Día mundial de la Hepatitis: La situación del Ecuador
Conferences with current topics and impact: transmission dynamics, availability of new treatments, diagnosis and research data in Ecuador.
Free event aimed at specialists and general practitioners, medical students and the general public.
Calendar
8:30 - 9:00
Hepatitis A: Current situation in Ecuador
Dr. Juan José Suárez
9:00 - 9:10
Questions
9:15 - 9:45
Hepatitis B: Is Ecuador a high prevalence country in Latin America? Research Presentation
Dr. Daniel Garzón
9:45 - 9:55
Questions
10:00 - 10:30
Hepatitis C: Current Treatments
Dr. Ângelo Zambam de Mattos
10:30 - 10:40
Questions
10:45 - 11: 10 Coffee break
11:15 - 11:45
Hepatitis E - D: Its presence in Ecuador
Dr. Enrique Carrera
11:45 - 11:50
Questions
12:00 - 13:00
Round Table with specialists
13:00
End of symposium
Presenters

Dr. Juan José Suárez Martínez
Ecuador
- Doctor of Medicine and Surgery, Universidad Central del Ecuador. Quito-Ecuador in 1982
- Specialty in Internal Medicine. University Clinic. University of Navarra. Pamplona-Spain. 1984-1986
- Sub-Specialty in Hepatology. Liver Unit. Hospital Clinic i Provincial. Barcelona-Spain. 1986
- Former Attending Physician of the Internal Medicine Service of the Hospital Enrique Garcés. Quito
- Associate Physician of:
- Hospital Metropolitano: Hepatologist of the Transplant Unit (2009-2015).
- Attending Physician Axxis Hospital (Internal Medicine-Hepatology).
- Former professor of undergraduate and Diploma in Gastroenterology at the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the Central University. Quito . Former founding professor of the Faculty of Medicine of PUCE. Quito. Former Sub-Dean and Professor in undergraduate and postgraduate of the Faculty of Health Sciences Eugenio Espejo. UTE. Quito. Past-Principal Professor (retired) of the College of Health Sciences and School of Medicine, Universidad San Francisco de Quito.
- Member and Past-President of the Ecuadorian Society of Gastroenterology, Pichincha Chapter.
- Member of the Latin American Association of Hepatology (ALEH).

Dr. Ângelo Zambam de Mattos
Brazil
- Adjunct Professor of Gastroenterology at the Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre (UFCSPA);
- Coordinator of the Postgraduate Program in Hepatology of the Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre (UFCSPA);
- Master's and PhD in Hepatology from the Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre (UFCSPA);
- Gastroenterologist of the Irmandade Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Porto Alegre (ISCMPA).

Dr. Enrique Carrera Estupiñán
Ecuador
- Medical Specialist in Gastroenterology - Hepatology
- Hospital Especialidades Eugenio Espejo - Coordinator of the Hepatobiliary Lesions Committee Quito - Ecuador
- Physician SIME Medical Systems USFQ
- Assistant Professor at Universidad San Francisco de Quito - Ecuador
- Postgraduate Tutor Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador
- Member of the Advisory Committee on Viral Hepatitis PAHO - Ministry of Public Health, Ecuador.
- Principal Investigator of the ESCALON Project in Ecuador.

Md. Daniel Garzón Chávez
Ecuador
- Ph.D. in Microbiology from Universidad San Francisco de Quito.Master in Public Health and Tropical Medicine from James Cook University, Australia.
- Master in Health Management for local development from the Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja.
- Medical Doctor from Universidad Central del Ecuador.
- Full-time professor and coordinator of the research laboratory of the School of Medicine of the Universidad San Francisco de Quito.
- Principal investigator of the hepatitis B and C genotyping project in Ecuador.
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