Robert S. Brown, Jr., MD, MPH, FAASLD is the Vincent Astor Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. He received his AB from Harvard College, his MD from New York University and an MPH from the University of California, Berkeley. He did his residency at Beth Israel Hospital/Harvard Medical School, and a fellowship in gastroenterology and hepatology at UCSF. He has co-authored over 250 peer-reviewed articles with an H Index of 94 and is the current Editor-In-Chief for Liver Transplantation.