Nancy Reau, MD, is Professor of Internal Medicine, Richard B. Capps Chair of Hepatology, Associate Director of Solid Organ Transplantation, and Section Chief of Hepatology at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, IL. She received her medical degree from The Ohio State University College of Medicine in Columbus, where she completed a residency and fellowship in gastroenterology/hepatology followed by a second fellowship in advanced transplant hepatology at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD.

Dr. James Park is a Professor of Medicine at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. He serves as Co-Director of the Northwell Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation and Chief of the Division of Hepatology, Medicine Service Line at Northwell Health. Dr. Park earned his medical degree from the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo, followed by an internal medicine residency at NYU Medical Center.

HoChong Gilles obtained her master's in nursing from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1999 and her Doctorate in Nursing Practice from the University of Virginia in 2018. With over 25 years of experience as a Nurse Practitioner in Hepatology, she serves as the Clinical Program Director for the Gastroenterology and Hepatology Division and Assistant Director of GI Research in Richmond, Virginia. Her clinical and research interests include viral hepatitis, MASLD, portal hypertension and hepatocellular carcinoma.

Dawn Drazek is a hepatology nurse practitioner with Atrium Health Liver Care & Transplant. Dawn is an Associate Fellow of the AASLD (AF-AASLD), former AASLD NP/PA Clinical Hepatology Fellowship awardee, and was awarded as an AASLD Mid-Career Hepatology Scholar. She has been practicing in liver disease and transplant since 2005 as a liver transplant coordinator at the Penn Transplant Institute and as a Hepatology nurse practitioner with Atrium Health since 2015.

Dr. Burchill is an associate professor of medicine in the division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the University of Colorado. His research aims to define the immune response in the liver during the progression of of chronic liver disease with a focus on dysfunction in both the liver lymphatic system and liver infiltrating T cells.

Hellmut G. Augustin is Professor of Vascular Biology at the Medical Faculty Mannheim of Heidelberg University, Head of the Division for Vascular Oncology and Metastasis Research at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), and Managing Director of the European Center for Angioscience at Heidelberg University, Germany. Trained as a Veterinary Pathologist (Hannover, Germany) and as PhD in Experimental Pathology (Cornell University, USA), he worked previously as Assistant Professor at the University of Göttingen, Germany and as Department Head at the Tumor Biology Center in Freiburg, Germany.

Karen Kristine Sørensen, DVM, PhD, is Professor and Head of Vascular Biology Research Group, Department of Medical Biology, University of Tromsø (UiT) - The Arctic University of Norway. The group studies the biology of liver sinusoidal endothelial cells (LSECs) with focus on the specialized function of these endothelial cells in scavenging and filtration of blood borne macromolecules and nanoparticles. LSECs represent a unique, specialized, endothelium, which is vital for the metabolism and functional homeostasis of the liver.

Brian Thorsen is the Director of the PSC Partners Patient Registry. He received his B.A. in Statistics from UC Berkeley, and began his career in math education. Since his PSC diagnosis in 2020, and joining PSC Partners staff in 2022, he has been working to empower patients like him to be active participants and collaborators in research.

I completed medical school at Tufts University school of Medicine, Internal Medicine residency at University of Pennsylvania, and Gastroenterology and Transplant Hepatology fellowships at Yale University. I am an attending transplant hepatologist at the University of Washington where I serve as the medical director for Northwest Hepatology and as core faculty for the GI fellowship. I am also a part of a multidisciplinary group for hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia working to build a center of excellence.