Dr. Scott L. Friedman is the Dean for Research Collaborations and Partnership at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He has performed pioneering research into the underlying causes of fibrosis associated with chronic liver disease. His work has spawned an entire field that is now realizing its translational and therapeutic potential. A 1979 graduate of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, he was a Medical Resident at the Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School, followed by a GI Fellowship at UCSF.

Dr. Christine Hsu is a transplant hepatologist, assistant research physician and staff clinician in the Liver Disease Branch at National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases at National Institute of Health. She is an adjunct assistant professor at Georgetown University. She is also the program director for the hepatology fellowship at NIDDK. Her research interests are in improving outcomes of alcohol associated liver disease and early detection of hepatocellular carcinoma using radiomics and artificial intelligence.

Staff physician at Central Virginia VA Health Care System and Professor of Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University. Clinical and research interests in steatotic liver disease spectrum, advanced liver disease and clinical nutrition.

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.

Dr. Andrew Muir is Professor of Medicine in the Duke University School of Medicine. Since 2014, he has led the Division of Gastroenterology at Duke. Dr. Muir maintains an active clinical practice that combines general and transplant hepatology. His research activities have included clinical trials to develop novel treatments for a variety of liver diseases as well as health services research with particular interest in access to care.

Wojciech (Wojtek) G. Polak, MD, PhD, FEBS, is a liver transplant and hepatobiliary surgeon and Surgical Director of the Liver Transplant Program at Erasmus MC University Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
His principal clinical and scientific interests include liver transplantation, donation after circulatory death, organ preservation and machine perfusion, and hepatobiliary surgery. He is the author or co-author of more than 200 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals and has an H-index of 42.

Dr Mitchell L Shiffman was the Chief of Hepatology Section and Medical Director of the Liver Transplant Program at the Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center in Richmond, VA from 1990-2009. He has been the Director of the Liver Institute of Virginia at Bon Secours Mercy Health since 2010. Dr Shiffman has published over 350 articles in peer reviewed medical journals invited reviews and/or book chapters, has edited 3 textbooks on liver disease has been the guest editor for 2 issues of Clinics in Liver Disease and was in the inaugural Fellow class of AASLD.