New Guidance for the Diagnosis, Treatment and Management of Wilson Disease

Exciting news for Wilson disease! It's a first: a guidance that balances scientific data with expert experience to help doctors better spot this bewildering genetic liver disease and give patients the best possible care.

This new Wilson Disease Guidance, is the most up-to-date communication yet, that’s published by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, or AASLD. It provides the latest scientific information on diagnosis, treatment and monitoring – with the added bonus of expert opinion. It was put together by an international team of 9 experts in Wilson disease...a team that not only included liver specialists – but also a copper expert, dietitian, neurologist and psychiatrist.

Moderator: Rhonda Rowland is a medical journalist,
filmmaker, WDA board member and patient.

Speakers: Michael Schilsky, MD and Eve Roberts, MD,
PhD, co-led a team of specialists to create new practice
guidance on Wilson disease for the American Association
for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD).
Dr. Schilsky directs the Liver Transplant program and
WD Center of Excellence at the Yale Medical Center.
Dr.
Roberts specializes in pediatric liver disease and was on
the Toronto team that identified the WD gene.