William Bernal

William Bernal is Professor of Liver Critical Care Medicine in the Liver Intensive Therapy Unit at the Institute of Liver Studies at Kings College Hospital in London UK. He is part of a small consultant team running a 19 bedded specialist intensive care unit devoted to the care of critically-ill patients with severe liver and pancreatic disease, which serves one of the largest liver transplantation programs in Europe

Deirdre A Kelly


Professor Deirdre Kelly is Professor of Paediatric Hepatology at the University of Birmingham and Founding Director of the Liver Unit for Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. She is a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin.

Grace L Guo

Grace L. Guo, MBBS, PhD, FAASLD, is a professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy in the Rutgers University. She received a MBBS degree from the West China University of Medical Science (Now the West China Medical Center of Sichuan University), and a PhD degree in Toxicology from the University of Kansa Medical Center. Her postdoctoral training was obtained from the NCI, NIH, with Dr. Frank Gonzalez. Dr. Guo has been a faculty in the University of Kansas Medical Center from 2004 to 2012 and in Rutgers University since 2012.

Michael L Schilsky

Michael Schilsky, MD FAASLD is Professor of Medicine and Surgery at the Yale School of Medicine, Medical Director for Adult Liver Transplant at the Yale New Haven Transplant Center and Director of the Center for Excellence for Wilson disease at Yale. Dr. Schilsky received his medical degree from the University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine before completing his residency, fellowship and pos-doctoral training in GI and liver diseases at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He then became a faculty member at Einstein and was part of their Liver Research Center.

Riccardo Superina

I am a pediatric surgeon trained in transplantationand have directed the liver transplant program at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital since its inception. I have a special interest in disorders of the liver in children including abnormalities of portal circulation, biliary atresia and pediatric liver tumors.

Elizabeth C Verna

Dr. Elizabeth Verna is the Frank Cardile Associate Professor of Medicine and the Director of Hepatology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, where she practices as transplant hepatologist. Dr. Verna has an active clinical research program in end-stage liver disease and liver transplantation and is the Director of Clinical Research for the Columbia University Transplant Clinical Research Center. She has been involved in the AASLD since the beginning of her career and is now particularly honored to Chair the AASLD Practice Guidelines Committee.

Stephanie Rutledge

Following gastroenterology and transplant hepatology fellowships at Mount Sinai Hospital, Stephanie joined the faculty at Weill-Cornell Medical Center/New York Presbyterian Hospital in July 2023 to pursue an academic career focused on clinical/translational research in hepatology.

Neehar D. Parikh

Neehar Parikh MD, MS, FAASLD, is an Associate Professor of Transplant Hepatology and Medical Director of the Liver Tumor Program and Director of Clinical Hepatology at the University of Michigan. He completed his residency, chief residency and gastroenterology and transplant hepatology training at Northwestern University in Chicago. He also received a Masters Degree in Health Services and Outcome Research from Northwestern University in 2013. His research interests include management of complications of cirrhosis and the early detection and treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma.

Harrys A Torres

Harrys A. Torres, MD, FACP, FIDSA, FAASLD is a Professor of Medicine in the Department of Infectious Diseases, Infection Control, and Employee Health and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. He is board-certified in internal medicine and infectious disease, with additional accreditations in HIV/AIDS and Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

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