Recently updated Hepatitis B (HBV) guidelines and what you should know about Hepatitis Delta (HDV)

Presented By: Dr. Robert Gish

Speaker Biography: Dr. Gish was first in Pharmacy School at the University of Kansas and then obtained his medical degree from the University of Kansas Medical School in Kansas City, Kansas. He completed a 3-year internal medicine residency at the University of California, San Diego, and a 4-year gastroenterology and hepatology fellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles which included transplant medicine. Dr. Gish is a fellow of the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease, the American Society of Transplantation and the American College of Physicians. He has served on the editorial boards of American Journal of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Journal of Hepatology, Digestive Diseases and Sciences, and Gastroenterology, among many others. He has co-authored a public health policy for liver health in Vietnam focusing on HBV and is also assisting with the development of viral hepatitis health care policies in Georgia, Armenia, and the Philippines. He was a major early contributor to decipherment methods for the detection of hepatitis B and C virus and characterizing its epidemiology and clinical presentation in humans. He was involved in studies that led to the genotypic classification strategies and methods now in use worldwide. He has published more than 700 original articles, review articles, abstracts, and book chapters. Robert G. Gish, MD, is currently an Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the University of Nevada Schools of Medicine in Las Vegas and in Reno. He serves as an Adjunct Professor of Pharmacy at Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at UCSD and is a Staff Physician at Loma Linda University's Liver Transplant Clinic in Las Vegas. In addition, he is also Medical Director of the Hepatitis B Foundation in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.

Webinar: Recently updated Hepatitis B (HBV) guidelines and what you should know about Hepatitis Delta (HDV)

Webinar Abstract: Participate in this educational webinar to learn about the 2023 updated HBV guidelines and hepatitis Delta. Today's presentation will cover the following topics from the perspective of an Adjunct Professor of Medicine from the University of Medicine Las Vegas:

HBV 5 Line Guideline
Discuss the prevalence of Delta globally and in the US
Describe the natural history of HDV
What, if any are the roles for HDV genotype
Explain what the barriers to Delta testing and linkage to care are
Summarize the new treatments for Delta hepatitis

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