Aspiring Gastroenterologist | PGY-1 IM Resident | Passionate about digestive health, research and global health equity

Shawn is a second year GI fellow at UCSF. She previously received her BS at MIT, MD at Emory University, and completed internal medicine residency at NYU. She also served as the Health Equity Chief Resident at NYU. She was previously an AASLD Emerging Liver Scholar 2024-2025. She is a current contributor to the Liver Fellow Network's "Why?" Series and the Series Co-lead beginning 2026. At UCSF, she is a trainee representative serving on the UCSF GME Committee and Health Equity Council.

Terry Yip is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics and Co-Director (Data Science) of the Medical Data Analytics Centre at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on chronic hepatitis B and MASLD. He is devoted to real-world big data research to understand the epidemiology, natural history, assessment, treatment, and clinical outcome prediction of chronic hepatitis B and MASLD through rigorous statistical analyses and data analytics. He has over 250 publications in peer-reviewed journals.

Dr. Singal is a Professor of Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center and serves as Chief of Hepatology and Medical Director of the Liver Tumor Program. He has over 400 peer-reviewed original publications and has been awarded the Willis Maddrey Distinguished Chair in Liver Disease.

Janet Gripshover, DNP, MBA, AF-AASLD, is a highly experienced Family Nurse Practitioner and Nurse Manager for Cedars-Sinai's Liver Transplant Program in Los Angeles. With over 15 years of clinical and leadership expertise in hepatology, Dr. Gripshover is recognized for her commitment to advancing the role of Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) in liver care.

Dr. Nizar Mukhtar completed his gastroenterology and transplant hepatology training at the University of California, San Francisco. He currently serves as Director of Hepatology at the Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center and Program Director for the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Gastroenterology Fellowship Program.

Prof. Vogel is a clinician scientist at the rank of a full professor at the University of Toronto, Canada. He is appointed as the Longo Family Chair in Liver Cancer Research and is leading a multi-pronged research program in basic and clinical science at the Toronto General Hospital and the Princess Margarete Cancer Center. Before joining UNH, he worked as senior consultant at Hannover Medical School for more than 20 years and still holds a research position there.

Alina M. Allen, M.D.,M.S. is Associate Professor of Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, where she serves as the Director of Hepatology and Director of the MASLD Clinic.

Dr. Melina Manolas is a board-certified internal medicine physician, endocrinologist, and Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College. She completed her MD and MPH degrees at Tulane University, residency at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell, and fellowship in Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism at Montefiore–Albert Einstein. She is a general endocrinologist but specializes in hepato-endocrinology with a focus on MASLD and MASH.