Minerva Lunch Seminar 16.4. / Faculty Club Biomedicum at 11:50-13

Professor Annalisa Berzigotti
University of Berne and University Hospital of Berne
Switzerland

“Non-invasive imaging methods of the liver“

📅 When? Thursday April 16th
🕙 Time: At 11:50 – 13
📍 Where? Faculty Club, Biomedicum 1

A representative of Novo Nordisk, Ilkka Vauhkonen, will give a brief 10-minute presentation at the beginning of the event.

Participation in the event can be credited as 1 hour of specialization training in internal medicine, endocrinology, and gastroenterology.

To secure your lunch, please register to cia.olsson@minervainstitute.fi by email no later than Tuesday, April 7th.

Bio:
Annalisa Berzigotti is Full Professor of Clinical Hepatology at the University of Berne and Chief of Hepatology and Co-Director of the Department of Visceral Surgery and Medicine of the Inselspital, University Hospital of Berne, Switzerland.

She earned her medical degree and completed her residency in Bologna, Italy, and further specialized in liver disease research and clinical practice at the Hepatic Hemodynamic Laboratory of the Liver Unit, Hospital Clinic, University of Barcelona, Spain.

Her primary interests include the invasive and non-invasive assessment and management of chronic liver disease and portal hypertension. She has authored/co-authored over 350 peer-reviewed publications on the clinical and translational aspects of liver disease.

Dr. Berzigotti has been a member of the Governing Board of the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) in 2016-2019, and liver representative on the Council of United European Gastroenterology (UEG) in 2022-2025. She is Vice Chair of the Baveno Cooperation, an EASL consortium devoted to advance knowledge and practice in portal hypertension. She also serves as Deputy Editor of the Journal of Hepatology for clinical science and is member of the governing board of the Swiss Association for the Study of the Liver (SASL).

Her work has been recognized with the Stern-Gattiker Prize (Switzerland, 2018), the Lucie Bolte Prize (Germany, 2021), and the EASL Community Award (2025). In 2025, she delivered the Jean-Pierre Benhamou Clinical State of the Art Lecture at the EASL Congress, entitled “The Promise and Pitfalls of Non-Invasive Testing.”

Welcome!