WGO Porto Alegre Hepatology Training Center 4th Hepatitis C Course Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre – Quality Porto Alegre Hotel March 26-‐28, 2014 Wednesday, March 26 Gastroenterology Division – Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre 12:45 – 13:00 - Welcome Mario Reis Alvares-da-Silva (RS) 13:00 – 13:30 – Hepatitis C: triple therapy as the current treatment in Brazil Mario Reis Alvares-da-Silva (RS) Liver Outpatient Clinic – Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre 13:30 – 15:30 - Outpatient Clinic: experiencing clinical dilemmas on hepatitis C management Mario Reis Alvares-da-Silva (RS), Matheus Michalczuk (RS), Antonio de Barros Lopes (RS), Suzana Müller (RS) Gastroenterology Division – Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre 15:30 – 15:45 – Handling protease inhibitors adverse effects Mario Reis Alvares-da-Silva (RS) 15:45 – 16:00 - Coffee break 16:00 – 18:30 - Hepatitis C – Real life experience: discussing selected casesMario Reis Alvares-da-Silva (RS) Thursday, March 27 Sala Moinhos II – Quality Porto Alegre Hotel 8:30 - 9:45- Panel – HCV Inpatient Clinic – cirrhosis and its complications – Chairperson: Mario Reis Alvares-da-Silva (RS); Discussion: Aljamir Chedid (RS), Angelo Mattos (RS), Cristiane Villela (RJ), Giovanni Faria Silva (SP), Gabriela Coral (RS) 9:45 – 10:00 - Coffee break 10:00 – 11:00 - Panel – Hepatitis C: from acute disease to hepatocellular carcinoma – Chairperson: Mario Reis Alvares-da-Silva (RS); Case presentation: Jerônimo Oliveira (RS); Discussion: Aljamir Chedid (RS), Angelo Mattos (RS), Carlos Thadeu Cerski (RS), Giovanni Faria Silva (SP) 11:00 – 12:00 – Panel – Hepatitis C after transplantation – Chairperson: Mario Reis Alvaresda-Silva (RS); Case presentation: Jerônimo Oliveira (RS); Discussion: Carlos Thadeu Cerski (RS), Cristiane Villela (RJ), Nadine Clausell (RS), Gabriela Coral (RS) Sala Moinhos II – Quality Porto Alegre Hotel 12:15 – 13:45 - Lunch with the specialist – HCV in real life – Cristiane Villela (RJ), Paulo Abrão Ferreira (SP) (lunch will be provided) Sala Moinhos II – Quality Porto Alegre Hotel 14:00 – 14:45 - Post-graduate Research Session I – Hepatitis C and vitamin D – Presentation: Laura Alencastro de Azevedo (RS) Discussion: Claudia Oliveira (SP), Paulo Abrão Ferreira (SP) 14:45 – 15:00 – An ABC of HIV and HAART for the hepatologist – Paulo Abrão Ferreira (SP) 15:00 – 15:45 – Post-graduate Research Session II – Hepatitis C and pain: tDCS – Presentation: Aline Brietzke (RS) Discussion: Cristiane Villela (RJ), Claudia Oliveira (SP), Wolnei Caumo (RS) 15:45 – 16:00 - Coffee break 16:00 – 17:00 – Panel: Is there still a role for PEG therapy in patients with HCV? Chairperson: Mario Reis Alvares-da-Silva (RS); Discussion: Cristiane Villela (RJ), Maria Cassia MendesCorrêa (SP), Giovanni Faria SIlva (SP), Paulo Abrão Ferreira (SP) 17:00 – 18:00 – Panel: What about the access to the upcoming drugs? Chairperson: Mario Reis Alvares-da-Silva (RS); Discussion: Eduardo Emerim (RS), Giovanni Faria Silva (SP), Maria Cássia Mendes-Corrêa (SP), Paulo Picon (RS) 20:00 – 22:30 – Welcome Dinner Friday, March 28 10:15 – 10:30 – HCV F1/F2 patients: treat now or continue to wait? – Maria Cássia MendesCorrêa (SP) 8:30 – 10:00 - Panel – Optimizing HCV treatment with the protease inhibitors – 10:30 – 11:45 - Panel – Hepatitis C beyond the protease inhibitors – from antiviral drugs to vaccine - Chairperson: Mario Reis Alvares- 10:00 – 10:15 - Coffee break 11:45 - 12:00: Closing remarks and certificates - Mario Reis Alvares-da-Silva (RS) Sala Moinhos II – Quality Porto Alegre Hotel Chairperson: Mario Reis Alvares-da-Silva (RS); Discussion: Claudia Oliveira (SP), Maria Cássia MendesCorrêa (SP), Matheus Michalczuk (RS), Paulo Abrão Ferreira (SP) da-Silva (RS); Discussion: Maria Cássia Mendes-Corrêa (SP), Paulo Abrão Ferreira (SP) Faculty Alvares-da-Silva MR (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil) Azevedo LA (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil) Barros Lopes A (Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Brazil) Brietzke A (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil) Caumo W (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil) Cerski CT (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil) Chedid AD (Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Brazil) Clausell N (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil) Coral GP (Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Brazil) Emerim E (SAE Hepatites Virais Prefeitura Municipal de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Brazil) Ferreira PA (Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil) Mattos AA (Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Brazil) Mendes-Corrêa MC (Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil) Michalczuk M (Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Brazil) Müller S (Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Brazil) Oliveira CP (Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil) Oliveira JC (Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Brazil) Picon PD (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil) Silva GF (Universidade Estadual Paulista, Botucatu, Brazil) Villela-Nogueira C (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Course Director Alvares-da-Silva MR Sponsored by Institutional support This course is part of the Official Scientific Agenda of the WGO Porto Alegre Hepatology Training Center