Dr. Sadhna Dhingra is Professor of Pathology at the Houston Methodist Academic Institute and Weill Cornell Medical College, and Associate Director of Surgical Pathology at Houston Methodist Hospital. She is also launching a new ACGME-accredited fellowship in Liver Pathology at Houston Methodist, reflecting her commitment to advanced training in hepatopathology.
Mikhail Alper, MD, PA-C
Randeep is a transplant-trained hepatologist at Virginia Mason Franciscan Health in Seattle, Washington. She specializes in chronic liver disease and is actively involved in medical education, quality improvement, and leadership initiatives within hepatology. Her professional interests include advancing liver care and mentorship.
Monika Sarkar is a Professor of Hepatology/Liver Transplant at UCSF where she runs the UCSF Women's Liver Program and multidisciplinary liver disease in pregnancy clinic. Her clinical and NIH-funded research program is focused on reproductive health in liver disease, with particular interest in MASLD and autoimmune liver disease, She is former chair of the AASLD Women's Committee, and current chair of the AST Women's Health Community of Practice. She currently serves on the AASLD Nominations Committee.
Assistant-Professor at Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the University of São Paulo School of Medicine - HCFMUSP, with a PhD in Pathology at HCFMUSP and a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF. He coordinates the Medical Residency in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology and is a Professor of Postgraduate Studies in Gastroenterology at USP.
Gastroenterologist, graduated from the National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition "Salvador Zubirán"
Clinical Hepatology at the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona
Area of expertise: Complications of cirrhosis and ACLF
Won Kim, MD, PhD, is Professor of Internal Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Seoul National University College of Medicine and Seoul Metropolitan Government Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center, Korea. He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of Clinical and Molecular Hepatology (2025 JCR Impact Factor: 21.7).
Dr. Justin Boike is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and is a practicing Hepatologist and Transplant Hepatologist. He cares for patients with a wide range of liver diseases including cirrhosis and liver transplant. His clinical and research interest is in the management of complex portal hypertension issues such as chronic portal vein thrombosis (PVT), non-invasive assessment of portal hypertension, non-cirrhotic portal hypertension and the utilization and outcomes of TIPS.
Dr. Jennifer Haglund is an Associate Professor of Medicine and a practicing Transplant Hepatologist at the University of Minnesota. She leads her division as the Co-Section Lead of Hepatology, and is the Associate Program Director of the GI Fellowship. Dr. Haglund additionally serves the Medical School as the Co-course Director for GI/Hepatology for all campuses of the University of Minnesota, and as a Clinical Skills Facilitator for the first- and second-year medical students in the Twin Cities.
Since 2022 Full University Professor of Medicine and Chair of Gastroenterology and
Hepatology in University of Münster
Since 2024 Deputy Director of European Foundation for Chronic Liver failure, Barcelona,
Spain
2018-2022 University Professor for Translational Hepatology in Department of Internal
Medicine I, Goethe University Clinic Frankfurt
Since 2017 Principal Investigator of the PREDICT study and Professor in European
Foundation for Chronic Liver failure, Barcelona, Spain