Amy S. Tang, MD is a primary care internist and Director of Viral Hepatitis & TB Programs at North East Medical Services in the San Francisco Bay Area. She led the development of a simplified hepatitis B guidance for primary care providers hosted on Hepatitis B Online and served on the writing group for the 2025 AASLD/IDSA Hepatitis B Treatment Guidelines. She serves on the Governance Council for Hep B Free and has served on the CDC's Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices working group on hepatitis B immunization.

Dr. Lim is a Professor of Medicine and Vice-Chief of the Section of Digestive Diseases at Yale University School of Medicine where he serves as Director of Clinical Hepatology and Associate Medical Chief of YNHHS Digestive Health. He has served the AASLD in several roles, including the HBV SIG steering committee, Viral Hepatitis Elimination Taskforce, AASLD-IDSA HCV guidance panel, and AASLD-IDSA HBV guideline panel.

Ravshan Yakubov, MBA, CPA, CA is an accounting and finance professional who lives in Ottawa, Canada. Born and raised in Uzbekistan, Ravshan lived, worked and studied in Europe, the USA and Canada.

Shaibu Issa is a passionate global hepatitis advocate from Tanzania with lived experience of hepatitis B. He is the Founder and Director of Tanzania Health Alliance (THA) and a Board Member representing the African Region at the World Hepatitis Alliance (WHA). He also serves on the Global Community Advisory Board (HBV-CAB) of the Hepatitis B Foundation and the Steering Committee of the International Liver Cancer Movement. After losing his brother to liver cancer, Shaibu dedicated his life to raising awareness, fighting stigma, and promoting access to testing, vaccination, and care.

Nicole Wright Derks is a volunteer with Blue Faery: The Adrienne Wilson Liver Cancer Association and a healthcare professional with over 17 years of experience. She brings both clinical expertise and deeply personal perspective as a caregiver and daughter to a mother living with hepatocellular carcinoma. Nicole's advocacy is rooted in compassion, resilience, and firsthand understanding of the emotional and practical challenges families face in healthcare.

Michael Charlton, MBBS, is an internationally renowned specialist in liver diseases and transplant medicine with a particular expertise in the diagnosis, treatment and management of fatty liver disease (steatotic liver disease), nonalcoholic steatohepatitis and viral hepatitis. He has served as president of the International Liver Transplant Society and served as a principal investigator on grants and as a study section member for the National Institutes of Health, including studies of the pathophysiology of fatty liver disease (steatotic liver disease) and viral hepatitis. Dr.

Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center

After a high-flying, 20-year career as an IT consultant for Ernst & Young LLC and Verizon Business, Beth Lehman faced a life-altering reckoning. Decades of grueling corporate travel had masked a severe battle with alcoholism, leading to a late-2019 diagnosis of advanced cirrhosis and liver cancer. On April 19, 2021, she received a life-saving liver transplant at the Piedmont Transplant Institute—an experience that left her feeling physically and spiritually reborn within hours of surgery.