Reflecting on AASLD’s Impact in 2025
In 2025, AASLD advanced science, strengthened education, shaped public policy, expanded global engagement, and brought the...
Elizabeth Verna, MD, MSc, FAASLD, FAST
Councilor-at-Large
Elizabeth Verna, MD, MSc, FAASLD, FAST
Dr. Elizabeth Verna is the Frank Cardile Associate Professor of Medicine 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 as well as the Director of Hepatology Research for the Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases.
AASLD and AST Announce Two New Practice Guidelines
Adult Liver Transplantation: Candidate Evaluation and Adult Liver Transplantation: Diagnosis and Post-Transplant Management of...
AASLD Announces New Co-Editors-in-Chief for HEPATOLOGY
ALEXANDRIA, Virginia — The American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) is pleased to announce the appointment...
AASLD & Partner Organizations Sound the Alarm: Reverse ACIP’s Hepatitis B Birth Dose Rollback Now
The American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) and its undersigned partner organizations, American College of...
AASLD Announces Update to Metabolic Dysfunction‐Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD) Practice Guidance
New guidance provides clinicians with practical, evidence-based criteria for patient selection, comorbidity management, and...
Statement from AASLD: AASLD Acknowledges Withdrawal of Obeticholic Acid for Primary Biliary Cholangitis and Announces Upcoming Guideline Update
The American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) acknowledges the recent market withdrawal of obeticholic acid...
AASLD Announces New Practice Guideline on Treatment of Chronic Hepatitis B
The American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) and the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) are...
Hepatitis B
AASLD develops evidence-based practice guidelines which are updated regularly by a multi-disciplinary panel of experts, including hepatologists, and include recommendations of preferred approaches to the diagnostic, therapeutic, and preventive aspects of care. AASLD also provides practice tools to assist with learning and implementing the new recommendations.