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Forward10th Annual Update on Liver Disease (RP2612C)
About The Course
This annual hybrid (in-person and live-streamed) CME course will translate major updates from The Liver Meeting 2026 and recent peer-reviewed literature into practical care pathways for clinicians who manage patients with liver disease. The 2026 conference emphasizes steatotic liver disease care, including MASH, MetALD, alcohol-use assessment, and referral pathways; portal hypertension, CSPH, prevention of first decompensation, management of ascites, varices, and hepatic encephalopathy, and referral for liver transplant evaluation; HCC surveillance and diagnostic pitfalls; safe clinical use of AI tools, including chatbots and ambient documentation; autoimmune and cholestatic liver disease, including PBC after obeticholic acid withdrawal and updates in AIH/PSC; renal dysfunction and anticoagulation in cirrhosis; and lifestyle, weight wellness, and nutrition counseling for chronic liver disease and cirrhosis.
The course, beneficial for physicians, advanced practice providers, nurses, dieticians, allied health professionals and other clinicians caring for patients with liver disease, will include didactic presentations, case-based sessions, a formal debate, poster session, and panel Q&A to make the content interactive, practical, and applicable to community practice.
Target Audience
- Physicians
- Advanced practice providers
- Nurses
- Dieticians
- Allied health professionals
- Other clinicians caring for patients with liver disease
Learning Objectives
1) Apply current MASH updates and a stepwise steatotic liver disease pathway to classify MASLD, MetALD, and ALD.
2) Identify treatment-eligible or high-risk patients; and route patients to the appropriate level of care using pre-referral work-up and fibrosis risk thresholds.
3) Utilize liver stiffness, platelet count, imaging, and endoscopy findings to identify CSPH.
4) Initiate evidence-based measures to prevent first decompensation.
5) Improve management of ascites, varices, and hepatic encephalopathy.
6) Recognize indications for referral for liver transplant evaluation.
7) Implement evidence-based HCC surveillance and recall pathways.
8) Evaluate high-yield hepatology cases that should not be missed.
9) identify safe-use principles for chatbots, ambient documentation, and AI-enabled decision support in liver care.
10) Assess adequacy of biochemical response in PBC, compare second-line management strategies after OCA withdrawal, and apply updated diagnostic and management principles to AIH and PSC patient cases.
11) Differentiate AKI, AKD, CKD, and HRS-AKI in cirrhosis.
12) initiate a structured first-step evaluation of a creatinine rise.
13) apply case-based principles to anticoagulation decisions for PVT, AF/VTE, and procedures in liver disease.
14) Counsel patients with chronic liver disease and cirrhosis on weight wellness and nutrition using evidence-based recommendations that balance metabolic benefit, muscle preservation, cirrhosis safety, and patient-centered goals.
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Physician
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center designates this live activity for a maximum of 6.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Non-Physician
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center certifies that non-physicians will receive an attendance certificate stating that they participated in the activity that was designated for 6.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.
Available Credit
- 6.50 AMA
- 6.50 Attendance
Price
Registration
To register:
- Login to your existing account or create an account in EthosCE, online learning management system, by selecting the "Register" link.
- Once logged in, return to this course page, select the designated category and click the "add to cart" button.
- Once logged in, return to this course page, select the designated fee and click the "add to cart" button.
- In the following "checkout" pages you will verify and process your payment.
- After registration is completed, a confirmation will be sent by email.
Refund Cancellation Policy
A $25 handling fee will be deducted from cancellation refunds. Refund requests must be received by email at [email protected] at least ten business days prior to the start of the course. No refunds will be made thereafter.