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Fourth Annual Liver Connect 

AGENDA

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

Speakers

FACULTY

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Manal Abdelmalek, MD, MPH

Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN

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Christopher Bowlus, MD

UC Davis Health

Sacramento, CA

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Lily Dara, MD

Keck School of Medicine of USC 

Los Angeles, CA

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Steven Flamm, MD

Rush University Medical Center

Chicago, IL

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Regino Gonzalez-Peralta, MD

Advent Health

Orlando, FL

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Nitika Gupta, MD

Children's Healthcare of Atlanta

Atlanta, GA

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Binita Kamath, MD

The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto

Toronto, Canada

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Alyssa Kriegermeier, MD

Northwestern University

Chicago, IL

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Jeffrey Lazarus, PhD, MIH, MA

ISGlobal

Barcelona, Spain

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Parvez Mantry, MD

The Liver Institute at Methodist Dallas Medical Center

Dallas, TX

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Edward Mena, MD

Huntington Memorial Hospital

 Pasadena, CA

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Nikkil Pai, MD

McMaster's Children's Hospital

Hamilton, ON

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Sammy Saab, MD

UCLA Pfleger Liver Institute

Los Angeles, CA

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Shikha Sundaram, MD

Children's Hospital Colorado

Aurora, CO

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Zobair Younossi, MD, MPH

Inova Health System

Falls Church, VA

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Chathur Acharya, MD

Ohio State University

Columbus, OH

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Kimberly A. Brown, MD 

Henry Ford Hospital

Detroit, MI

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Mark Deneau, MD, MS

University of Utah Health

Salt Lake City, UT

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Alvin "Jay" Freeman, MD

Nationwide Children's

Columbus, OH

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Fredric Gordon, MD

Tufts Medical Center 

Burlington, MA

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Gideon Hirschfield, MA, MB, PhD

University of Toronto

Toronto, Canada

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Hetal Karsan, MD

United Digestive 

Atlanta, GA

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Carina Kugelmas, MD 

Denver Health Medical Center

Denver, CO

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Brian P. Lee, MD

Keck School of Medicine of USC

Los Angeles, CA

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Paul Martin, MD

University of Miami Health System 

Miami, FL

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Mack Mitchell, MD

UT Southwestern

Dallas, TX

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Nikolaos Pyrsopoulos, MD

Rutgers-NJMS

 Newark, NJ

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Kenneth Sherman, MD, PhD

Massachusetts General Hospital-Harvard Medical School

Boston, MA

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Miriam Vos, MD, MSPH 

Emory School of Medicine  

Atlanta, GA

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Fabien Zoulim, MD, PhD

University of Lyon

Lyon, France

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Aijaz Ahmed, MD 

Stanford Medicine

Stanford, CA

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Kyong-Mi Chang, MD

University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

Philadelphia, PA

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Udeme Ekong, MD

Georgetown University 

Washington, DC

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Man Fung Yuen, MD, PhD, DSc

The University of Hong Kong

Hong Kong, China

(Virtual)

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Nidhi Goyal, MD

UCSD/Rady Children's Hospital 

San Diego, CA

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Scott Isaacs, MD, FACP, FACE

Atlanta Endocrine Associates

Atlanta, GA

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Patrick Kennedy, MB, BCh, BAO, BMedSci, FRCP, MD

 

Queen Mary University of London

London, England (Virtual)

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Marcelo Kugelmas, MD

South Denver Gastroenterology

Englewood, CO

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Dan Leung, MD

Texas Children's Hospital

Houston, TX

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Mercedes Martinez, MD

Columbia University

New York, NY

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Santiago Munoz, MD

Johns Hopkins University Medical Center

 TBD

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Anna Peters, MD, PhD

Cincinnati Children's Hospital

Cincinnati, OH

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Jeffrey Schwimmer, MD

Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego

San Diego, CA

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Raj Vuppalanchi, MD

Indiana University School of Medicine 

Indianapolis, IN

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Alina Allen, MD

Mayo Clinic

Rochester, MN

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Melanie Cree, MD

University of Colorado Denver

Denver, CO

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Rima Fawaz, MD

Yale New Haven Hospital

New Haven, CT

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Robert Gish, MD

Robert G Gish Consultants LLC/ St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center

