Ayse Aytaman, MD, FACG, AGAF, FAASLD

Biography

Ayşe Aytaman, MD earned her medical degree from the University of Vienna, with residency and fellowship in gastroenterology and hepatology at SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn. She joined the faculty at VA New York Harbor HCS in Brooklyn. She created the first multidisciplinary viral hepatitis team in VA 1997 with inclusion of clinical pharmacy and liver psychology in the VA system and was instrumental in VISN wide and national HCV eradication in the VA system. In 2012, with a grant from VA Public Health, she established the first multi-facility and multi-disciplinary, multi-facility VISN wide hepatocellular carcinoma team and SCAN ECHO liver cancer tumor board. With strong education emphasis she has organized yearly VA National Liver Cancer Summits 2012 to 2019 with multiple national spread sites for the regional liver tumor boards. She is in VA national hepatology team, Liver cancer field advisory board and national oncology clinical pathways team. Her research interests are in the filed of liver cancer, cancer screening and health outcomes.
Dr. Aytaman is also an integral part of the GI and hepatology fellowship program and has been involved in the training of over 200 GI fellows now across the nation.
She is a member of ACG, AGA, EASL and TASL (Turkish Association of the Study of Liver diseases).