From the best and most prolific podcast on Liver Disease by Roger Green, Surfing the Mash Tsunami.
Two Multispecialty February Conferences and Europe Prepares for Resmetirom
SUMMARY:
SurfingMASH kicks off our sixth season in our new format, with three major elements to each episode. This week’s Roundtable and Newsmakers segments focused on two recent conferences that took a multispecialty perspective on the range of medical and psychological issues affecting steatotic liver disease (a new concept specialty: steatology.”) Our Expert this week is our co-host Jörn Schattenberg, discussing the educational and conceptual challenges of readying Europe for the EMA approval of resmetirom later this year.
00:00:00 – Surf’s Up! Season 6 Episode 1
00:03:58 – Introductions and Groundbreakers
Host Roger Green describes the new v2.0 format. He introduces the guests for this month’s Roundtable discussion of the AASLD Emerging Trends conference: co-host Louise Campbell, hepatology KOL and EASL Secretary-General Aleksander Krag, Alcohol Use Disorder and Alcohol Liver Disease patient advocate and Sober Livers patient support organization co-founder Jenn Leigh Jones, and clinical hepatology Alexander Lalos.
00:15:46 – Roundtable: Highlights from the AASLD Emerging Trends Conference, Part 1
The first portion of our Roundtable focuses on the emerging recognition throughout hepatology that MASLD, MetALD and ALD are best described as a disease spectrum, rather than discreet diseases. This has implications for the medical specialties involved in treatment and the entire way we look at this diseases.
00:32:35 – Newsmakers: Arizona Liver Health Institute Chief Medical Officer Naim Alkhouri and Fatty Liver Alliance Founder Mike Betel Discuss the 2025 Deser Liver Conference
Now in its fourth year, the Arizona Liver Health Institute’s Desert Liver Conference has become a major multispecialty event on the Winter conference agenda. Arizona Liver Health Chief Medical Officer and hepatology KOL Naim Akhouri and patient advocate and Fatty Liver Alliance Founder Mike Betel join Roger Green to discuss the conference, including what makes it unique. Listen to Naim introduce a new description of the science of SLD.
00:55:21 – Experts: SurfingMASH co-host and hepatology KOL Jörn Schattenberg joins Roger Green to discuss how Europe is preparing for the launch of resmetirom and his own focus on this issue
Our third co-host, Jörn Schattenberg, could not join the February roundtable discussion. Here, he joins Roger to update listeners on his activities over the past six months. Most of the discussion centers around the necessary steps for Europe to prepare for the launch of resmetirom (anticipated to occur later this year), particularly given that the overall environment is more “siloed.”
01:11;15 – Wrap-up: Roger presents “the shortest Business Report ever”