Speaker

Bernd Schnabl, MD, FAASLD

University of California, San Diego

Biography

Dr. Bend Schnabl is a trained gastroenterologist and physician-scientist. He received his MD degree from the University Freiburg in Germany. After finishing his residency in internal medicine, he completed a gastroenterology fellowship at Columbia University in New York City. He is currently Professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology at UC San Diego. Dr. Schnabl is staff physician and attending at the VA San Diego Medical Center in La Jolla and the UCSD Medical Center. He is the Director of the NIH-funded San Diego Digestive Diseases Research Center (SDDRC). His research focus is to understand the complex multi-directional interactions that occur between the gut microbiota and the liver.