SASL School of Hepatology

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2026 - Course Number 54
Monday, 7 Dec 2026
    2026 - Course Number 53
    Monday, 14 Sep 2026
      2026 - Course Number 52
      Monday, 15 Jun 2026
      • SASL Hepatology News
        David Semela
        Health Ostschweiz HOCH
      • New Recommendations BAVENO VIII Consensus
        Thomas Reiberger
        AKH Vienna
      • Management of Alcohol-related Liver Disease
        Susana Gomes Rodrigues
        Inselspital Bern
      2026 - Course Number 51
      Monday, 9 Mar 2026
      • SASL Hepatology News
        David Semela
        HOCH St. Gallen
      • Palliative Care in Advanced Chronic Liver Disease Patients
        Ben Hudson
        Exeter UK
      • Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis: Emerging Therapies
        Andreas Kremer
        University Hopsital Zurich
      2025 - Course Number 50
      Monday, 15 Dec 2025
      Video Link available for SASL members
      • SASL Hepatology News
        David Semela
        HOCH St. Gallen
      • Liver Disease in Pregnancy
        Montserrat Fraga
        University Hospital Lausanne
      • Advances in MASLD Treatment
        David Semela
        HOCH St. Gallen
      2025 - Course Number 49
      Monday, 15 Sep 2025
      Video Link available for SASL members
      • SASL Hepatology News
        David Semela
        HOCH St. Gallen
      • Hepatic Encephalopathy: Assessment & Management
        Debbie Shawcross
        Kings College London
      • Cirrhosis & Coagulation: Bleeding Risk From Invasive Procedures
        Pierre-Emmanuel Rautou
        Hopital Beaujon Paris
      2025 - Course Number 48
      Monday, 16 Jun 2025
      Video Link available for SASL members
      • SASL Hepatology News
        David Semela
        HOCH St. Gallen
      • Wilson Disease: Diagnostics and Therapy
        Isabelle Mohr
        University of Heidelberg
      • HCC: What’s new in the 2025 EASL Guidelines?
        Bruno Sangro
        University of Pamplona
      2025 - Course Number 47
      Monday, 17 Mar 2025
      • SASL Hepatology News
        David Semela
        HOCH St. Gallen
      • TIPS: Indications and Peri-interventional Management
        Dominique Thabut
        Sorbonne University, Paris
      • Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure
        Christine Bernsmeier
        University Hospital Basel
      2024 - Course Number 46
      Monday, 16 Dec 2024
      Video Link available for SASL members
      • SASL Hepatology News
        David Semela
        Kantonsspital St. Gallen
      • Management of Portal Vein Thrombosis
        Andrea De Gottardi
        Kantonsspital Luzern
      • MASLD & Metabolic Syndrome Pandemic
        Jonas Ludvigsson
        Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
      2024 - Course Number 45
      Monday, 16 Sep 2024
      • SASL Hepatology News
        David Semela
        Kantonsspital St. Gallen
      • Autoimmune Liver Diseases: Update 2024
        Maria Londono
        Hospital Clinic Barcelona
      • Adverse event in contrast-enhanced ultrasound
        Alexander Kueres-Wiese
        Kantonsspital St. Gallen
      2024 - Course Number 44
      Monday, 17 Jun 2024
      • SASL Hepatology News
        David Semela
        Kantonsspital St. Gallen
      • Novel Diagnostic and Therapeutic Approaches in Cholestatic Liver Disease
        Andreas Kremer
        University Hospital Zurich
      • Hepatocellular Carcinoma Therapy: Update 2024
        Anna Saborowski
        Medizinische Hochschule Hannover
      2024 - Course Number 43
      Monday, 18 Mar 2024
      • SASL Hepatology News
        David Semela
        Kantonsspital St. Gallen
      • Hepatitis Delta
        Francesco Negro
        University Hospital Geneva
      • Fontan-Associated Liver Disease
        Patrick S. Kamath
        Mayo Clinic Rochester
      2023 - Course Number 42
      Monday, 11 Dec 2023
      • SASL hepatology news
        David Semela
        St. Gallen
      • Viral Hepatitis: Update 2023
        Darius Moradpour
        Lausanne
      • Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease: Diagnosis and Treatment
        Philipp Mathurin
        Lille
      2023 - Course Number 41
      Monday, 11 Sep 2023
      • SASL hepatology news
        David Semela
        St. Gallen
      • Liver Histology: What a Hepatologist Needs to Know
        Achim Weber
        Zurich
      • Hepatorenal Syndrome: Diagnostics and Treatment
        Florence Wong
        Toronto
      2023 - Course Number 40
      Monday, 12 Jun 2023
      • SASL hepatology news
        David Semela
        St. Gallen
      • NAFLD and Metabolic Syndrome Pandemic: What Went Wrong and What Can We Do About It?
