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 a Fellow 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 Fellow of the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) and serves on the ACG Training Committee.

Transplant hepatology fellow at Georgetown University

Vinay Jahagirdar, MD, is a gastroenterology fellow at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, with a focused interest in transplant hepatology, portal hypertension, MASLD/MASH, and medical education. He has authored multiple peer-reviewed publications and national abstracts spanning hepatology, outcomes research, quality improvement, and artificial intelligence in gastroenterology. He serves as National Co-Lead of the AASLD Liver Fellow Network, where he helps lead trainee-focused education, mentorship, and scholarly initiatives.

Dr. Daniela Goyes is a Gastroenterology Fellow at Yale University and an incoming Liver Transplant Fellow. Her research and clinical interests center on portal hypertension and autoimmune liver diseases.

Dr. Catherine Lucero is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine and Transplant Hepatologist at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medicine Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation. She is also the fellowship director of the Transplant Hepatology Fellowship. She is a clinician educator whose interests include access to care and health literacy.

Elizabeth Aby is a transplant hepatologist at the University of Minnesota with an interested in outcomes research, financial burden and toxicity, liver cancer and transplant oncology

Alan L. Hutchison is an MD- and PhD- trained transplant hepatologist-scientist and Clinical Instructor of Medicine at the University of Chicago. He obtained his B.S. in Physics from Yale University, followed by an M.D. and Ph.D. in Computational Biology and Biophysics from the University of Chicago. His PhD thesis focused on developing statistical methods for understanding circadian rhythm data.

Professor of Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. Her clinical research interests center around improving access to transplant and improving long term outcomes after liver transplantation.

Wesam Aleyadeh is a Clinical Hepatology Fellow at the National Institutes of Health Liver Diseases Branch (NIDDK). His training includes internal medicine residency at Cleveland Clinic Akron General and a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Toronto Centre for Liver Disease with Dr. Jordan Feld. His research focuses on HCV donor-positive recipient-negative solid organ transplants, porto-sinusoidal vascular disorder and non-cirrhotic portal hypertension, and acute-on-chronic liver failure and medical intensive liver units.

First-year gastroenterology fellow at UCLA with plans to pursue advanced training in hepatology and transplant hepatology. She aspires to build a career as a clinician-researcher, with a focus on health services research aimed at addressing health inequities among patients with decompensated cirrhosis. Her research interests in health services research includes work grounded in amplifying patient perspectives to inform more equitable and patient-centered models of care.