Dr. Constantine (Dean) Karvellas is a Professor of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Alberta and an Adjunct Professor in the School of Public Health Sciences. He has been an attending intensivist in the E. Garner King General Systems Intensive Care Unit since 2009 and is involved with the Liver Transplant program as a Hepatologist. Dr. Karvellas is the only Canadian co-investigator in the NIH-funded United States Acute Liver Failure study group (US ALFSG).

I am an American, Spanish-trained physician, quadruple board-certified in Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology, Transplant Hepatology and Obesity Medicine. Since I joined the VA in August 2016, I have been pursuing the triple threat: to boost hepatology education of residents and fellows, to have clinical excellence, and to excel in hepatology research. My areas of interests are outcomes research in chronic liver diseases, acute-on-chronic liver diseases and prognostic modeling.

Dr. Jacqueline O'Leary began her pursuit of research as an undergraduate at Stanford investigating drug development, continued at UCSF where she received and MD with thesis for work in cellular and molecular biology. Following her internal medicine residency at UT Southwestern in Dallas, Dr. O'Leary did a GI fellowship and transplant Hepatology fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. Her post-doctoral research there at Harvard focused on immunology. Afterward, she completed a Master's in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health.

I am an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Karsh Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology and the Medical Director of the Liver Cancer Program at Cedars-Sinai Cancer. My research program has been focused on clinical and translational research of liver cancer. I have extensive experience in epidemiology of liver cirrhosis risk stratification, surveillance, cancer early detection, diagnosis, and treatment.

Vincent Wong holds the position of Mok Hing Yiu 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, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Maryam Haider, MD is the Chief fellow of Gastroenterology at the University of Chicago - Endeavor Health. Board certified in internal medicine, she earned her medical degree from Sharif Medical and Dental College in Pakistan and completed her residency at Wayne State University - Sinai Grace Hospital. Before beginning her fellowship, Dr. Haider served as an internal medicine faculty at Wayne State DMC Sinai Grace Hospital.

Valentina Medici MD, FAASLD, is a Professor in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at University of California Davis. Dr. Medici studied at University of Padova and University of California Davis. She conducts industry-funded clinical trials, including gene therapy, on Wilson disease and her basic science research on mouse models of aberrant copper metabolism has been funded by NIH. She is the Director of UC Davis Center of Excellence for Wilson disease.

Dr. Rachel Adams is the Physician Executive Director of the MedStar Palliative Care Service Line, which includes nine inpatient palliative care programs across hospitals in Washington, D.C. and Maryland. The service line also features PATCH, an outpatient telemedicine program, and a novel advance care planning initiative that helps ensure patients' wishes are thoughtfully gathered and documented in the medical record.<br><br>Dr. Adams also serves as an Assistant Professor of Medicine at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital (MGUH), where she works clinically.

Transplant Hepatologist at Northwell Health with a focus on Palliative Care and Care Coordination. I completed my Hospice & Palliative Medicine, Gastroenterology, and Transplant Hepatology training at Mount Sinai Hospital.