
Third Annual Liver Connect

Steven Flamm, MD

Ira Jacobson, MD

Marcelo Kugelmas, MD

Sammy Saab, MD, MPH
Faculty
Nezam Afdhal, MD
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, Massachusetts
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Aijaz Ahmed, MD*
Stanford University School of Medicine
Palo Alto, California
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Joseph Ahn, MD
Oregon Health & Science University
Portland, Oregon
Naim Alkhouri, MD
Arizona Liver Health
Chandler, Arizona
Alina Allen, MD
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota
David Bernstein, MD
JSDB Consulting
Roslyn, New York
Christopher Bowlus, MD
UC Davis Health
Sacramento, California
Kimberly Brown, MD*
Henry Ford Health
Detroit, Michigan
Robert Brown, Jr., MD, MPH
Weill Cornell Medicine
New York, New York
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Laurent Castera, MD, PhD
Beaujon Hospital
University of Paris
Paris, France
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Kathleen Corey, MD, MPH
Harvard Medical School
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts
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Lily Dara, MD
Keck School of Medicine USC
Los Angeles, California
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Douglas Dieterich, MD
Mount Sinai
New York, New York
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Mohamed Elsaid, PhD
Ohio State University College of Medicine
Columbus, Ohio
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Richard Finn, MD
UCLA Health
Santa Monica, California
Steven Flamm, MD*
Rush University Medical Center
Chicago, Illinois
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Robert Fontana, MD
University of Michigan Health
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Todd Frederick, MD
Sutter Health
San Francisco, California
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Scott Friedman, MD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, New York
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Adam J. Gehring, PhD
The University Health Network
Toronto, Canada
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Robert Gish, MD
Robert G Gish Consultants LLC
St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center
San Diego, California
Emmanuel Gordien, MD, PhD
University Hospitals of Paris-Seine-Saint-Denis
Paris, France
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Fredric Gordon, MD
Lahey Clinic Medical Center
Burlington, Massachusetts
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Nadege Gunn, MD, CPI
Impact Research Institute
Waco, Texas
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Ju-Tao Guo, MD
Baruch S. Blumberg Institute
Doylestown, Pennsylvania
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Stephen Harrison, MD
Gastroenterology Consultants
of San Antonio
San Antonio, Texas
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Scott Isaacs, MD
Atlanta Endocrine Associates
Atlanta, Georgia
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Ira Jacobson, MD*
NYU Langone Health
New York, New York
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Ani Kardashian, MD
Keck School of Medicine USC
Los Angeles, California
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Keerthana Kesavarapu, DO
RWJ Barnabas Health
New Brunswick, New Jersey
W. Ray Kim, MD
Stanford Medicine Health Care
Santa Clara, California
Christopher Koh, MD, MHSc
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland
Kris Kowdley, MD
Liver Institute Northwest
Seattle, Washington
Marcelo Kugelmas, MD*
South Denver GI
Englewood, Colorado
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Tatyana Kushner, MD, MSCE
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, New York
Paul Kwo, MD
Stanford University School of Medicine
Palo Alto, California
Jennifer C. Lai, MD, MBA
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California
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Craig Lammert, MD
Indiana University Health
Indianapolis, Indiana
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Pietro Lampertico, MD, PhD
University of Milan
Milan, Italy
Jeffrey Lazarus, PhD, MIH, MA
Barcelona Institute for Global Health
(IS Global)
Barcelona, Spain
Rohit Loomba, MD, MHSc
UC San Diego Health
San Diego, California
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Mitchell Mah'moud, MD
Duke University School of Medicine
Durham, North Carolina
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Raza Malik, MD, PhD
Albany Medical Center
Albany, New York
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Christos Mantzoros, MD, DSc
