in diagnosis of CE Eapen Randhir Sud
seronegative autoimmune
hepatitis and its relevance in
India

Speakers brief CV:

 Dr Abha Nagral: consultant Gastroenterologist and Hepatologist (Liver

Specialist) at Jaslok and Fortis Hospitals. She is a governing Council member
of the Indian Association of the Study of Liver (INASL).

 Dr CE Eapen: Professor & Head, Department of Gastroenterology &

Hepatology, Christian Medical College, Vellore.
 Session 3: Autoimmune hepatitis
Scheduled time: 14:50 - 15:20 on 5/10/19

15:20 – 16:00 Case based discussion Presenter: Panelists:

(overlap syndrome) Ajay Duseja Gaurav Pandey
S P Misra
Moderator: Sunil Taneja
Siddharth Dutta
Gupta

Speakers brief CV:

 Dr Ajay Duseja: Professor, Department of Hepatology, PGIMER,

Chandigarh. He is member of editorial board of Journal of Clinical and
Experimental Hepatology.
 Session 4: Primary sclerosing cholangitis
Scheduled time: 16:30 - 18:00 on 5/10/19

Case discussion (Primary Presenter: Panelists:

16:30 - 17:20 sclerosing cholangitis) Akash Shukla Uday Zachariah
Vikas Singla
Suneel Chakravarty
Ashish Kumar

Primary sclerosing Vikram Bhatia Monika Jain

17:20 - 17:40 cholangitis: Whom, when Preeti Rajpoot
and how to treat Sawan Bopanna
Rajesh Puri

Speakers brief CV:

 Dr Akash Shukla: Prof & HoD, Dept of Gastroenterology, Lokmanya Tilak
Municipal Medical College, Mumbai.

 Dr Vikram Bhatia: Professor, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, New

Delhi. He received outstanding Young Gastroenterologist Award by World
Endoscopy Organization (WEO) in 2014 and many other awards.
 QUIZ

9:00 – 9:30 AM

Samir shah and

Akash Shukla
 Session 5: Overlap syndromes

Scheduled time: 9:30 - 10:30 AM on 6/10/19

9:30 - 9:50 Primary biliary cirrhosis- A

Y K Joshi
rare disease with limited Vivek A
V K Gupta
options in our scenario? Saraswat
Siddhartha
Srivastava
9:50 - 10:10 IgG4 cholangiopathy- Surinder Rana Bhaskar Nandi
challenges in diagnosis
10:10 - 10:30 Imaging in autoimmune liver Raju Sharma
diseases

Speakers brief CV:

 Dr Vivek A Saraswat: Prof & Head of Department of Gastroenterology,
Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow

 Dr Surinder Rana: Professor, Department of Gastroenterology, PGIMER,

Chandigarh

 Dr Raju Sharma: Professor, Department of Radiology, AIIMS, New Delhi. He

is serving as an editorial member of several international reputed journals.
 Session 5: Liver Transplant in AIH

Scheduled time: 11:00 – 12:00 on 6/10/19

11:00 - 11:20 Liver transplantation in Sanjiv Saigal

autoimmune hepatitis-
Indian scenario
11:20 - 11:40 Post-transplant Manav Peush Sahni
immunosuppression and Wadhawan
recurrence- what’s in the Yogesh Batra
armamentarium?
11:40 - 12:00 Dharmesh V Pamecha
Post-transplant recurrence- Kapoor
Biliary complications post N R Dash
liver transplant

Speakers brief CV:

 Dr Sanjiv Saigal: Director - Transplant Hepatology Institute of Digestive and
Hepatobiliary Sciences, Medanta

 Dr Manav Wadhawan: Director & Head of Hepatology services at BLK Liver

& Digestive Diseases Institute in Delhi

 Dr Dharmesh Kapoor: Consultant Hepatologist at Global Hospitals,

Hyderabad. He is involved in one of the largest liver transplant programs in
South India.
 Session 7: Potpurri

Scheduled time: 9:30 - 10:30 AM on 6/10/19

12:20 - 12:20 Drug induced hepatitis vs Harshad

P Kar
Autoimmune hepatitis Devarbhavi
A S Puri
J C Vij
12:20 - 12:40 Regenerative therapy in liver Virendra Singh Arvind
disease- from bench to Khurana
bedside Kaushal
Madan

Speakers brief CV:

 Dr Harshad Devarbhavi: Professor and Head of the Department of

Gastroenterology at St. John's Medical College and Hospital, Bangalore

 Dr Virendra Singh: Professor, Department of Gastroenterology, PGIMER,

Chandigarh. He is member of editorial board of World Journal of
Gastroenterology