简介：Prof. Ji-Dong Jia， Director of the Liver Research Centre at the Beijing Friendship Hospital， Capital Medical University in Beijing， China. Past President of APASL 2010. On Thursday， he is scheduled to speak on Asia’s most pressing issue in viral hepatitis: the transmission of HBV from mother-to-child. As the main route of infection in the region， countries have been spending human and financial resources to halt the spread of the virus during childbirth.