5:00 PM – 5:05 PM | Welcome & Opening Remarks
Speaker: Michael Betel, President & Founder, Fatty Liver Alliance
5:05 PM – 5:30 PM | Understanding Fatty Liver: What’s New and What Matters Most in Primary Care
- MASLD & MASH simplified: clear, practical definitions
- Screening criteria and risk factors
- Brief review of updated guidelines and nomenclature
5:30 PM – 5:50 PM | Primary Care Toolbox: Managing Fatty Liver in Daily Practice
- What labs to order
- How to integrate liver health into patients visits
- FIB-4, FibroScan, ultrasound, ELF, and non-invasive scores: When and how to use them
- Workflow tips – Optimizing efficiency and improving care
5:50 PM – 6:20 PM | The Patient Voice: “I Didn’t Know I Had Liver Disease”
- How patients found out they had MASLD/MASH
- Barriers to care (stigma, confusion, fear)
- What finally worked—and why
- How Primary Care made (or could have made) a difference
6:20 PM – 6:50 PM | Lifestyle Rx: Pearls for a busy Primary Care Practice
- Addressing real world nutritional advice – Practical strategies for Primary Care
- Addressing patient challenges and stigma
- Brief and Practical lifestyle intervention strategies for busy clinics
6:50 PM – 7:20 PM | Integrating Available Medications in Primary Care for management of Fatty Liver disease
- Role of GLP-1s, statins, insulin sensitizers, and upcoming MASH therapies
- Considerations for T2D, obesity, CKD, and polypharmacy
- What’s in the pipeline
7:20 PM – 7:50 PM | Case-Based Panel: What Would You Do?
- Newly diagnosed patient with elevated ALT & diabetes
- Patient with advanced fibrosis on FibroScan but no symptoms
- Young patient with obesity and normal liver enzymes
7:50 PM – 8:00 PM | Closing Remarks: Primary Care as Liver Health Leaders
Speaker: Michael Betel
- Recap takeaways (3 things every PCP should do starting tomorrow)
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