Michael Kriss, MD, FAST, is a hepatologist at Essentia Health-St. Mary's Medical Center in Duluth, Minnesota, where he provides advanced hepatology care to patients throughout the Northland. Previously, he was on the faculty at the University of Colorado, serving as a transplant hepatologist within the liver transplant program. During his time there, he held several leadership roles, including Physician Informaticist for the Colorado Center for Transplantation Care, Research and Education (CCTCARE) and Associate Program Director of the Transplant Hepatology Fellowship.

I am an Associate Professor of Medicine and Program Director of the Transplant Hepatology Fellowship at the University of Kansas Health System. I'm a gastroenterologist, transplant hepatologist, and clinical informaticist at KU. I currently serve as the Gastroenterology and Hepatology Informatics Officer and Solid Organ Transplant Informatics Lead. I'm an active member in the AASLD Communication and Technology Committee in addition to the Clinical Informatics and Digital Health Special Interest Group.

Emily Schonfeld is a transplant hepatologist and an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of GI and Hepatology at Weill Cornell Medicine.

Dr. Lowry completed her medical training at Kansas University Medical Center including medical school and combined residency in internal medicine and pediatrics. She completed a chief residency year for both her combined and categorical internal medicine programs.  Dr. Lowry is a member of both Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) and Gold Humanism Honor Societies.

Dr. Sharma, Professor of Medicine, is a transplant hepatologist and health services researcher with a joint appointment at University of Michigan and VA Ann Arbor, Michigan. Her clinical and research interests include complications of portal hypertension, liver transplant outcomes pertaining to allocation, access and disparities and renal dysfunction before and after liver transplant with special focus of hepatorenal syndrome. She has been an AASLD member for over twenty years and served on many committees and SIGs. She is currently serving as Chair of Liver Transplant and Surgery SIG.

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. Marie Budev is currently the Medical Director of the Cleveland Clinic Lung Transplant and Heart - Lung Transplant Program. Dr. Budev completed her residency and chief residency at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and went on to subspecialize in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Budev completed her master's in public health with a focus on study design during her time as Chief Resident and Woman's Health Fellow. Dr. Budev joined the Pulmonary/ Critical Care staff of the Cleveland Clinic in 2005.

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