BIR: Liver Imaging

Venue: Etc. venues Marble Arch, London

Take the Central line to Marble Arch Station, when you exit the station, turn right on to Oxford Street and then right again on to Edgware Road walking past the Odeon Cinema. etc.venues Marble Arch is in Garfield House, on the right hand side next to the Tescos.

Paddington station is approximately 20 minutes walk. Use the Praed Street exit and turn left on to Praed Street and continue until you walk on to Edgware Road. Turn right onto Edgware Road and continue towards Marble Arch. etc.venues Marble Arch is at the other end of Edgware Road on the left. Alternatively bus routes 36 or 436 go from outside Paddington on Praed Street and on to Edgware Road and take approximately 10 minutes to Marble Arch.

etc.venues Marble Arch sits on many bus routes including 7, 10, 73, 98, 137, 390, 6, 23, 94, 159, 30, 94, 113, 159, 274, 2, 16, 36, 74, 82, 148, 414, 436.

There is a NCP car park situated within close proximity to Marble Arch - visit www.ncp.co.uk for more details.

The nearest “Boris Bike” docking station is on Edgware Road / Marble Arch

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09:25 Welcome and introduction

Dr Suzanne Ryan, Consultant Radiologist, Kings College Hospital

09:30 Leave alone or follow up— work up and characterisation of benign liver lesion

Dr Praveen Peddu, Consultant Radiologist, Kings College Hospital

10:00 Primary and secondary liver malignancy

Dr Nick Woodward, Consultant Radiologist, Royal Free Hospital

10:30 Interactive session: evaluation and management of practical cases

Dr Adel Abdellaoui, Consultant Radiologist, Derriford Hospital

11:00 Refreshments

11:30 Cirrhosis surveillance: what to look for and what to do when you find it

Dr Dylan Lewis, Consultant Radiologist, Kings College Hospital

12:00 Fatty liver: diagnosis and implications

Dr Matthew Foxton, Consultant Hepatologist, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital

12:30 Cholangiopathy pearls and pitfalls

Dr Zahir Amin, Consultant Radiologist, University College London Hospitals

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Ultrasound

Professor Paul Sidhu, Consultant Radiologist, Kings College Hospital

14:30 MRI

Professor Michael Maher Consultant Radiologist, Cork and Mercy University Hospitals

15:00 Nuclear Medicine

Dr Nicola Mulholland, Consultant Radiologist, Kings College Hospital

15:30 Refreshments

16:00 Intervention: present and future

Dr Ian Renfrew, Consultant Radiologist, Barts Health

16:30 Surgery what the surgeon wants in the report

Mr Satya Bhattacharya, Consultant Hepatobiliary Surgeon, Barts Health

17:00 Post procedure appearances: expected or alarming

Dr Dominic Yu, Consultant Radiologist, The Royal Free Hospital

17:30 Close of event