San Diego, CA

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Nadege Gunn, MD

Impact Research 

Waco, TX

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Ira Jacobson, MD

NYU Langone Health

New York, NY

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Ray Kim, MD

Stanford University 

Palo Alto, CA

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Laura Kulik, MD 

Northwestern University

Chicago, IL

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Rohit Loomba, MD, MHSc

University of California, San Diego

San Diego, CA

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Craig McClain, MD

University of Louisville Health

Louisville, KY

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Mindie Nguyen, MD, MAS

Stanford University School of Medicine

Stanford, CA

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Vinod Rustgi, MD

Robert Wood Johnson Medical Group

New Brunswick, NJ

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Ronald Sokol, MD

Children's Hospital of Colorado

Denver, CO

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Robert Wong, MD

Stanford University

Palo Alto, CA

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Julie Bonn, MD

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

Cincinnati, OH

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Kenneth Cusi, MD

University of Florida

Gainesville, FL

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Richard S. Finn, MD

UCLA Health 

Santa Monica, CA

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Aparna Goel, MD

Stanford University School of Medicine

Redwood City, CA

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Ju-Tao Guo, MD

Baruch S. Blumberg Institute

Doylestown, PA

(Virtual)

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Prasun Jalal, MD

Baylor College of Medicine

Houston, TX

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Rohit Kohli, MBA, MS

Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Los Angeles, CA

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Craig Lammert, MD, MS

Indiana University School of Medicine

Indianapolis, IN

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Cara Mack, MD

Children’s Wisconsin

Milwaukee, WI

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Neil Mehta, MD

University of California

 San Francisco, CA

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Mazen Noureddin, MD, MHSc

Houston Research Institute

Houston, TX

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Nicola Santoro, MD, PhD

Yale University

New Haven, CT

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Mark Sulkowski, MD

Johns Hopkins University Medical Center

Baltimore, MD

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Stavra A. Xanthakos, MD, MS

Cincinnati Children's Hospital

Cincinnati, CA

Participating Advisors

PARTICIPATING ADVISORS

Manal Abdelmalek, MD, MPH

Chathur Acharya, MD

Maliha Ahmad, MD

Aijaz Ahmed, MD 

Joseph Ahn, MD

Alina Allen, MD

Mikhail Alper, PA

Victor Araya, MD 

Walid Ayoub, MD

Rita Basu, MD

Sherona Bau, MSN, ACNP, CNS

David Bernstein, MD

Julie Bonn, MD 

Brian Borg, MD

Christopher Bowlus, MD

Terry Box, MD

Kimberly Brown, MD 

Naga Chalasani, MD, FACG, FAASLD

Shaun Chandna, DO

Kyong-Mi Chang, MD

Gina Choi, MD.

