S4-E44.1 - Introducing Roberta Forlano and a Variety of Compelling Research Interests

Send us Fan MailThis week on SurfingNASH, we introduce the audience to new guest, Dr Roberta Forlano, who's been awarded an EASL Juan Rodes PhD Fellowship and has completed a PhD in Translational Hepatology at Imperial College London in 2022. Her current research interest are screening strategies for NAFLD in primary care, automated quantitation of histological features , lifestyle management, CV risk assessment and non-invasive markers in NAFLD. These interests and much more are shared and discussed with Jörn Schattenberg, Louise Campbell and Roger Green in a compelling episode with an overarching theme focusing on screening strategies for gender-based SLD challenges. To offer an example of how immensely productive and busy Roberta and her team have been, they recently presented 6 posters at the recently concluded SLD Summit.This conversation starts with Louise introducing our new guest Surfer and why she felt the various recent papers might be so important for our audience. For Louise, the common thread in much of Roberta's work, and certainly the two papers we discuss in this episode, is the focus on at-risk populations, patients with Type-2 diabetes in primary research, and postmenopausal women in literature review. Most of the conversation entails Roberta discussing the reasons she and her team pursued the issue of screening done by frontline treaters among a high-risk patient group, and in this case, patients with Type-2 diabetes in the northwest area of London. She describes all the key elements of the paper, from how the group selected patients to screen and how to screen them to then what the researchers learned in the process of doing the study. When she finishes, Jörn commends the study and notes that the results described are similar to what he has seen when evaluating patients in this clinic With that as a very brief introduction to a fascinating conversation well-worth a listen, surf on to learn more about Roberta and critical ideas around screening strategies and much more. If you have questions or comments stemming from this episode, or any others for that matter, we kindly ask that you submit reviews wherever you download the discourse. Alternatively, you can write to us directly at [email protected] Safe and Surf On!