Dr. Kakar is a Professor of Pathology and Chief of GI-Hepatobiliary Pathology at University of California San Francisco (UCSF). He completed medical school in India and pathology residency at University of Illinois at Chicago followed by fellowships in GI/Hepatobiliary Pathology and Molecular Pathology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. He joined UCSF in 2002, where he has served as the Chief of the GI/Hepatobiliary Pathology and GI/Hepatobiliary Pathology fellowship director since 2015.

Dr. Nicole Loo completed her Gastroenterology Fellowship - Hepatology Investigator Track at Yale New Haven Hospital under the mentorship of Dr. Guadalupe Garcia-Tsao. She completed her Internal Medicine Residency and Transplant Hepatology Fellowship at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. She is currently a transplant hepatologist and Program Director of the Transplant Hepatology Fellowship at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL. She loves the liver so much she named her son, "O-liver."

Jimyeong Son is a transplant hepatology nurse practitioner at North Shore University Hospital, where she provides care for patients with advanced liver disease, including pre- and post-transplant management. She was selected for the 2024 AASLD Emerging Liver Advanced Practice Provider Award and currently serves as an Associate Lead of the AASLD Hepatitis B/Delta SIG Committee.

Dawn Drazek is a hepatology nurse practitioner with 20 years of practice in hepatology. Dawn is an Associate Fellow of the AASLD (AF-AASLD), former AASLD NP/PA Clinical Hepatology Fellowship awardee, and was awarded as an AASLD Mid-Career Hepatology Scholar. She has been practicing in liver disease and transplant since 2005 as a liver transplant coordinator at the Penn Transplant Institute, as a Hepatology nurse practitioner with Atrium Health since 2015, and recently joined Pedestal Health (formerly Target RWE) as the APP Clinical Lead for Hepatology.

Amanda Chaney is a nurse practitioner and Senior Director of Advanced Practice Provider Services at Cleveland Clinic in Florida, staffing over 470 nurse practitioners (including nurse anesthetists), physician assistants, and certified anesthesiologist assistants. Prior to this role, Dr. Chaney served at Mayo Clinic as chair of advanced practice and practiced as a transplant hepatology nurse practitioner.

Oren Fix, MD, MSc, FAASLD is Professor of Medicine, Medical Director of Liver Transplantation, a Lead Informatics Physician, and the Associate Program Director of the Clinical Informatics Fellowship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is board certified in Clinical Informatics, a certified Epic Physician Builder, Chair of the Epic Hepatology Specialty Steering Board, and an Epic Exemplar for hepatology. He serves the AASLD as Councilor-at-Large on the Governing Board, Associate Editor of Liver Transplantation, and co-chair of the Workforce Task Force.

Dr. Volk is a transplant hepatologist and health services researcher. He previously ran a large liver transplant program at Loma Linda, and currently serves as Chair of Medicine at Baylor Scott and White.

Senior Consultant, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Singapore General Hospital
Director, Digital Health Transformation, SingHealth Duke-NUS Transplant Centre (SDTC)
Deputy Chief Medical Information Officer, Singapore General Hospital

Dr. Kono is a transplant hepatologist at UC San Diego, with expertise in liver imaging and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) diagnosis. She graduated from Kyoto University School of Medicine and trained in hepatology and radiology. Dr. Kono is a recognized leader in contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS), particularly for liver imaging. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles and chaired the CEUS LI-RADS working group from 2014 to 2020, during which she established the CEUS LI-RADS algorithm.

Matteo specialized in Internal Medicine at Florence Medical University in 2011. He worked as consultant Physician in Internal, acute and emergency medicine training in Clinical Ultrasound. During his internship he developed a specific interest in hepatology and non invasive assessment of liver disease. From 2013 to 2017 he worked at the Institute for Liver and Digestive Health, University College of London - Royal Free Hospital where he established his expertise and gained experience in interventional ultrasound.