Surfing the MASH Tsunami
Driving the Discussion in Fatty Liver Disease. Join hepatology researcher and Key Opinion Leader Jörn Schattenberg, Liver Wellness Advocate Louise Campbell, and Forecasting and Pricing Guru Roger Green and a global group of Key Opinion Leaders and patient advocates as they discuss key issues in Fatty Liver disease, including epidemiology, drug development, clinical pathways, non-invasive testing, health economics and regulatory issues, from their own unique perspectives on the Surfing the MASH Tsunami podcast. #MASH #MAFLD #FattyLiver #livertwitter #AASLD #GlobalLiver #NoNASH #EASL
Surfing the MASH Tsunami
S4-E11.6 - From the Vault: #NASHDay 2022 Preview: SurfingNASH Predictions
Last year on Thursday, June 9th we covered #NASHDay 2022, the 5th annual celebration of International NASH Day by the world’s largest liver patient advocacy organization, the Global Liver Institute. To celebrate the occasion, Stephen Harrison joined Jörn Schattenberg, Louise Campbell and Roger Green to comment on one crucial trend or event that most signified what the last year has meant in the Fatty Liver community.
This conversation includes three sections:
- First, Roger discusses the Law of Unintended Consequences in the context of the FDA Complete Response Letter to Intercept Pharmaceuticals over obeticholic acid. This was an event that many feared would bring all momentum around Fatty Liver disease to a standstill but, two years later, has driven real bursts of creative energy and innovative problem solving centered around the disease rather than a drug.
- Second, Stephen and Jörn offer impassioned statements that the providers will never give up on addressing the challenges of NASH, both because, as Stephen describes, it is not in their character and because, as Jörn describes, “this disease is not going away.” As long as people are dying too young from the effects of NASH and HCC, he contends, the fight will continue.
- Finally, Roger asked the panelists for bold predictions about what will have changed before we come together a year from now to celebrate the 6th International NASH Day.