FACULTY
Nezam Afdhal, MD
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, Massachusetts
Aijaz Ahmed, MD*
Stanford University School of Medicine
Palo Alto, California
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
Laurent Castera, MD, PhD
Beaujon Hospital
University of Paris
Paris, France
Kathleen Corey, MD, MPH
Harvard Medical School
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts
Lily Dara, MD
Keck School of Medicine USC
Los Angeles, California
Douglas Dieterich, MD
Mount Sinai
New York, New York
Mohamed Elsaid, PhD
Ohio State University College of Medicine
Columbus, Ohio
Richard Finn, MD
UCLA Health
Santa Monica, California
Steven Flamm, MD*
Rush University Medical Center
Chicago, Illinois
Robert Fontana, MD
University of Michigan Health
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Todd Frederick, MD
Sutter Health
San Francisco, California
Scott Friedman, MD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, New York
Adam J. Gehring, PhD
The University Health Network
Toronto, Canada
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
Fredric Gordon, MD
Lahey Clinic Medical Center
Burlington, Massachusetts
Nadege Gunn, MD, CPI
Impact Research Institute
Waco, Texas
Ju-Tao Guo, MD
Baruch S. Blumberg Institute
Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Stephen Harrison, MD
Gastroenterology Consultants
of San Antonio
San Antonio, Texas
Scott Isaacs, MD
Atlanta Endocrine Associates
Atlanta, Georgia
Ira Jacobson, MD*
NYU Langone Health
New York, New York
Ani Kardashian, MD
Keck School of Medicine USC
Los Angeles, California
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
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
Craig Lammert, MD
Indiana University Health
Indianapolis, Indiana
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
Mitchell Mah'moud, MD
Duke University School of Medicine
Durham, North Carolina
Raza Malik, MD, PhD
Albany Medical Center
Albany, New York
Christos Mantzoros, MD, DSc
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
John McHutchison, MD
Neil Mehta, MD
UCSF Health
San Francisco, California
Jessica Leigh Mellinger MD, MSc
University of Michigan Health
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Mack Mitchell, MD
UT Southwestern
Dallas, Texas
Mazen Noureddin, MD, MHSc
Houston Research Institute
Houston, Texas
Jörg Petersen, MD
St. George, University of Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany
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
Rajender Reddy, MD
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Nicole Rich, MD, MS
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas
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
Jörn Schattenberg, MD
University Medical Center Mainz
Mainz, Germany
Marina Serper, MD, MS
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Jay Shubrook, DO
Touro University California
Vallejo, California
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
Heiner Wedemeyer, MD
Hannover Medical School
Hannover, Germany
Robert Wong MD, MS
Stanford University School of Medicine
Palo Alto, California
Zobair Younossi, MD, MPH*
Inova Health System
Falls Church, Virginia
Man-Fung Yuen, MD, PhD, DSc
The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong, China
Shira Zelber-Sagi, PhD
University of Haifa
Tel-Aviv Medical Center
Haifa, Israel
*Liver Connect Course Directors
COURSE DIRECTORS
Zobair M. Younossi, MD, MPH
Inova Health System
Falls Church, Virginia
Aijaz Ahmed, MD
Stanford Medicine
Stanford, California
Kimberly A. Brown, MD
Henry Ford Hospital
Detroit, Michigan
Steven Flamm, MD
Rush University Medical Center
Chicago, Illinois
Ira Jacobson, MD
NYU Langone Health
New York, New York
Marcelo Kugelmas, MD
South Denver Gastroenterology, PC
Englewood, Colorado
Sammy Saab, MD, MPH
UCLA Pfleger Liver Institute
Los Angeles, California
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