Endoscopy Live Demonstration from Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong
Endoscopy
Room N101A
09:00 - 10:30
09:00
Topic TBC
State Key Lab Meeting cum the 4th Annual Conference of Asia Pacific Microbiota Consortium (1): Microbiome and Cancer
Hepatology
Room N101B
09:00 - 10:30
Chair: Mathias Heikenwälder
09:00
Topic TBC
09:25
Helicobacter pylori and colorectal cancer – Is it all microbiome l
Markus GERHARD
09:50
Topic TBC
10:15
Q & A
GUT-IDDF Young Investigator Award: Oral Presentation I
Room N102 & 3
09:00 - 10:30
Chair: Jun YU
09:00
GUT-IDDF Young Investigator Award: Oral Presentation I
Liver Session (1) - Practical Management of Steatotic Liver Disease
Hepatology
Room N111 & 12
09:00 - 10:30
Chair: Vincent WONG, Terry YIP
09:00
Case presentation (a patient with MetALD and LSM 18 kPa)
Karen LAI
09:05
Assessment of alcohol consumption and transition across subtypes of steatotic liver disease
09:20
Diagnosis and management of clinically significant portal hypertension in obese patients
09:35
Use of GLP-1 receptor agonists in patients with advanced liver disease
Alice KONG
09:50
Debate: Vibration-controlled transient elastography can be used to assess response to GLP-1 receptor agonists in patients with MASLD
Anand KULKARNI
Jimmy LAI
10:15
Q & A
Tea Break
Room N101A
10:30 - 11:00
10:30
Tea Break
Tea Break
Room N101B
10:30 - 11:00
10:30
Tea Break
Tea Break
Room N102 & 3
10:30 - 11:00
10:30
Tea Break
Tea Break
Room N111 & 12
10:30 - 11:00
10:30
Tea Break
Endoscopy Live Demonstration from Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong (2)
Endoscopy
Room N101A
11:00 - 12:30
11:00
Topic TBC
State Key Lab Meeting cum the 4th Annual Conference of Asia Pacific Microbiota Consortium (2): Microbiome/Metabolites, Gut-liver Axis and Liver Diseases
Hepatology
Room N101B
11:00 - 12:30
Chair: Markus GERHARD, Jennifer ZHANG
11:00
Topic TBC
GUT-IDDF Young Investigator Award: Oral Presentation II
Room N102 & 3
11:00 - 12:30
11:00
GUT-IDDF Young Investigator Award: Oral Presentation II
Liver Session (2) - Hepatology Updates: What’s New at International Conferences and Major Journals?
Hepatology
Room N111 & 12
11:00 - 12:30
Chair: Michael KO, Henry LIU
11:00
HBV in Focus: Key updates from APASL & EASL 2026
11:25
What can we learn from the Baveno VIII consensus
11:50
Advances in autoimmune and cholestatic liver diseases
12:15
Q & A
Lunch Symposium (A)
Endoscopy
Room N101A
12:30 - 14:00
12:30
Topic TBC
Lunch Symposium (B): IBD
Gastroenterology
Room N101B
12:30 - 14:00
12:30
Topic TBC
Opening Ceremony
Room N101B
14:00 - 14:20
14:00
Opening Ceremony
Dr S H Ho Memorial Lecture
Room N101B
14:20 - 14:50
14:20
Topic TBC
Joseph Sung Distinguished Lecture
Room N101B
14:50 - 15:20
14:50
Endo-Histo-Barrier-Omics and AI: Towards a New Era of Precision Disease
Marietta LACUCCI
Tea Break
Room N101B
15:20 - 15:50
15:20
Tea Break
Tea Break
Room N101A
15:20 - 15:50
15:20
Tea Break
Liver Session (3) - Cirrhosis and Portal Hypertension
Hepatology
Room N101A
15:50 - 17:20
Chair: Michael LI
15:50
Expanding recompensation criteria to all liver disease aetiologies: Insights from Baveno VIII consensus
16:15
Antibiotics prophylaxis in cirrhosis: Is it still valid?
Jimmy LAI
16:40
Dissecting the interplay between circulatory alteration and systemic inflammation in cirrhosis and ACLF
Anand KULKARNI
17:05
Q & A
IBD Session (1) - Breaking Barriers in IBD
Hepatology
Room N101B
15:50 - 17:20
15:50
Topic TBC
JGH-IDDF Case / Video Champion: Oral Presentation
Room N102 & 3
15:50 - 18:20
15:50
JGH-IDDF Case / Video Champion: Oral Presentation
Liver Session (4) – Management of Viral Hepatitis
Hepatology
Room N101A
17:20 - 18:20
Chair: Rashid LUI, Wai-kay SETO
17:20
The updated HBV guidelines – APASL, AASLD, CSH, EASL, WHO, and more