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Third Annual Liver Connect 

LIVER CONNECT SCHEDULE

Agenda

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Course Directors

Course Directors

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Zobair M. Younossi, MD, MPH

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Aijaz Ahmed, MD

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Kimberly A. Brown, MD

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Steven Flamm, MD

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Ira Jacobson, MD

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Marcelo Kugelmas, MD

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Sammy Saab, MD, MPH

Faculty

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

Advisors

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

Venue Details

Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach

Huntington Beach, California 

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Webcasts & Slides

2023 EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

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