Dr. Ruby Mehta is a physician at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), where she has served for 12.5 years as a medical officer, Lead Physician, and now as Acting Associate Director for Therapeutic Review in the Division of Hepatology and Nutrition. She is board-certified in Pediatrics, Pediatric Gastroenterology, and Pediatric Transplant Hepatology, and completed her fellowship training at the Children's Hospital of Michigan and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Emory University. At the FDA, Dr.

Rohit Kohli MBBS, MS                                                           

MBBS-Armed Forces Medical College, University of Pune, India- 1993-1999

MS in Clinical Investigation, School of Public Health, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL- 2004-2006



Current Academic of Administrative Position:

Professor of Pediatrics (Clinical Scholar) University of Southern California,

Chief, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Prof. Josep M. Llovet is a full professor of Medicine at Hospital Clínic–University of Barcelona and at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, where he is the Director of the Liver Cancer Program. He has published approximately 400 papers, with an h-index of 150 and more than 140,000 citations, primarily in the field of liver cancer.

Dr. Vodkin is a transplant hepatologist at the University of California, San Diego. She is a dedicated educator across the Department of Medicine, and the program director for the transplant hepatology fellowship. Her clinical and research interests are in Fontan Associated Liver Disease, collaborating with a multidisciplinary team to look at nodule imaging and follow up, clinical management and combined heart-liver transplant.

Michael R. Lucey MD
Brief Biography
June 29, 2025

Prof. Mohamed Elbadry is a Professor of Endemic Medicine at Capital University in Cairo, Egypt, and a Consultant Hepatogastroenterologist with over two decades of clinical and academic experience. Prof. Elbadry's research focuses on hepatology, gastroenterology, and infectious diseases, with 55 international publications.

Mark Sonderup is the incumbent Head of the Division of Hepatology, Liver and Liver Transplant Clinic at the University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa

I am studying mechanisms of cell death escape by liver cancer cells as a consequence of oncogenic mutations and/or metabolic reprogramming. I obtained a Bachelor of Science in Molecular Biology, a Master of Science in Biomedical Sciences and a PhD in Experimental Oncology from University of Torino, Italy. After training as a visiting graduate student first and postdoctoral research fellow at the Cleveland Clinic and University of California San Diego, I joined Jecure Therapeutics as a research scientist for three years.

Dr. Tincopa completed her medical degree and residency in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins University. She completed gastroenterology and transplant hepatology fellowship at the University of Michigan. Dr. Tincopa has a Masters degree in Health and Healthcare Research from the University of Michigan and is also board certified in Obesity Medicine.