Prof. Ajay Duseja is presently working as Professor and Head in the department of Hepatology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India. He did his MBBS in 1988, MD (Internal Medicine) in 1992 and DM (Gastroenterology) from PGIMER, Chandigarh in 1996. For last 30 years, he is working as Faculty with focused research in the field of Hepatology.

Calvin Q. Pan, MD, MACP, FAASLD, is a distinguished Professor of Medicine at NYU School of Medicine in New York, USA. He has held significant leadership roles in professional societies, including serving as Chair of Online Learning at the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD), Co-chair of the 2025 AASLD Hepatitis B Practice Guidelines, Co-chair of the 2025 Hepatitis B Guidelines of the World Gastroenterology Organization (WGO), and Chair of the Hepatitis B Special Interest Group<br><br>Dr. Pan's research focuses on viral hepatitis.

Mandana Khalili, MD, MAS is a Professor of Medicine at University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and the Director of Clinical and Translational Research in Hepatology and Chief of Clinical Hepatology at UCSF/San Francisco General Hospital. Her research focuses on addressing epidemiology, systemic complications and outcomes, novel therapies, and health policy related to viral hepatitis, steatotic liver disease (metabolic dysfunction-associated and alcohol related), cirrhosis and liver cancer.

I am a computational biologist by training and currently an Assistant Professor in the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. My primary research objective is to advance our understanding of autoimmune liver disease pathogenesis through the modeling of high-dimensional data, particularly genomics data. I have focused on single-cell genomics and spatial transcriptomics, utilizing both public and in-house profiling data to explore biological processes in health and disease.

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.