Issue 45

20 May - 2 June 1997

Record conference attendance

A record number of 2,500 delegates attended the annual meeting of the European Association of Liver Disease held at Imperial College in April.

The meeting was officially opened by Professor Christopher Edwards, principal of the Imperial College School of Medicine and hosted and organised by the society's president Howard Thomas, professor of medicine at Imperial College School of Medicine at St Mary's.

The postgraduate course reviewed the topic 'Drugs and the Liver' and the president's meeting was entitled 'Immunology for the Hepatologist'.

Other symposia covered advances in the diagnosis of hereditary disease, prevention of fibrosis, treatment and prevention of viral hepatitis, new methods of viral quantification, advances in transplant medicine and oncology.

Social events included a concert of coronation music at Westminster Abbey featuring the English Chamber Orchestra and the Abbey Singers. A welcome reception was held at the Science Museum and the gala dinner was held in the Dinosaur Gallery at the Natural History Museum.