The Pakistan Society for the Study of Liver Diseases (PSSLD) is the leading organization of professionals committed to the prevention and cure of liver diseases. PSSLD comprises scientists and healthcare personnel from across Pakistan who are devoted to this cause. Mentoring, sharing knowledge and dedication to professional growth and development are among the core values of PSSLD and its members.
It is only in the recent times that Hepatology has been recognized as a discipline in Pakistan. PSSLD has been elemental in playing a seminal and unifying role to focus interest on liver problems. Among other initiatives, PSSLD has been educating medical community and public about liver diseases by organizing scientific and public awareness programs.
PSSLD sponsors one annual meeting and a number of Single Topic Conferences each year. Our quarterly publication informs about the activity of the Society undertaken in the last quarter, includes updates about coming events and important meetings. Journal of the PSSLD would be launched at an appropriate time as the society would grow in maturity and strength.
In Pakistan, liver transplantation is still not widely available and PSSLD continues its efforts for developing this facility, at the earliest, in public/private sector by influencing the policy makers.