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
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John McHutchison, MD
Neil Mehta, MD
UCSF Health
San Francisco, California
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Jessica Leigh Mellinger MD, MSc
University of Michigan Health
Ann Arbor, Michigan
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Mack Mitchell, MD
UT Southwestern
Dallas, Texas
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Mazen Noureddin, MD, MHSc
Houston Research Institute
Houston, Texas
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Jörg Petersen, MD
St. George, University of Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany
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Nikolaos Pyrsopoulos, MD, PhD, MBA
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
University Hospital
Newark, New Jersey
Atoosa Rabiee, MD
Washington DC Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Washington, District of Columbia
Nancy Reau, MD
Rush University Medical Center
Chicago, Illinois
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Rajender Reddy, MD
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Nicole Rich, MD, MS
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas
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Mary Rinella, MD
University of Chicago Medicine
Chicago, Illinois
Vinod Rustgi, MD
Robert Wood Johnson Medical Group
New Brunswick, New Jersey
Sammy Saab, MD, MPH*
UCLA Health
Los Angeles, California
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Jörn Schattenberg, MD
University Medical Center Mainz
Mainz, Germany
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Marina Serper, MD, MS
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Jay Shubrook, DO
Touro University California
Vallejo, California
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Douglas Simonetto, MD
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota
Tram Tran, MD
UCLA Division of Digestive Diseases
Los Angeles, California
Hani Wadei, MD
Mayo Clinic
Jacksonville, Florida
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Heiner Wedemeyer, MD
Hannover Medical School
Hannover, Germany
Robert Wong MD, MS
Stanford University School of Medicine
Palo Alto, California
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Zobair Younossi, MD, MPH*
Inova Health System
Falls Church, Virginia
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Man-Fung Yuen, MD, PhD, DSc
The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong, China
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Shira Zelber-Sagi, PhD
University of Haifa
Tel-Aviv Medical Center
Haifa, Israel
*Liver Connect Course Directors
PARTICIPATING ADVISORS
Manal Abdelmalek, MD, MPH
Maliha Ahmad, MD
Joseph Ahn, MD
Naim Alkhouri, MD
Alina M. Allen, MD
Victor Arraya, MD
David Bernstein, MD
Brian Borg, MD
Christopher L. Bowlus, MD
Robert Brown, MD
Kathleen Corey, MD, MPH
Lily Dara, MD
David Dies, MD
Douglas Dieterich, MD
Hashem El-Serag, MD
Robert Fontana, MD
Todd Frederick, MD
Bradley Freilich, MD
Scott Friedman, MD
Michael Fuchs, MD, PhD
Pierre Gholam, MD
Robert Gish, MD
Norman Gitlin, MD
Fredric Gordon, MD
Stuart Gordon, MD
Nadege Gunn, MD
Nitika Gupta, MD, DCH, DNB, MRCPCH
James P. Hamilton, MD
Stephen Harrison, MD
Tarek Hassanein, MD
Ke-Qin Hu, MD
Scott Isaacs, MD, FACP, FACE
Ira Jacobson, MD
Prasun Jalal, MD
Arun B. Jesudian, MD
Shobhi Joshi, MD
Ani Kardashian, MD
Ray Kim, MD
Lindsay King, MD
Kris Kowdley, MD
Carina Kugelmas, MD
Laura Kulik MD
Sonal Kumar, MD MPH
Tatyana Kushner, MD, MSCE
Paul Kwo, MD
Douglas LaBrecque, MD
Michelle Lai, MD, MPH
Rohit Loomba, MD, MHSc
Haripriya Maddur, MD
Mitchell Mah'moud, MD
Richard Manch, MD
Parvez Mantry, MD
Anthony Martinez, MD
Neil Mehta, MD
Jessica Leigh Mellinger MD, MSc
Edward Mena, MD
Mack Mitchell, MD
Naveen Mittal, MD
Apurva A Modi, MD, MS, MHSc
Santiago Munoz, MD
Milton Mutchnick, MD
Satheesh Nair, MD
Mazen Noureddin, MD, MHSc
Calvin Pan, MD
Brian Pearlman, MD
Anjana Pillai,
Nikolaos Pyrsopoulos, MD
Natarajan Ravendhran, MD
Nancy Reau, MD
Rajender Reddy, MD
Fredric Regenstein, MD
Nicole Rich, MD, MS
Marina Roytman, MD
Mark Russo, MD
Vinod Rustgi, MD
Marina Serper, MD
Kenneth Sherman, MD
Mitchell Shiffman, MD
Jihad Slim, MD (ID)
Jessica Strzepka, MD
Paul Thuluvath, MD
Tram Tran, MD
Naoky Tsai, MD
Raj Vuppalanchi, MD
Hani Wadei, MD
Robert Wong, MD
Venue Details
Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach
Huntington Beach, California
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2023 EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
Thank you to our 2023
conference sponsors!