In a conversation from May, 2023, patient advocates patient advocates Mike Betel, Tony Villiotti and Wayne Eskridge joined co-hosts Louise Campbell and Roger Green to share reactions to the Public Comments session of ICER’s report on MASH drugs obeticholic acid and resmetirom.
Jeff Lazarus and the Surfers discuss the upcoming UN event for “Healthy Livers, Healthy Lives,” focusing on MASLD awareness. They explore challenges in educating policymakers, strategies for highlighting MASLD’s impact, and ways listeners can support the initiative.
Healthy Livers, Healthy Lives Chair Jeff Lazarus and the Surfers discuss the value of the updated EASL/EASD/EASO MASLD clinical practice guidelines and explore the role of Big Data in early MASLD screening.
Healthy Livers, Healthy Lives Chair Jeff Lazarus and the Surfers discuss some specific challenges in building global MASLD policy and some local successes.
Healthy Livers, Healthy Lives’ Chair Jeff Lazarus shares with the Surfers the importance of political will in building a consensus for global MASLD public health policy.
In this opening conversation, Healthy LIvers, Healthy Lives Chair Jeff Lazarus discusses the goals of the coalition and two initiative to increase early screening.
Jeff Lazarus, Chair of Healthy Livers, Healthy Lives, joins the Surfers to discuss this global SLD Public Health coalition. and the role of “top-down” solutions.
This week’s vault conversation looks back 17 months to the publication of revised AASLD Practice Guidance.
In this closing conversation, updated MASLD CPG co-authors Frank Tacke and Elisabetta Bugianesi and podcast co-hosts Louise Campbell and Roger Green consider what the guidelines might foretell in changes in provider education, structure of patient visits and treatment in less affluent or medically advanced countries.
For most of this conversation, updated MASLD CPG co-authors Frank Tacke and Elisabetta Bugianesi discuss key issues related to pharmacology and prescribing choices. At the end, the focus shifts to the guidelines’ overall benefits and some new kinds of education they call for.
