Jordi Gracia-Sancho MSc PhD FAASLD is the Chief of the Liver Research Unit at the Southern Catalonia Biomedical Research Institute (IRBCatSud) – Hospital Joan 23 de Tarragona, Associate Researcher at the Department of Visceral Surgery and Medicine – University of Bern, & Director of the Spanish Research Consortium on Liver & Digestive Diseases (CIBEREHD), National Institute of Health, Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities.
Sarah R. Lieber, MD, MSCR is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases at UT Southwestern Medical Center. She is a clinical outcomes researcher whose work focuses on liver transplantation, transplant survivorship, and patient-centered experiences. Her research integrates epidemiologic and qualitative methods to better understand the long-term needs, challenges, and outcomes of transplant recipients and their caregivers, with the goal of improving quality of life and healthcare delivery across the transplant continuum.
Mardoqueo Martinez, PharmD, PhC, is a GI Pharmacist Clinician at Presbyterian Healthcare Services in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Following post-graduate residency training in ambulatory care, he served as an Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice at Texas A&M University for four years before returning to New Mexico. His clinical practice focuses on viral hepatitis, cirrhosis pharmacotherapy, MASLD/MASH, IBD, h.pylori, AUD.
Akhil Shenoy is an associate professor of psychiatry and director of transplant psychiatry at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. He specializes in the psychiatric clinical care of liver transplant recipients and their donors. His research focus include alcohol use disorder and other addictions in the context of alcohol-associated liver disease and the psychosocial outcomes of transplant.
Professor Michael Heneghan is a Consultant Hepatologist & Professor of Hepatology at King's College Hospital London for over 20 years. His principal interests are in the field of liver transplantation, autoimmune liver disease and pregnancy associated liver disease. He has published more than 250 original articles and papers in peer-reviewed journals. He has served as Secretary of the British Association for the Study of the Liver.