Dr. Fierer received his medical degree from Yale University and his Infectious Diseases training at the National Institutes of Health. In 2006, he and his team at Mount Sinai uncovered the epidemic of HCV infection among men who have sex with men with HIV in New York City.

David A. Brenner, M.D. Professor and President and CEO<br>Research. My research program's general approach is to start with mouse models of chronic liver injury that reflect the different type of human diseases; common bile duct ligation (cholestatic liver disease), carbon tetrachloride administration (toxicant liver injury, (TASH)), intragastric alcohol feeding (alcoholic liver disease, (ASH)), and diet induced obesity, choline deficient amino acid supplemented diet, and Foz/Foz mice or mup-UPA with high fat diet (non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH)).

Dr. Kathleen Corey is the Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Non-Alcoholic Steatotic Liver Disease Program and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS).<br>She is a hepatologist who specializes in MASLD and a Physician Investigator in the Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit at MGH.

Leila Gobejishvili is Associate Professor in the Department of Physiology at the University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky. She received her PhD in Biology from the Institute of Physiology, Georgian Academy of Sciences, Tbilisi, Georgia in 1995. In 2001 she joined Dr. Craig McClain's liver research group. Her first project examined the mechanisms of alcohol mediated "priming" of monocytes/macrophages to produce higher levels of inflammatory cytokines in response to endotoxin.

Brian Kim, MD is a transplant hepatologist specializing in the treatment of patients with acute and chronic liver disease, cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma. Dr. Kim is board certified in internal medicine, gastroenterology, and transplant hepatology. He is an active member of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) where he serves as a member of the AASLD Maintenance of Certification Committee. He is also a member of the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) and serves on the ACG Training Committee.

Dr. Ramesh Batra is a Tenured Professor of Surgery at the University of Arizona, where he serves as Division Chief and Director of Abdominal Transplantation at the Banner University Medical Center. A devoted surgeon and thought leader, he is advancing the future of transplantation by integrating artificial intelligence and deep machine learning with the art and science of surgery.<br>Equally dedicated to the human side of medicine, Dr.

Arpit Amin, MD is an Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Division of Abdominal Transplant and Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and University Hospital in Newark, NJ.

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Dr. Ryutaro Hirose was recently appointed Chief of the Division of Transplant Surgery and Co - Director of the UW Medicine Transplant Institute, starting his position on November 1, 2023. Dr. Hirose is a senior and well-known transplant surgeon who had previously worked at UCSF. He has extensive experience in UNOS, within the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS) , and he currently serves as the Surgical Director of the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR). As a leader in transplantation, Dr.