Associate Professor of Medicine
Gastroenterology
Duke University School of Medicine
Durham, NC

Professor McCaughan is a transplant hepatologist with laboratory interests in the cellular and molecular basis of liver injury,cancer ,liver allograft rejection and tolerance .Major clinical interests include HBV,HCV .MAFLD ,Liver transplant outcomes and the reversal of extrahepatic diseases by liver transplantation.He has published over 600 papers with a HI of 97 ( GS)

Mia Lozada, MD was raised in Honolulu, Hawaii and has worked at Gallup Indian Medical Center (GIMC, Indian Health Service) in New Mexico as a General Internist (a mix of primary care and hospital/ICU medicine) since August 2012. She spearheaded the Readmissions Task Force and started the first Schwartz Center Rounds site in New Mexico at GIMC for staff well-being. She is Board Certified in Addiction Medicine and coordinates the Medication for Addiction Treatment (MAT) Buprenorphine prescriber program at GIMC.

Dr. Ashley Spann is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition with a secondary appointment in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She completed internal medicine training at Duke University Medical Center followed by fellowships in gastroenterology, clinical informatics, and transplant hepatology at Vanderbilt along with a Master of Science in Applied Clinical Informatics.

Kim M. Olthoff, MD, is the Donald Guthrie Professor of Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania, Chief of the Division of Transplant Surgery, and Assistant Dean for Faculty Affairs for the Perelman School of Medicine. Dr. Olthoff attended the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and completed a residency in general surgery followed by a fellowship in transplantation and hepatobiliary surgery at UCLA, joining the Penn faculty in 1995.

Mark W Russo received his medical degree from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York and completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at the University of North Carolina Hospitals. He completed a 3 year fellowship in gastroenterology and an additional year of fellowship training at the University of North Carolina. He earned a masters in public health at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health with expertise in epidemiology and clinical research.

Vincent Wong holds the position of professor of medicine and serves as the Head (Academic) of the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research primarily revolves around steatotic liver disease and liver fibrosis, with a particular focus on the development and application of non-invasive tests for screening, diagnosis and prognostication.

Professor of Medicine and Consultant in Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Liver Transplantation
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science
Rochester MN
USA

Robert S. Brown, Jr., MD, MPH, FAASLD is the Vincent Astor Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. He received his AB from Harvard College, his MD from New York University and an MPH from the University of California, Berkeley. He did his residency at Beth Israel Hospital/Harvard Medical School, and a fellowship in gastroenterology and hepatology at UCSF.

Dr. Scott W. Biggins is Professor of Medicine & UPMC Endowed Chair for Patient Centered Care, Chief of Hepatology, Director of UPMC Liver Care, Medical Director of Liver Transplant and Co-Director of Clinical Research at the University of Pittsburgh Starzl Transplant Institute. Dr. Biggins is a nationally recognized clinician and researcher in the field of Hepatology. He received his undergraduate degree in chemical engineering (bioengineering option) from UCLA and his medical degree from USC.