Description

This webinar, held on 17 December 2024, is a collaboration with the ERN RARE-LIVER Transition, Pregnancy, and Youth Panel groups.

The session aims to highlight key challenges and explore specialised topics, including:

  • What are the best contraception options for patients with liver disease?
  • How can we prepare for pregnancy if one of us has a liver disease?

  

Faculty

Chairs

 
Willy Visser

Willy Visser, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands is trained as an internist. She specialised in obstetric medicine. Until September 2021, she worked at Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands as an obstetric physician. She has been retired since September 2021 but is still involved in research. Her research interests focus on pre-eclampsia, HELLP-syndrome and acute fatty liver of pregnancy. She is one of the leaders of the ERN Pregnancy Working Group.

Leona Dold Leona Dold graduated from medical school in 2008, and started her clinical training in the Department of Internal Medicine I at the University Hospital Bonn (Germany). The department is specialised on gastroenterology, hepatology and infectious diseases. From 04/2016-09/2017 she carried out a research project about neutralising antibodies in Hepatitis C in the laboratory of experimental immunology in Cologne (head: Prof. Dr. F Klein). This work was funded by a stipend from the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF). After this, she returned to the medical department where she works at the outpatient department for gastroenterology and hepatology and provides a special consultation hour for patients with PSC. Leona is specialised on autoimmune liver diseases, especially PSC.  Teresa Antonini, Hôpital de la Croix-Rousse.

Speakers

 
Langeza Saleh Langeza Saleh, MD PhD is an academic researcher from Erasmus University Rotterdam. She is a resident in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
Teresa Maria Antonini Teresa Maria Antonini, MD, is graduated from Italy and completed her fellowship in hepatology and liver transplantation at Paul Brousse hospital (Villejuif, France). She worked as consultant hepatologist in Villejuif until 2018, then she moved to Lyon. She is now the medical head of liver transplantation program of Lyon (over than 100 liver transplantation per year) and deputy head of hepatology departement. Her hepatology department is the first (and the only one) in France to have been recognized and granted as Intitut Hospitalo-Universitaire ( IHU EVEREST : int EgratiVE RESearch in hepaTology). Her clinical and research interests include adult and pediatric liver transplantation particulary transition, and post-transplantation patient care.
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