        Robert Lustig
        San Francisco
      • TIPS: Why, When and in Whom?
        Virginia Hernandez-Gea
        Barcelona
      2023 - Course Number 39
      Monday, 13 Mar 2023
      • SASL hepatology news
        David Semela
        St. Gallen
      • Vaccinations in Liver Disease and After Transplantation
        Andreas Cerny
        Ticino
      • Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in 2023
        Markus Heim
        Basel
      2022 - Course Number 38
      Monday, 12 Dec 2022
      • SASL news
        David Semela
        St. Gallen
      • Coffee and liver health
        David Semela
        St. Gallen
      • Management of NAFLD/NASH
        Nicolas Goossens
        Geneva
      • Echinococcosis: diagnostics and management
        Beat Müllhaupt
        Zurich
      2022 - Course Number 37
      Monday, 12 Sep 2022
      • SASL news
        David Semela
        St. Gallen
      • Fructose and sugar: major drivers of the liver disease pandemic
        David Semela
        St. Gallen
      • Portal and mesenteric vein thrombosis
        Andrea De Gottardi
        Lugano
      • Viruses and the liver: an amazing journey
        Francesco Negro
        Geneva
      2022 - Course Number 36
      Monday, 13 Jun 2022
      • SASL News
        David Semela
        St. Gallen
      • Cholangiocarcinoma: diagnosis and treatment
        Jesus Banales
        San Sebastian
      • Acute-on-chronic liver failure: clinical management
        Patrick Kamath
        Rochester
      2022 - Course Number 35
      Monday, 14 Mar 2022
      • SASL News
        David Semela
        St. Gallen
      • COVID-19 and the liver
        Beat Müllhaupt
        Zurich
      • BCLC staging system – the 2022 HCC update
        Maria Reig
        Barcelona
      2021 - Course Number 34
      Monday, 13 Dec 2021
      • SASL hepatology news
        David Semela
        St. Gallen
      • Pediatric liver disease
        Valerie McLin
        HUG Geneva
      • Management of portal hypertension - news from BAVENO VII
        Annalisa Berzgotti
        Inselspital Bern
      2021 - Course Number 33
      Monday, 13 Sep 2021
      • SASL hepatology news
        David Semela
        St. Gallen
      • Viral hepatitis update 2021
        Francesco Negro
        HUG Geneva
      • Systemic treatment of HCC
        Maria Reig
        Barcelona
      2021 - Course Number 32
      Monday, 14 Jun 2021
      • SASL hepatology news
        David Semela
        St. Gallen
      • TIPS: What a hepatologist needs to know
        Juan-Carlos Garcia-Pagan
        Barcelona
      • Diagnostics and treatment of Wilson disease
        Peter Ferenci
        Vienna
      2021 - Course Number 31
      Monday, 15 Mar 2021
      • SASL hepatology news
        David Semela
        St. Gallen
      • Primary biliary cholangitis: Update 2021
        Gideon Hirschfield
        Toronto
      • Pharmacological treatment of NASH
        Arun Sanyal
        Virginia, USA
      2020 - Course Number 30
      Monday, 14 Dec 2020
      • SASL hepatology news
        David Semela
        St. Gallen
      • COVID-19 Vaccination: What you and your patients need to know
        David Semela
        St. Gallen
      • Portal hypertension update 2020
        Guadalupe Garcia-Tsao
        Yale, VA-CT, New Haven (USA)
      2020 - Course Number 29
      Monday, 14 Sep 2020
      • SASL hepatology news
        David Semela
      • Viral hepatitis update 2020
        Heiner Wedemeyer
        Hannover
      • Hepatocellular carcinoma: Systemic treatment options
        Alejandro Forner
        Barcelona
      2020 - Course Number 28
      Monday, 15 Jun 2020
      • SASL hepatology news
        David Semela
        St. Gallen
      • COVID-19 and the liver
        Thomas Berg
        Leipzig
      • Management of polycystic liver disease
        Joost Drenth
        Nijmegen
      2020 - Course Number 27
      Monday, 16 Mar 2020
      • SASL hepatology news
        David Semela
        St. Gallen
      • Lysosomal acid lipase deficiency (LAL-D)
        David Semela
        St. Gallen
      • Nutrition in liver cirrhosis
        Shira Zelber-Sagi
        Haifa / Israel
      2019 - Course Number 26
      Monday, 9 Dec 2019
      • SASL hepatology news
        David Semela
        St. Gallen
      • Drug-induced liver disease
        David Semela
        St. Gallen
      • Portal hypertension - Update 2019
        Jaime Bosch
        Bern
      2019 - Course Number 25
