Anna Mae Diehl, MD, FAASLD

Biography

Anna Mae Diehl, MD, FAASLD

Dr. Anna Mae Diehl is the Florence McAlister Professor of Medicine at Duke University. She is a physician scientist and clinical hepatologist. Her lab-based research activities focus on basic mechanisms of liver repair and complement her translational/clinical research programs in alcoholic- and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Dr Diehl's basic research program has enjoyed uninterrupted NIH RO1 support since 1990. She has been the Principal Investigator for the NASH CRN UO1 clinical research program at Duke since its inception almost 20 years ago. Dr. Diehl has published 594 papers with over 73,000 citations and an H-index of 138 according to Scholar GPS.

Dr. Diehl is viewed internationally as an authority on liver regeneration and fatty liver disease. Her research contributions to the fields of regenerative medicine, alcohol-related liver disease and NAFLD have been acknowledged by election to membership in the American Society for Clinical Investigation and Association of Academic Professors, as well as awards such as an NIH/NIAAA Merit Award, the NIAAA Mendelson Award, the Duke Distinguished Faculty Award, and the AASLD Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award. She has also been the primary research mentor for over 70 individuals and received mentoring awards from Johns Hopkins, Duke and the AGA.