Kazumichi Abe, MD, PhD is Associate Professor and Chief of the Gastroenterology Unit in the Department of Gastroenterology at Fukushima Medical University. He graduated from Fukushima Medical University in 1999 and obtained his PhD in 2008. From 2004 to 2007, he trained at the University of California, San Diego in molecular immunology. Dr. Abe's clinical and research interests focus on hepatology, particularly autoimmune liver diseases, chronic hepatitis, and mechanisms of liver injury and resilience.

Marios Nikolaidis, Ph.D. from Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN. Bioinformatician working with PSC and PBC related data. Primary expertise with metagenomic data. Also interested in metabolomics, exposomics and machine learning. Previous experience in genomics of pathogenic bacteria and viruses

Cara Mack, MD is a pediatric transplant hepatologist who joined the Medical College of Wisconsin (WI) and Children's WI in 2022 as Professor of Pediatrics and Division Chief for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition. Prior to this, Cara was faculty and Director of the GI Fellowship Training Program and Medical Director of the Liver Center at University of Colorado, Children's Hospital CO (2002-2022).

Dr. Arpan Patel is Assistant Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and a staff hepatologist at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System. His research and clinical programs aim to integrate principles of patient-centered care in the management of patients with serious illnesses affecting the liver. He has specific interest in patients with cirrhosis, liver cancer, and alcohol-associated liver disease.

I am a Consultant Transplant Hepatologist based at the Leeds Liver Unit focused on improving care and outcomes for patients with liver failure syndromes and before and after liver transplant.

I am a transplant hepatologist based in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Scotland. My clinical interests are in acute liver failure, palliative hepatology and sustainable hepatology.

Kay Anderson has been a Registered Nurse for over 40 years and has practiced nursing in the civilian sector, the Veterans Health System and as a United States Air Force Officer. In addition, she worked for several fortune 500 companies in the Health Care industry as a Senior Sales Executive where she worked closely with CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, and CNOs addressing their Organizations healthcare issues and fiscal needs. While in Maui, she served as a Board member and President of an AOAO and was responsible for their multi-million-dollar budget.

Professor of Medicine, University of Washington, Director of Hepatology, Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System.<br>My areas of interest include liver cancer screening and risk stratification, clinical epidemiology of chronic liver disease, cirrhosis, and HCC, prediction modeling, target trial emulation and the role of cholesterol in MASLD.