The webinar is a 60-minute live event with 2 chairs and 3 panellists presenting 15- minute presentations. After the 15- minute presentations by each panellist, there will be a 15- minute interactive discussion between the chairs, panellist and the audience.

The selected speakers and topics will be:

Webinar:Screening and Treatment of Gastroesophageal Varices Prior to Systemic Therapy for HCC

Webinar Chairs, members of the ILCA Young Investigator Committee:

• Ken Liu, Clinical Senior Lecturer, Medicine, Central Clinical School. Staff Specialist, AW Morrow Gastroenterology and Liver Centre Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sidney, Australia
• Marco Sanduzzi, Investigator, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona · BCLC group, Liver Unit, Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Spain

Proposed Webinar Topics and Speakers:

• Pathophysiology of portal hypertension in HCC patients,  Manon Allaire , Director bleeding Unit Hospital de la Santa Creu I Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain
• Screening and Treatment of Gastroesophageal varices in patients with HCC,Grace Wong, Professor, Department of Medicine & Therapeutics. Director, Medical Data Analytics Centre (MDAC) Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• Gastroesophageal varices in advanced HCC - an oncologist's perspective, Grainne O'Kane,  medical oncologist specializing in pancreatic and hepatobiliary cancers malignancies. University Health Network – The Princess Margaret Hospital · Gastrointestinal Oncology. Assistant Professor Department of Medicine Temerty Faculty of Medicine University of Toronto, Canada