Tentative Scientific Program

May 18, 2009
08:30 - 09:00	Opening Ceremony		Dr. Masao Omata, Dr. A. Kadir Dökmeci, Dr. İsmail Balık
09.00 - 11.40	Non-responders in Chronic Hepatitis B
	Moderators : Dr. Masao Omata, Dr. Nurdan Tözün
	09:00 - 09:10	Current treatment of chronic hepatitis B: An overview	Dr. George Lau
	09:10 - 09:30	Non-responders in chronic hepatitis B	Dr. Jia Horng Kao
	09:30 - 09:50	Interferon-nonresponders in chronic hepatitis	Dr. Hakan Senturk
	09:50 - 10:20	Coffee Break
	Moderators : Dr. Nancy Leung
	10:20 - 10:40	Resistance to antivirals - molecular mechanisms	Dr. Masashi Mizokami
	10:40 - 11:00	Primary non-response to antivirals in chronic hepatitis B	Dr. Ulus Salih Akarca
	11:00 - 11:20	Resistance to antivirals clinical approach	Dr. Necati Örmeci
	Moderators : Dr. Ji-Dong Jia, Dr. İsmail Balık
	11:20 - 11:40	State-of-the-Art lecture : Current treatment of chronic hepatitis D	Dr.Mario Rizetto
11:40 - 13:30	Corporate Symposium + Lunch
13.30 - 16.30	Non-responders in Chronic Hepatitis C
	Moderators : Dr. Rafael Esteban-Mur, Dr. Sabahattin Kaymakoğlu
	13:30 -13:40	Current treatment of Chronic hepatitis C : An overview	Dr. Rafael Esteban-Mur
	13:40 - 14:00	Non- Responders in chronic hepatitis C	Dr. Shuhei Nishiguchi
	14:00 - 14:20	Molecular basis of non response in HCV	Dr. Nobuyuki Enomoto
	14:20 - 14:40	Viral Factors (viral load and genotypes,etc) in HCV non responders	Dr. Cafer Eroğlu
	14.40 - 15.10	Coffee Break
	Moderators : Dr. Hyo Suk Lee, Dr. İftihar Köksal
	15:10 - 15:30	Host Factors (fibrosis and overweight,etc) in HCV non responders	Dr. Reşat Özaras
	15:30 - 15:50	Treatment of chronic HCV in special patient groups	Dr. Cem Kalaycı
	15:50 - 16:10	New Antivirals for HCV	Dr. J. Michel Pawlotsky
	Moderators : Dr. Paul Kwo, Dr. Abdurrahman Kadayıfçı
	16:10 - 16:30	State of the art lecture : NAFLD the more it changes, the more it looks the same	Dr. Ulrich Leuschner
16:40 - 18:30	Corporate Symposium

May 19, 2009
09.00 - 11.20	Non-responders in cirrhotic patients with complications
	Moderators : Dr. Saeed Hamid, Dr. Abdullah Sonsuz
	09:00 - 09:20	Approach to refractory ascites		Dr. Vincente Arroyo
	09:20 - 09:40	Refractory encephalopathy to conventional therapy		Dr. Shiv Kumar Sarin
	09:40 - 10:00	Non response to medical and endoscopic treatment- TIPS, shunt surgery or radiological interventions		Dr. Jaime Bosch
	Moderators : Dr. Jose Sollano, Dr. Meral Akdoğan
	10:00 - 10:20	Herbal medicines in nonresponders with chronic hepatitis B & C		Dr. Norifumi Kawada
	10:20 - 10:40	Nutrition and non - response to treatment in chronic viral hepatitis		Dr. Isao Sakaida
	10:40 - 11:00	Coffee Break
	Moderators : Dr. Darrell HG Crawford, Dr. Mehmet Haberal
	11:00 - 11:20	State-of-the-Art Lecture : End point of non response : Liver Transplantation		Dr. Munci Kalayoğlu
11.20 - 14.40	Non-responders in Hepatocellular Carcinoma
	Moderators : Dr. Philip Johnson, Dr. Mehmet Öztürk
	11:20 - 11:40	Molecular Pathogenesis in HCC		Dr. Hikmet Akkız
	11:40 - 12:00	Hepatitis B,C viruses & HCC		Dr. Masao Omata
	12:00 - 12:20	Prevention of recurrence after resection and ablation		Dr. Masatoshi Kudo
	12:30 - 14:00	Corporate Symposium + Lunch
	Moderators : Dr. Luigi Bolondi, Dr. Hasan Özkan
	14:00 - 14:20	Efficacy of the ablation therapies		Dr. A. Kadir Dökmeci
	14:20 - 14:40	New therapeutic options for HCC beyond curative treatments		Dr. Jung-Hwan Yoon
14.40 - 18.00	Interactive case discussions
	Moderators : Dr. Patrick Marcellin, Dr. Halis Şimşek
	14:40 - 15:40	Hepatitis Cases	Case Report:		Dr. Hakan Leblebicioğlu, Dr. Hakan Erdem, Dr. Zeki Karasu
			Keypad questions
			Hepatitis Cases : An Overview		Dr. Patrick Marcellin
	15:40 - 16:00	Coffee Break
	Moderators : Dr. Osamu Yokosuka, Dr. Muhammad Umar
	16:00 - 17.00	Liver Cirrhosis Cases	Case Report:	Dr.Ahmet Uygun, Dr. Cemil Savaş, Dr. Ersan Özarslan
			Keypad questions
			Liver Cirrhosis : An Overview	Dr. Osamu Yokosuka
	Moderators : Dr. Shuichiro Shiina, Dr. Yıldıran Songür
	17:00 - 18:00	HCC Cases	Case Report :	Dr.Ahmet Dobrucalı, Dr. Ömer Topalak, Dr. Selim Karayalçın
			Keypad questions
			HCC Cases : An Overview	Dr. Shuichiro Shiina
18:00 - 19:30	Corporate Symposium

MEETING ROOM 2
14.30 – 16.30	FREE PAPER PRESENTATIONS
	Moderators : Dr. Teerha Piratvisuth, Dr. Sait Bağcı
	14:30 - 15:30	Free Paper Presentations
	Moderators : Dr. Vedat Göral, Dr. Murat Tuncer
	15:30 - 16:30	Free Paper Presentations

19.45	Closing Ceremony