      Monday, 9 Sep 2019
      • SASL hepatology
        David Semela
        St. Gallen
      • Acute-on-chronic liver failure
        Florent Artru
        Lausanne
      • Nutrition in chronic liver disease
        Shira Zelber-Sagi
        Haifa / Israel
      2019 - Course Number 24
      Monday, 17 Jun 2019
      • SASL hepatology news
        David Semela
        St. Gallen
      • Hepatitis Delta
        Magdalena Filipowicz Sinnreich
        Basel / Liestal
      • Hepatocellular adenoma
        Christine Sempoux
        Lausanne
      2019 - Course Number 23
      Monday, 11 Mar 2019
      • SASL hepatology news
        David Semela
        St. Gallen
      • Liver disease in pregnancy
        Montserrat Fraga
        CHUV, Lausanne
      • Systemic HCC therapies in 2019
        Jordi Bruix
        BCLC, Barcelona
      2018 - Course Number 22
      Monday, 10 Dec 2018
      • SASL hepatology news
        David Semela
        St. Gallen
      • Echinococcosis
        Beat Müllhaupt
        University Hospital Zurich
      • Hemochromatosis
        Markus Heim
        University Hospital Basel
      2018 - Course Number 21
      Monday, 10 Sep 2018
      • SASL hepatology news
        David Semela
        St. Gallen
      • Wilson disease
        David Semela
        St. Gallen
      • Systemic HCC therapies in 2018
        Chris Verslype
        Leuven, Belgium
      2018 - Course Number 20
      Monday, 11 Jun 2018
      • SASL hepatology news
        David Semela
        St. Gallen
      • Primary sclerosing cholangitis and cholangiocarcinoma
        Joachim Mertens
        Zurich
      • Primary biliary cholangitis: diagnostics and therapy 2018
        Peter Fickert
        Graz, Austria
      2018 - Course Number 19
      Monday, 12 Mar 2018
      • SASL hepatology news
        David Semela
        Kantonsspital St. Gallen
      • HCV therapy in 2018
        Jean-Michel Pawlotsky
        Hôpital Henri Mondor at Université Paris XII, Creteil, France
      • Autoimmune hepatitis
        David Semela
        Kantonsspital St. Gallen
      2017 - Course Number 18
      Monday, 11 Dec 2017
      • Management focal liver lesions
        Maria Guarino
        Inselspital Bern
      • Living donor liver transplantation
        Philipp Dutkowski
        University Hospital Zurich
      • NAFLD: Workup and management
        Nicolas Goossens
        University Hospital Geneva
      2017 - Course Number 17
      Monday, 11 Sep 2017
      • SASL hepatology news
        David Semela
        Kantonsspital St. Gallen
      • SIRT in HCC
        Bruno Sangro
        Clinica Unversidad de Navarra, Spain
      • HCV update 2017
        Beat Müllhaupt
        University Hospital Zurich
      2017 - Course Number 16
      Monday, 12 Jun 2017
      • Idiopathic portal hypertension
        Jeoffrey Schouten
        Ghent (Belgium)
      • TIPS: Indications and contraindications
        Juan Carlos Garcia-Pagan
        Barcelona (Spain)
      • Hepatopulmonary syndrome
        David Semela
        Kantonsspital St. Gallen
      2017 - Course Number 15
      Monday, 13 Mar 2017
      • Nodular regenerative hyperplasia
        David Semela
        Kantonsspital St. Gallen
      • Non-invasive assessment of cirrhosis and portal hypertension
        Annalisa Berzigotti
        Inselspital Berne
      • Management of chronic hepatitis B: focus on reactivation
        Nasser Semmo
        Inselspital Berne
      2016 - Course Number 14
      Monday, 12 Dec 2016
      • Preoperative considerations in cirrhotics
        David Semela
        Kantonsspital St. Gallen
      • NASH update 2016
        Jean-Francois Dufour
        Inselspital Berne
      • Hot topics of the Swiss hepatitis strategy
        Philip Bruggmann
        ARUD Zurich
      2016 - Course Number 13
      Monday, 12 Sep 2016
      • Management of refractory ascites
        Andrea de Gottardi
        Inselspital Berne
      • HCC resection
        Christian Toso
        University Hospital of Geneva
      • HCV update 2016
        Darius Moradpour
        University Hospital of Lausanne
      2016 - Course Number 12
      Monday, 13 Jun 2016
      • Acute liver failure
        Charalambos Antoniades
        King s college, London
      • Primary biliary cholangitis
        Benedetta Terziroli
        Epatocentro Ticino, Lugano
      • Porto-pulmonary hypertension and hepato-pulmonary syndrome
        David Semela
        Kantonsspital St. Gallen
