Wednesday, December 4


13.00-17.00: Hands-on Donor Surgery and Split Liver Masterclass
19.00-21.00: Course Dinner


Thursday, December 5:


09.00-17.00: Hands-on Donor Surgery and Split Liver Masterclass
         Faculty Dinner



WARNING: This practical course requires separate registration. To ensure quality, places are very limited, so be sure to register for the course as early as possible.


Friday, December 6:


2nd Ljubljana HPB Symposium (Grand Hotel Union)


08:00 - 10:00: Registration

10:00 - 10:10: Opening (Trotovšek)

10:10 - 10:40: State of the art lecture: What are the limits for surgery in primary liver tumours (Torsili)

10:50 - 11:20: Plenary lecture: Incidentaloma of the liver - What to do? (Janša)

11:20 - 12:20: SESSION 1: Benign liver tumours (Đokić, Šušteršič, Novak)

12:30 - 13:30: LUNCH

13:30 - 16:00: SESSION 2: Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (IHHC) (Karamarković, Baranski, Garbajs)

16:00 - 16:30: COFFEE BREAK

16:30 - 17:50: SESSION 3: From research to clinical practice (Radenković, Ivanecz, Popovič)

17:50 - 18:50: SESSION 4: New frontiers in primary liver tumours (Rifetbegović, Plut, Heaton)

20:00 Gala dinner


Saturday, December 7:


2nd Ljubljana HPB Symposium (Grand Hotel Union)


08:30 - 09:00: WEB - EAHPBA general assembly

09:00 - 10:45: Free Papers (Petrič, Dežman, Mikulič)

10:45 - 11:00: COFFEE BREAK

11:00 - 11:30: Eldar Gadžijev lecture: Vascular disease of the liver and the development of HCC (Heaton)

11.30 - 14:00: SESSION 5: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) (Heaton, Janša, Popović)

14:00 - 15:00: LUNCH

15:00 - 17:00: SESSION 6: Liver transplantation (Vilca-Melendez, Hafner, Andjelković)

17:00 Closing (Trotovšek)



The programme is subject to minor changes.