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• Initiator
• Aims
• Programme
• Application
• Selection Process
• Accommodation
• Accreditation & CME Credits

Initiator
For the first time, UEGF and EASL join efforts and organize the first UEGF-EASL Professional Trainee Course in 2010!

This joint educational activity on Cholestatic Liver Disease will take place from Thursday evening till Saturday afternoon, July 8-10, 2010 at the Medical Sciences Teaching Centre in Oxford, UK. 100 young fellows in training for Gastroenterology and Hepatology, radiologists, surgeons and physicians in the last year of internal medicine a/o paediatrics training are invited to participate in this high quality educational programme, gaining new insight into some of the most important issues in Gastroenterology and Hepatology of today.

Participants are required to arrive not later as 17:00 on Thursday, July 8, 2010 for onsite registration at Wadham College Oxford www.wadham.ox.ac.uk

Course Managers:
Peter Jansen
Roger Chapman
Lars Aabakken

Aims
The course programme is designed to assist fellows and trainees in gastroenterology and hepatology in expanding their knowledge and developing their skills. State-of-the-art lectures, clinical case presentations and interactive parallel workshops shall train the participants in theoretical analyses and practical methods. A high quality educational training and intense scientific interaction with top experts in the field will be guaranteed.

Sessions will cover latest science and clinical information, including treatment and diagnostic issues and expose candidates to a number of real-life examples. State-of-the-art concepts and procedures will be analyzed to further open discussions and boost a vivid exchange of ideas.

Programme
The components of the programme are a mixture of state-of-the-art lectures and clinical case presentations as well as parallel workshops on ERCP, Endoscopic interventions, Cholestatic liver through the microscope and Drug induced cholestasis.

Successful candidates will be asked to choose two different out of four parallel workshops. The possibility to attend one workshop on Friday and Saturday, July 9 and 10, 2010 will be guaranteed. Selection will be done on a first-come, first-served basis.

Friday, July 9, 2010

09:00-09:10	Introduction
	Peter Jansen, The Netherlands
09:10-11:25	SESSION 1: Primary biliary cirrhosis
09:10-09:35	Primary Biliary Cirrhosis Raoul Poupon, France
09:35-10:00	Epidemiology Oliver James, UK
10:00-10:25	Relevant antibodies in PBC Ulrich Spengler, Germany
10:25-10:55	COFFEE BREAK
10:55-11:25	Case presentations & discussion Speakers to be announced
11:25-12:40	SESSION 2: Primary sclerosing cholangitis (Part I)
11:25-11:50	Primary sclerosing cholangitis, the classical presentation Roger Chapman, UK
11:50-12:15	Small duct PSC, overlap syndrome and IgG4 sclerosing cholangitis Ulrich Beuers, The Netherlands
12:15-12:40	Indications for endoscopic cholangiography and interventional radiology Lars Aabakken, Norway
12:40-13:40	LUNCH BREAK
13:40-15:00	SESSION 2: Primary sclerosing cholangitis (Part II)
13:40-14:05	Atypical and secondary sclerosing cholangitis Frank Lammert, Germany
14:05-14:30	Cholangiocarcinoma, diagnosis and therapy Speaker to be announced
14:30-15:00	Case presentations & discussion Speakers to be announced
15:00-16:00	Parallel Workshop I
Workshop 1	Endoscopic interventions in PSC Lars Aabakken, Norway
Workshop 2	ERCP in difficult bile duct stones Erik Rauws, The Netherlands
Workshop 3	The cholestatic liver through the microscope Alistair Burt, UK; Valeer Desmet, The Netherlands
Workshop 4	Drug induced cholestasis Frank Lammert, Germany
16:00-16:30	TEA BREAK
16:30-17:15	Special Lecture
	"Pathogenesis of Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis, the role of the colon" David Adams, UK

Saturday, July 10, 2010

08:00-10:30	SESSION 3: Primary cholestatic liver disease and cholestasis of pregnancy
08:00-08:25	PSC and Alagille syndrome Speaker to be announced
08:25-08:50	Progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis Richard Thompson, UK
08:50-09:15	How to diagnose pediatric cholestasis? Roderik Houwen, The Netherlands
09:15-09:40	Cholestasis of pregnancy Catherine Williamson, UK
09:40-10:00	COFFEE BREAK
10:00-10:30	Case presentations & discussion Speakers to be announced
10:30-11:30	Parallel Workshop II
Workshop 1	Endoscopic interventions in PSC Lars Aabakken, Norway
Workshop 2	ERCP in difficult bile duct stones Erik Rauws, The Netherlands
Workshop 3	The cholestatic liver through the microscope, Internet Conference Alistair Burt, UK - Stefan Hubscher, UK
Workshop 4	Drug induced cholestasis Frank Lammert, Germany
11:30-12:30	LUNCH BREAK
12:30-14:10	SESSION 4: Management issues
12:30-12:55	Management of extrahepatic complications of cholestatic liver disease Albert Pares, Spain
12:55-13:20	Liver transplantation James Neuberger, UK
13:20-13:45	How the surgeon manages the difficult patient? Speaker to be announced
13:45-14:15	Case presentations Barcelona, Amsterdam, Zurich
14:15-14:30	Conlusions
	Roger Chapman, UK

Application
UEGF and EASL invite young fellows in training, hepatologists, gastroenterologists, radiologists, surgeons, trainees in internal medicine a/o paediatrics training with interest in cholestatic liver disease to apply online

Applicants will be asked to fill in the online application form and upload a short curriculum vitae (1 page) and in addition, applicants are strongly encouraged to submit a clinical case based on some form of cholestasis. Best case submitters will be asked to present their cases onsite and recieve the registration for the course!

Application deadline: May 10, 2010
Early application is encouraged. Apply here!

Selection process
Participation is by selection only. Notification of invitation to participate will be provided via e-mail. In case of being selected, a course fee of EUR 100 has to be paid to confirm the registration. Best case submitters recieve free registration for the course!

A maximum of 100 trainees will be selected. Selection is based on criteria of academic excellence, balance of specialities covered, age and regional and gender representation. The final selection will be done by the responsible course managers. Applicants will be notified via e-mail about their application status by mid May, 2010.

Once the course fee of EUR 100,- is received, UEGF and EASL are happy to provide:

• 2 nights of accommodation at Wadham College (single room) from July 8-10, 2010.
• 2 course dinners with participants and Faculty.
• full course registration (incl. lunches and coffee breaks during the time of the course).
• a course syllabus.

Please note that travel reimbursement cannot be provided. Attendees are responsible for making their own travel arrangements. All selected nominees are required to attend the UEGF-EASL Professional Trainee Course in full (July 8-10, 2010 inclusive).

Accommodation
UEGF will arrange accommodation for successful candidates.

A block of rooms has been reserved at:
Wadham College
Parks Road
Oxford 0X1 3PN
United Kingdom
+44 (0)1865 277900
www.wadham.ox.ac.uk

Accreditation & CME Credits
The UEGF is in the process of seeking approval from the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education in Brussels (EACCME), an institution of the UEMS, to provide EACCME credits for attendance.

For more information please contact
Verena Marlovits at +43 (0)1 997 16 39
or at verena.marlovits@medadvice.co.at