Melanie Cree, MD

Kenneth Cusi, MD

Lily Dara, MD

Andrew DeLemos, MD 

Mark Deneau, MD, MS

David Dies, MD

Douglas Dieterich, MD

Udeme Ekong, MD

Hashem El-Serag, MD

Rima Fawaz, MD 

Richard Finn, MD

Steven Flamm, MD

Robert Fontana, MD

Alvin Freeman, MD

Bradley Freilich, MD

Scott Friedman, MD

Pierre Gholam, MD

HoChong Gilles, DNP, FNP-BC, AF-AASLD

Robert Gish, MD

Norman Gitlin, MD

Elizabeth Goacher, PA 

Aparna Goel, MD 

Regino Gonzalez-Peralta, MD

Fredric Gordon, MD

Stuart Gordon, MD

Andrea Gossard, APRN, CNP

Nidhi Goyal, MD

Nadege Gunn, MD

Nitika Gupta, MD, DCH, DNB, MRCPCH

James Hamilton, MD

Christina Hanson, FNP-C

Gideon Hirschfield, MA, MB, PhD

Reed Hogan, MD 

Patrick Horne, MSN, ARNP

Ke-Qin Hu, MD

Scott Isaacs, MD

Ira Jacobson, MD

Prasun Jalal, MD

Sujit Janardhan, MD, PhD, dipl ABOM

Arun Jesudian, MD

Patricia Jones, MD 

Binita Kamath, MD

Hetal Karsan, MD

Mandana Khalili, MD

Ray Kim, MD

Rohit Kohli, MBS, MS

Alyssa Kriegermeier, MD

Carina Kugelmas, MD 

Marcelo Kugelmas, MD

Laura Kulik MD 

Sonal Kumar, MD MPH

Paul Kwo, MD

Michelle Lai, MD, MPH 

Craig Lammert, MD, MS

Jeffrey Lazarus, PhD, MIH, MA

Brian Lee, MD

Dan Leung, MD

Rohit Loomba, MD, MHSc

Willis Maddrey, MD

Haripriya Maddur, MD

Mitchell Mah'moud, MD

Richard Manch, MD

Parvez Mantry, MD

Paul Martin, MD 

Mercedes Martinez, MD

Anthony Martinez, MD 

Craig McClain, MD

Neil Mehta, MD

Jessica Mellinger, MD, MSc

Edward Mena, MD

Mack Mitchell, MD

Naveen Mittal, MD

Apurva Modi, MD, MS, MHSc

Martin Moehlen, MD 

Ann Moore, NP

Santiago Munoz, MD

Milton Mutchnick, MD

Mindie Nguyen, MD, MAS

​Mazen Noureddin, MD, MHSc

Emily Owen, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP

Nikkil Pai, MD

Calvin Pan, MD

Brian Pearlman, MD

Anna Peters, MD

Nikolaos Pyrsopoulos, MD

Natarajan Ravendhran, MD

Nancy Reau, MD

Rajender Reddy, MD

Fredric Regenstein, MD

Justin Reynolds, MD 

Nicole Rich, MD, MSCS

Marina Roytman, MD

Vinod Rustgi, MD

Sammy Saab, MD

Nicola Santoro, MD, PhD

Jeffrey Schwimmer, MD

Muhammad Sheikh, MD

Kenneth Sherman, MD, PhD

Akshay Shetty, MD

Mitchell Shiffman, MD

Jasleen Singh, MD

Jihad Slim, MD 

Coleman Smith, MD

Ronald Sokol, MD 

Jessica Strzepka, MD 

Feng Su, MD 

Mark Sulkowski, MD

Shikha Sundaram, MD

Hugo Vargas, MD

Robert Venick, MD

John Vierling, MD

Miriam Vos, MD, MSPH 

Raj Vuppalanchi, MD

Hani Wadei, MD 

Robert Wong, MD

Carrie Ruby Wong, M.D., Ph.D.

Manida Wungjiranirun, MD

Stavra Xanthakos, MD, MS

Kidist Yimam, MD

Ziad Younes, MD

Zobair Younossi, MD 

Kali Zhou, MD

Venue

VENUE DETAILS

Fairmont Scottsdale Princess
7575 E Princess Dr, Scottsdale, AZ 85255

A limited discount room block is available at the Fairmont Scottsdale Princess from Wednesday, April 3rd, to Saturday, April 6th. Don't miss your chance to secure the special room rate of $389.00 per night plus taxes and fees. This rate is available on a first-come, first-served basis and expires on March 15, 2024. 

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Sponsors

Thank you to our 2024

conference sponsors!

Fees

IN-PERSON REGISTRATION FEES

Disclaimer: Industry-employed healthcare providers are not permitted to register or attend the conference unless sponsoring the meeting. Registrants must be active healthcare providers in a community or academic setting.

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JANUARY 8, 2024
 

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JANUARY 8, 2024
 

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$100.00
 

MD/DO
 

$275.00
 

PA/NP/RN

$175.00
 

Fellow/Student/Trainee 

Complimentary 
 

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