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Podcast: Surfing the MASH Tsunami
Episode: S5 - E17.1 - Previewing EASL Congress 2024: Secretary General Aleksander Krag Shares His Vision For The Congress
Description: This first conversation from our EASL Congress 2024 preview starts with EASL Secretary General Aleksander Krag offering his vision for next week's meeting in Milano, after which Hannes Hagstrom shares some of his thoughts about the meeting design. Aleksander starts by discussing the preparation that has gone into this Congress since the Vienna meeting closed last August. The goals are ambitious, but he feels EASL has, by and large, succeeded. Aleksander mentions that 7,000+ people have registered, including 80+ companies and 25+ patient groups. and that researchers submitted 3,000 abstracts, 2,000 of which have been accepted. "Almost 300 different types of sessions" with 450 faculty me...