Vincent Wong holds the position of Mok Hing Yiu Professor of Medicine and serves as the Head (Academic) of the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research primarily revolves around steatotic liver disease and liver fibrosis, with a particular focus on the development and application of non-invasive tests for screening, diagnosis and prognostication.
Professor of Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Maryam Haider, MD is the Chief fellow of Gastroenterology at the University of Chicago - Endeavor Health. Board certified in internal medicine, she earned her medical degree from Sharif Medical and Dental College in Pakistan and completed her residency at Wayne State University - Sinai Grace Hospital. Before beginning her fellowship, Dr. Haider served as an internal medicine faculty at Wayne State DMC Sinai Grace Hospital.
Valentina Medici MD, FAASLD, is a Professor in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at University of California Davis. Dr. Medici studied at University of Padova and University of California Davis. She conducts industry-funded clinical trials, including gene therapy, on Wilson disease and her basic science research on mouse models of aberrant copper metabolism has been funded by NIH. She is the Director of UC Davis Center of Excellence for Wilson disease.
Dr. Rachel Adams is the Physician Executive Director of the MedStar Palliative Care Service Line, which includes nine inpatient palliative care programs across hospitals in Washington, D.C. and Maryland. The service line also features PATCH, an outpatient telemedicine program, and a novel advance care planning initiative that helps ensure patients' wishes are thoughtfully gathered and documented in the medical record.<br><br>Dr. Adams also serves as an Assistant Professor of Medicine at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital (MGUH), where she works clinically.
Transplant Hepatologist at Northwell Health with a focus on Palliative Care and Care Coordination. I completed my Hospice & Palliative Medicine, Gastroenterology, and Transplant Hepatology training at Mount Sinai Hospital.
Dr. Gedallovich is a current Transplant Hepatology Fellow at Stanford University. Prior to this, she completed Gastroenterology fellowship at Stanford University and Hospice & Palliative Medicine fellowship at the University of California San Francisco.
Dr. Amar Bansal is a nephrologist and palliative care physician at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the Associate Program Director for the nephrology training program. He has an interest in AKI-HRS and serious illness communication. He is the course director for "GiTalk," a communication workshop based on VitalTalk designed for GI providers. It is held annually for GI fellows and APP's at UPMC.
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.
Dr. Marina Bárcena-Varela is a researcher at the Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón (IiSGM) in Madrid, Spain, where she holds a competitive national grant, Atracción de Talento–César Nombela, awarded by the Comunidad de Madrid. She is a former postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Oncological Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York.