Michael Lucey, MD, FAASLD is a faculty member and Chief of the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology within the Department of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin, School of Medicine and Public Health. He is Co-Medical Director of the Digestive Health Center at UW Hospital and Clinics, a regional center known for its outstanding multi-disciplinary outpatient clinic that treat diseases of the digestive tract, liver, and pancreas. Dr. Lucey is Medical Director of the UW Liver Transplant Program. Dr. Lucey teaches gastrointestinal and hepatic topics to students in MD programs, provides classroom and clinical instruction to residents and fellows, and serves as a research mentor to undergraduate students, graduate students, trainees, and junior faculty members.

Dr. Lucey previously served on the Governing Board as Treasurer and has been a member of several AASLD committees, including the Nominating Committee and the Practice Guidelines Committee, along with chairing the Journals Publications Committee. He also was the inaugural Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Liver Disease and served in that role from 2011 until 2017.

Oren Fix, MD, MSc, FAASLD is Professor of Medicine and the Medical Director of Liver Transplantation at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He graduated from SUNY at Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine and completed his internal medicine residency and gastroenterology fellowship at Boston University Medical Center. He earned a Master of Science in Epidemiology at the Boston University School of Public Health before completing his training in transplant hepatology at the University of California San Francisco. In addition to board certifications in internal medicine, gastroenterology, and transplant hepatology, Dr. Fix is also board-certified in clinical informatics and serves as one of UNC’s Lead Informatics Physicians.

Dr. Fix received NIH funding as a site principal investigator for the Acute Liver Failure Study Group and was among the original investigators of the ACCELERATE-AH consortium studying early liver transplantation for alcohol-associated hepatitis.

Dr. Fix has served multiple leadership roles in AASLD, including Chair of the Training and Workforce Committee, Chair of the Maintenance of Certification Committee, Steering Committee of the Clinical Practice SIG, Chair of the GI/Transplant Hepatology Pilot Training Task Force, Chair of the Abstract Review Committee, Co-Chair of the COVID-19 Task Force’s Clinical Oversight and Education Subcommittee, and member of the Nominating Committee. He has served on the editorial boards of Liver Transplantation and Hepatology Communications and as a guest editor for Clinical Liver Disease.

Tamar H. Taddei, MD, FAASLD, currently serves as Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases) and Vice Chief of Faculty Development (Digestive Diseases) at Yale School of Medicine and Chief of Gastroenterology at the Veterans Affairs Connecticut Health Care System. Dr. Taddei received her undergraduate, medical, and clinical medicine training at Georgetown University. She obtained fellowship training in gastroenterology and hepatology at Yale University. She is a board-certified gastroenterologist with a certificate of added qualification in transplant hepatology.

Dr. Taddei’s clinical interests focus on developing systems and programs to deliver outstanding multidisciplinary care to people with liver disease and liver cancer. Her research focuses on improving outcomes in these populations through observational studies and multicenter clinical trials.