Dr. Manhal Izzy is Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where he serves as Director of Hepatology Research and Program Director of the Transplant Hepatology Fellowship. His research focuses on cardiometabolic disorders in patients with chronic liver disease and liver transplant recipients, with a particular emphasis on cirrhotic cardiomyopathy. Dr. Izzy's work has been supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI).
Dr. Norah Terrault is a transplant hepatologist, the Neil Kaplowitz Professor of Medicine and Chief of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases Division at the Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California.
David Thomas the Stanhope Bayne-Jones Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. His research is focused on hepatitis virus infections especially as they affect persons with HIV. Dr.
Ponni V. Perumalswami, MD, MS, FAASLD
Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry
Director, Alcohol Liver Disease Program
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
University of Michigan
Director, VA Liver Clinic
Gastroenterology Section
VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System
Investigator, Center for Clinical Management and Research VA HSR
Dr. Jessie Torgersen is an Assistant Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and Epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. She is the Director of the Penn Center for Viral Hepatitis at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center where she provides care focused on acute and chronic liver diseases in people with HIV (PWH) and people without HIV (PWoH). Dr.
Eduardo Yepez Guevara, MD, FACP, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Infectious Diseases, Infection Control and Employee Health at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. He also serves as Fellowship Program Associate Director for the Infectious Diseases Fellowship and Associate Program Director for the Transplant and Oncology Infectious Diseases Fellowship. Dr.
Kamron Pourmand, MD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine and Department of Medical Education at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He serves as a transplant hepatologist in the Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute at Mount Sinai. He provides specialized care to patients with acute and chronic liver disease, including cirrhosis, as well as caring for patients prior to and after liver transplantation.
Assistant Professor of Medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine, interested in the mechanisms of liver fibrosis and chronic liver disease
Dr. Ding is a William Warner Abercrombie professor of the Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology, and Therapeutics at KUMC. The Ding laboratory has been working on the role of autophagy in alcohol and drug-induced liver injury since 2009. The Ding Lab is particularly interested in how autophagy selectively removes cellular damage and excess organelles, such as mitochondria and lipid droplets, in hepatocytes. Dr. Ding has extensive expertise in organelle stress and quality control in cell death and innate immunity in the pathogenesis of alcohol-associated liver disease and liver cancer.
Dr. Sudha Kodali obtained her medical degree from India and completed her residency training in Internal Medicine in Texas followed by fellowship in Gastroenterology and Hepatology at University of Alabama in Birmingham, a master's degree in Clinical and Translational Science from the UAB School of Public Health during her fellowship training period.