2009APASL大会贾继东教授访谈

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文章导读：APASL is one of the most important regional associations for the study of liver disease. It was established in the 1970s by Professor Okuda, Professor Lawrie Powell, and several other senior professors at that time. It was a very small group at the beginning but it has grown very rapidly during the last decade, especially during the past five years.

Jidong Jia  Liver Research Center, Beijing University, Beijing, China

Hepatology Digest:  As we know, you will be the 2010 APASL President. Can you introduce to our readers the history, background, and mission of APASL?

Prof. Jia: APASL is one of the most important regional associations for the study of liver disease. It was established in the 1970s by Professor Okuda, Professor Lawrie Powell, and several other senior professors at that time. It was a very small group at the beginning but it has grown very rapidly during the last decade, especially during the past five years. The participants and the academic level have been raised very rapidly. It is now one of the five most important associations for the study of liver disease.

For the 2010 Beijing APASL annual meeting, we are supposed to have a large attendance of about 5,000 participants. A brand new national convention center will be used and we hope that doctors and professors from this region as well as other parts of the world will come to discuss the frontiers of hepatology. A slogan of APASL is “changing hepatology in the Asia-Pacific region”.

Hepatology Digest:  Do you think that since the meeting will be held in Beijing in 2010, it will help the local Chinese doctors to attend APASL?

Prof. Jia: Definitely yes. I think this is very important for Chinese doctors. Although nowadays it has become easier to leave China to attend international meetings, it is much easier for Chinese doctors to attend meetings in China and this will help Chinese doctors a lot.

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