Jorge Marrero, MD, FAASLD

Biography

Jorge A. Marrero, MD, MS, is the T. Grier Miller Professor and Chief, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He is an expert in liver transplantation and hepatocellular carcinoma. His research interest in the early detection and risk-stratification of hepatocellular carcinoma. He leads a large study funded by the NCI on the early detection of liver cancer. He has been a successful mentor to several faculty that have gone on to obtain K awards and NIH research grants in areas of liver cancer, liver transplantation, healthcare disparities, and colon cancer screening.

Dr. Marrero received his gastroenterology training at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he discovered his interest in liver disease and liver transplantation. He was then a faculty at the University of Michigan where his clinical and research focuses on how to detect early-stage liver cancer in patients with liver disease. He created the Liver Cancer Program at the Cancer Center. He then moved to UT Southwestern to create the liver transplant program, which has grown from to one of the largest in the nation, and was able to grow liver research.

Dr. Marrero is a founding member of the International Liver Cancer Association and a member of the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease, American College of Gastroenterology, and AGA. Dr. Marrero has lectured globally and written over 200 articles and book chapters for publications such as The New England Journal of Medicine, The Journal of the American Medical Association, Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Gastroenterology, among others. He served as an Associate Editor for Gastroenterology.