Dr. Tess Bittermann is a transplant hepatologist and epidemiologist. She recently transitioned from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia to a joint position at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital and the Queensland Institute for Medical Research in Brisbane, Australia. Her research focuses on the practice heterogeneity and understanding the comparative risks and benefits of immunosuppression strategies among transplant recipients and patients with autoimmune hepatitis.

Moderator: Coskun O Demirtas, MD
Presenters: Augusto Villanueva, MD, PhD; Neehar Parikh, MD, MS; Manon Allaire,
MD

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Dr. Tassos Grammatikopoulos is a Consultant in Paediatric Hepatology at King's College Hospital and Senior Lecturer at King's College London. With over 20 years of experience in pediatric medicine, he holds prestigious Fellowships from both the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease (FAASLD) and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (FRCPCH).

Dr. Alexander Kuo is Professor of Medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. He serves as the Medical Director of Liver Transplantation and Program Director of the Transplant Hepatology Fellowship.

I am a clinical Gastroenterology fellow at Duke University. I am interested in pursuing a career in transplant hepatology. My research interests include alcohol-related liver disease and women's health issues in liver transplantation.

David C. Muddiman is the Jacob and Betty Belin Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Associate Head of Chemistry and the Founding Director, Molecular Education, Technology and Research Innovation Center (METRIC) at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC (2018-2023). Prior to moving his research group to North Carolina State University in 2005, David was a Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Founder and Director of the Proteomics Research Center at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Rochester, MN.

Christopher Woodrell is a board-certified internist and hospice and palliative medicine physician. He is a clinical research scientist with an appointment as Associate Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Staff Physician at the James J. Peters VA Medical Center in the Bronx. His research interests include developing and testing palliative and supportive interventions to improve the quality of life of people living with cancer and their families, and particularly those with hepatocellular carcinoma.