      2016 - Course Number 11
      Monday, 14 Mar 2016
      • Intermediate stage HCC: therapeutic considerations
        Alejandro Forner
        Hospital Clinic Barcelona
      • HBV reactivation in cancer patients
        David Semela
        Kantonsspital St. Gallen
      2015 - Course Number 10
      Monday, 14 Dec 2015
      • Hepatocellular carcinoma
        Jean-Francois Dufour
        Inselspital, Bern
      • Schistosomiasis of the liver
        David Semela
        Kantonsspital St. Gallen
      • Immunisation in patients with liver disease
        Matthias Hoffmann
        Kantonsspital St. Gallen
      2015 - Course Number 9
      Monday, 31 Aug 2015
      • Autoimmune hepatitis
        David Semela
        Kantonsspital St. Gallen
      • Non-invasive assessment of liver fibrosis
        Annalisa Berzigotti
        Inselspital Bern
      • HCV therapy in 2015
        Beat Muellhaupt
        University Hopsital Zurich
      2015 - Course Number 8
      Monday, 8 Jun 2015
      • Management of Variceal Bleeding
        Reiner Wiest
        Inselspital Bern
      • Drug-induced Liver Disease
        Guido Stirnimann
        Inselspital Bern
      • Cholestatic Liver Disease
        Felix Stickel
        Klinik Beau-Site Bern
      2015 - Course Number 7
      Monday, 16 Mar 2015
      • Hepatic encephalopathy
        Pierre Deltenre
        Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne
      • Liver disease in HIV patients
        Andreas Cerny
        Epatocentro Ticino, Lugano
      • Hepatitis D (Delta) virus
        Francesco Negro
        University Hospital Geneva
      2014 - Course Number 6
      Monday, 15 Dec 2014
      • Hemochromatosis
        Markus Heim
        University Hospital Basel
      • Echinococcosis
        Beat Muellhaupt
        University Hospital Zurich
      • Alcoholic liver disease
        Felix Stickel
        Klinik Beau-Site Bern
      2014 - Course Number 5
      Monday, 1 Sep 2014
      • Management of portal vein thrombosis
        Laurent Spahr
        Hopitaux Universitaires de Geneve
      • Liver disease in alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency
        David Semela
        Kantonsspital St. Gallen
      • Hepatitis C therapy: Update 2014
        Francesco Negro
        Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology and of Clinical Pathology, University Hospital Geneva
      • Clinical pearls in hepatology: A case of focal nodular hyperplasia (FNH)
        Gian-Marco Semadeni
        Kantonsspital St. Gallen
      2014 - Course Number 4
      Monday, 2 Jun 2014
      • Acute and chronic hepatitis E
        Darius Moradpour
        Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne
      • Vascular liver disease: SOS, NRH, BCS and Osler Disease
        David Semela
        Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen
      • Liver transplantation
        Beat Muellhaupt
        University Hospital Zurich
      • Clinical pearls in hepatology: A case of cholangiocarcinoma
        Joachim Mertens
        University Hopsital Zurich
      2014 - Course Number 3
      Monday, 31 Mar 2014
      • What a gastroenterologist needs to know about liver histology
        Luigi Terracciano
        Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Basel
      • Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis
        Markus Heim
        University Hospital Basel
      • Focal liver lesions
        Jean-Francois Dufour
        Inselspital Bern
      2013 - Course Number 2
      Monday, 16 Dec 2013
      • HBV: Diagnostics and treatment
        Francesco Negro
        University Hospital Geneva
      • HCC: RFTA and TACE
        Lukas Hechelhammer
        Radiologie, Kantonsspital St.Gallen
      • Assessment and management of portal hypertension
        Andrea De Gottardi
        Inselspital Bern
      • Clinical pearls in hepatology: Divination and hepatoscopy
        David Semela
        Kantonsspital St.Gallen
      2013 - Course Number 1
      Monday, 30 Sep 2013
      • HCV therapy in 2013
        Darius Moradpour
        Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne
      • Morbus Wilson
        David Semela
        Kantonsspital St.Gallen
      • Clinical pearls in hepatology: HBV reactivation and sirolimus toxicity
        Semmo Nasser
        Inselspital Bern
      • SASL Hepatology News
        David Semela
        Kantonsspital St. Gallen

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