Promoting research and education in hepatology

In the coming years, EASL's Governing Board shall aim to:

• Develop our scientific and educational programs within a structured but transparent framework

• Structure our annual scientific meeting, The International Liver Congress™ to ensure the selection of high quality and competitive scientific presentations and State-of-the-Art lectures
• Encourage initiatives to organize monothematic conferences on various aspects of liver disease
• Provide a continuous forum for basic and clinical education of young investigators through the EASL Schools of Hepatology

• Coordinate the generation of Clinical Guidelines for optimizing clinical care in a variety of liver diseases
• Ensure healthy and stable financial reserves of our association
• Promote the participation of EASL members in the association's activities
• Foster relationships with the Journal of Hepatology, the official journal of our association
• Strengthen our relationship with sister societies and patients associations
• Place liver diseases and research high-up on European policy makers' agendas