ERN RARE-LIVER Working Groups

Transversal Working Groups - Leads

Quality of Life (QoL)

Maciej Janik

Maciej Janik

  • Quality of Life (QoL)

Medical University of Warsaw Hospital, Poland

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Marianne Samyn

  • Quality of Life (QoL)

King’s College Hospital London, UK

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Ewa Wunsch

  • Quality of Life (QoL)

Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland

Transition

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Ruth De Bruyne

  • Transition

Ghent University Hospital, Belgium

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João Madaleno

  • Transition

Centro Hospitalar Universitario de Coimbra, Portugal

Karsten Vanden Wyngaert

Karsten Vanden Wyngaert

  • Transition

Ghent University Hospital, Belgium

Liver Disease in Pregnancy

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Wiebke Papenthin

  • Liver Disease in Pregnancy
  • Wilson Disease (WD)

Morbus Wilson e.V., Germany

Willy Visser

Willy Visser

  • Liver Disease in Pregnancy

Erasmus MC: University Medical Center Rotterdam, Netherlands

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Wilhelmus Kwanten

  • Liver Disease in Pregnancy

Antwerp University Hospital (UZA), Antwerp, Belgium

Nurses Working Group Leads

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Martina Fellinghauer

Liver Care Nursing Austria, AKH Wien, Austria

  • Nurses Working Group Leads
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Neus Llarch Alfonso

BCLC – Hepatic Oncology Unit – Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, Spain

  • Nurses Working Group Leads
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Gemma Iserte Fort

  • Nurses Working Group Leads
Hepatic Oncology, Hospital Clínic i Provincial de Barcelona, Spain
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Paloma Martínez Campos

  • Nurses Working Group Leads

Hospital Universitario “La Paz”, Madrid, Spain

Disease Working Groups - Leads

Autoimmune Hepatitis (AIH)

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Marcial Sebode

  • Deputy Coordinator and Lead Clinical Patient Management System (CPMS)
  • Deputy coordinator
  • Autoimmune Hepatitis (AIH)

University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany

Marianne Jorgensen

Marianne Hørby Jørgensen

  • Paediatric lead
  • Pillar Leads
  • Autoimmune Hepatitis (AIH)

Rigshospitalet University of Copenhagen, Denmark

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Francesca Scarpa

AMAF Italy, Patient Representative Management Board

  • Autoimmune Hepatitis (AIH)

Primary Biliary Cholangitis (PBC)

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Prof. Maria Papp

MD, FEBG, DSc, Internist, Gastroenterologist, Consultant Hepatologist

  • Primary Biliary Cholangitis (PBC)

HCP REPRESENTATIVE

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Prof. Dr. Jef Verbeek, MD, PhD

Staff Member Dept. Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Professor of Medicine University Hospitals KULeuven

  • Primary Biliary Cholangitis (PBC)
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Bert Tomsin

ERN RARE-LIVER Patient Representative

  • Primary Biliary Cholangitis (PBC)

Mijnlever Patiëntenvereniging Zeldzame Leverziekten

Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis (PSC)

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Martine Walmsley

  • Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis (PSC)

PSC support, UK; EASL Policy and Public Health Committee

Norman Junge

Norman Junge

  • Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis (PSC)

Hannover Medical School, Germany

Nora Cazzagon

Nora Cazzagon

Azienda Ospedaliera Università di Padova, Italy

  • Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis (PSC)

Genetic Cholestatic Disease

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Emmanuel Gonzales

  • Genetic Cholestatic Disease

Hôpital Bicêtre, Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris, France

Henkjan Verkade

Henkjan J. Verkade

  • Genetic Cholestatic Disease

University Medical Center Groningen, Netherlands

Porträt Verena Keitel

Verena Keitel

  • Genetic Cholestatic Disease

Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany

Biliary Atresia (BA)

Bjoern Fischler

Björn Fischler

  • Biliary Atresia (BA)

Karolinska University Hospital Stockholm, Sweden

Dr. Dr. Ekkehard Sturm

Ekkehard Sturm

Universitätsklinikum Tübingen, Germany

  • Biliary Atresia (BA)

Christoph Slavetinsky

  • Biliary Atresia (BA)

Universitätsklinikum Tübingen, Germany

Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Liver Disease (AATD)

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Pavel Strnad

  • Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Liver Disease (AATD)

University Hospital Aachen, Germany

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Mathias Ruiz

  • Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Liver Disease (AATD)

CHU Lyon, France

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Frank Willersinn

  • Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Liver Disease (AATD)

Alpha-1 Plus asbl, Belgium

Acute Liver Failure (ALF)

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Dominic Lenz

  • Acute Liver Failure (ALF)

Heidelberg University Hospital, Germany

Haemochromatosis

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Antonello Pietrangelo

  • Haemochromatosis

University Hospital of Modena, Italy

Polycystic Liver Disease (PLD)

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Joost P.H. Drenth

  • Polycystic Liver Disease (PLD)

Amsterdam University Medical Center, Netherlands

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Carmen Teemer

  • Polycystic Liver Disease (PLD)

PKD Familiäre Zystennieren e.V.

Rare Liver Tumours

Valérie Paradis

Hôpital Beaujon, Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris

  • Rare Liver Tumours

Steven Warmann

Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin

  • Rare Liver Tumours

Vascular Liver Disease (VLD)

Aurélie Plessier

Aurélie Plessier

  • Clinical Practice Guidelines
  • Vascular Liver Disease (VLD)

Hôpital Beaujon, Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris, France

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Valerie McLin

  • Vascular Liver Disease (VLD)

University Hospitals Geneva, Swiss Centre for Liver Disease in Children, Switzerland

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Sophie Pénisson

  • Vascular Liver Disease (VLD)

AMVF (Association des Malades des Vaisseaux du Foie), France

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Sarah Raevens

  • Vascular Liver Disease (VLD)

Ghent University Hospital, Belgium

Biliary Malformations (BM)

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Ruben de Kleine

  • Biliary Malformations (BM)

University Medical Centre Groningen, Netherlands
HCP REPRESENTATIVE

Wilson Disease (WD)

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Thomas Sandahl

  • Wilson Disease (WD)

Department of Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark

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Piotr Socha

  • Wilson Disease (WD)

Children’s Memorial Health Institute, Warsaw

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Wiebke Papenthin

  • Liver Disease in Pregnancy
  • Wilson Disease (WD)

Morbus Wilson e.V., Germany

Couchonnal-Bedoya

Eduardo Couchonnal-Bedoya

  • Wilson Disease (WD)

Hospices Civils de Lyon, France

Alveolar Echinococcosis

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Anja Lachenmayer

  • Alveolar Echinococcosis

Inselspital Bern, Department of Visceral Surgery and Medicine

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Beate Grüner

  • Alveolar Echinococcosis

Universitätsklinikum Ulm, Germany

CF-Related Hepatobiliary Involvement (CFHBI)

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Lorenz Grossar

  • CF-Related Hepatobiliary Involvement (CFHBI)

Ghent University Hospital, Belgium

Hepatitis Delta Virus

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Sabela Lens

  • Hepatitis Delta Virus

Hospital Clínic i Provincial de Barcelona

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Milan Sonneveld

  • Hepatitis Delta Virus

Erasmus MC Rotterdam