Winston Dunn, MD, FAASLD
Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, University of Kansas Medical Center

Dr. Winston Dunn is a hepatologist and Professor of Medicine at the University of Kansas Medical Center, specializing in metabolic dysfunction–associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), alcohol-associated liver disease (ALD), and advanced fibrosis. His research integrates clinical epidemiology, real-world data, and machine learning to improve noninvasive diagnostics and patient stratification for therapeutic trials.

Helena Cortez-Pinto (MD, PhD) is a specialist in gastroenterology and is dedicated predominantly to hepatology: steatotic liver disease, advanced liver disease, and public health. She is Full professor of Medicine, at Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa (FMUL). Director of Clínica Universitária de Gastrenterologia, and Coordinator of the Hepatology Unit of CHLN, Portugal. President of the Scientific Council of FMUL since 2022. Past President of United European Gastroenterology (UEG) (2022-2023).

Steven L. Flamm, MD is a Professor of Medicine and Clinical Director of Network Development and Outreach for the Transplant Service Line. Director of Research in the Section of Hepatology at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois. Formerly served as the Chief of the Hepatology Program and Medical Director of Liver Transplantation at Feinberg School of Medicine. Dr. Flamm received his MD degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

Dr. Bansal has been on faculty at Mount Sinai since 2001. In addition to maintaining an NIH funded research program focused on molecular mechanism of liver fibrosis with seminal contributions to our understanding of liver fibrosis in people living with HIV, Dr.

Naim Alkhouri, MD, FAASLD, DABOM

Wendy Spearman: MBChB, MMed, PhD, FCP(SA), FRCP (London)

Wendy Spearman is Emeritus Professor of Medicine and a Consultant Hepatologist in the Division of Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Cape Town. She was appointed as a University of Cape Town Senior Scholar in July 2024.
She was Head of the Division of Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town and Head of Liver Transplantation, Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa from 1/01/1998 - 30/06/2024.

Prof Jeffrey V Lazarus (PhD, MIH, MA) is a full professor at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy and the head of the Public Health Liver Group at ISGlobal, where he is a research professor. His decade-long career at WHO's Regional Office for Europe was followed by serving as the Vice-Chair of the EASL International Liver Foundation, Board Chair of the foundation AFEW International and as the first director of Health Systems Global.

He was born in Isparta, Turkey in 1952.
In 1976, He graduated from the Ankara University Medical Faculty, where in 1980 he became a specialist in Internal Medicine, and in 1985 in Gastroenterology. In 1988, He became an associate professor and in 1994, a professor of Gastroenterology.

Nelia Hernández (Montevideo, 1969) is a clinical physician who completed gastroenterology training at the University of Uruguay (UDELAR). Her internships at renowned hepatology centers in France and Argentina were responsible for her early decision to dedicate herself exclusively to assisting patients with liver and biliary diseases, obtaining a diploma in hepatology from the Faculty of Medicine of UDELAR.

Tamar H. Taddei, MD, FAASLD, currently serves as Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases) and Vice Chief of Faculty Development (Digestive Diseases) at Yale School of Medicine and Chief of Gastroenterology at the Veterans Affairs Connecticut Health Care System. Dr. Taddei received her undergraduate, medical, and clinical medicine training at Georgetown University. She obtained fellowship training in gastroenterology and hepatology at Yale University. She is a board-certified gastroenterologist with a certificate of added qualification in transplant hepatology.