GLI at AASLD
The Global Liver Institute Team participated fully across six days at the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases Conference in Boston, Massachusetts, commonly known as The Liver Meeting(™).
GLI CEO Donna Cryer, JD; COO Richard Gelula, MSW; EU Office Director Livia Alimena; NASH Program Director Jeff McIntyre attended as did GLI Board Members Dennis R. Cryer, MD; Brian Harvey, MD, PhD, Lewis Roberts, MB, ChB, PhD, Rohit Satoskar, MD, and Board Chair, Hillel Tobias, MD.
“The Liver Meeting is one of the cornerstones of our annual calendar, affording us a premier opportunity to offer our patient community insights into key strategic sessions and expand our international partnerships with patient groups, industry partners, and physician leaders,” stated GLI CEO Donna R. Cryer, JD.
Deepening Partnership with AASLD
We have been honored to advise and assist AASLD leadership and staff in implementing the patient engagement element of their strategic plan and proud that our team members have been selected for the following roles to ensure that patient and medical community activities in shaping the liver health environment are aligned:
Donna Cryer, JD
AASLD Patient Advisory Committee, AASLD NAFLD Task Force
Jeff McIntyre
AASLD Practice Guidelines Committee
Andrew Scott
AASLD Policy Committee
By the Numbers
1 - Booth our 1st time exhibiting
5 - Steering Committee or Roundtable meetings valued for our thought leadership
10 - Patient organizations (from Canada, Europe, and USA).
20 - Countries from which we met with representatives of medical, civil society, and patient organizations, clinicians, and researchers
28 - Industry Partners we spoke with pharmaceutical, device, and technology innovators in liver cancer, NASH, transplantation, and virology
100 - attendees interested in GLI activities registered at the booth
Thank you to everyone we met in Boston!
Contact us for more information about participating in International NASH Day 2020 and see you at the EASL International Liver Conference in London (15th - 19th April 2020).
Ben Hainsworth (EASL Managing Director), Donna Cryer (President and CEO, Global Liver Institute), Thomas Berg, MD (EASL Vice Secretary, Head of the Section of Hepatology, Leipzig Poliklinik University, Germany), Livia Alimena (European Office Director, Global Liver Institute), Karen Mazzoli (EASL Head of Business) and Dennis Cryer, MD (Board Member, Global Liver Institute).
Karen Seto (Director, Research and Education, Canadian Liver Foundation), Livia Alimena (European Office Director, Global Liver Institute), Donna Cryer (President and CEO, Global Liver Institute), Gary Fagan (President and CEO, Canadian Liver Foundation) and Dennis Cryer, MD (Global Liver Institute Board Member).
The united patient voice in NASH. Anthony Villiotti and Gina Madison (NASH Knowledge President & Executive Director), Rosemary Wickowski (COO Fatty Liver Foundation), Donna Cryer (President and CEO, Global Liver Institute), Wayne Askridge (Fatty Liver Foundation President).
Dennis Cryer, MD (Board Member, Global Liver Institute)
Robert Mitchell-Thain (PBC Foundation, Head of Education and Development), Livia Alimena (European Office Director, Global Liver Institute), Jeff McIntyre (NASH Programs Director, Global Liver Institute) posted on twitter for AASLD tweets (more than 2500 impressions).