Maria Buti earned her medical degree at the University of Barcelona and her PhD in Internal Medicine at the University "Autónoma" de Barcelona, Spain. She is currently Professor of Medicine and Consultant of Hepatology at the Hospital General Universitari Valle Hebron, Barcelona. Dr Butí has worked in viral hepatitis for the last 25 years, particularly in diagnosis and therapy of hepatitis B and C. She has been published more than 600 papers in the field of liver disease in peer review journals such as The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, Journal of Hepatology and numerous contributions to books
Dr Butí was President of the Spanish Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, and an active member of the EASL, and the AASLD and various professional societies. Currently she is the chair of public Health and Policy at EASL and associate editor of Journal of Hepatology