Dr. Benhammou is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles and a staff physician at the Greater Los Angeles VA where she practices clinical transplant hepatology. Her laboratory and research interest at to understand the clinical and molecular pathways that lead to hepatocellular carcinoma in the context of metabolic and steatolic liver diseases.

I am an Assistant Professor at the Organ Pathobiology and Therapeutics Institute (OPTIn) and the Department of Pharmacology and
Chemical Biology at the University of Pittsburgh. I have a broad background in cell and molecular biology with specific expertise in
liver microphysiological systems (MPS).My laboratory focuses on applying human biomimetic liver MPS to model both normal and disease-state physiology and to address clinically relevant questions in MASLD/MASH. My focus is on implementing the coupled use of liver MPS with quantitative systems

Gabriel Mezzano Puentes, MD, is a gastroenterologist and hepatologist in Santiago, Chile. He is Head of the Center for Digestive Diseases at Clínica Universidad de los Andes and a member of the liver transplant team at Hospital del Salvador. He serves on the faculty of the School of Medicine, Universidad de Chile, where he directs the Gastroenterology Specialist Program. His clinical and research interests center on portal hypertension, acute-on-chronic liver failure, and drug-induced liver injury, and he serves as principal investigator on clinical trials in liver disease.

Dr. Joanna Dionne is an clinician-scientist and Associate Professor, Divisions of Gastroenterology and Critical Care Medicine, in the Departments of Medicine and Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact at McMaster University, and associate member of the Farncombe Institute. Dr. Dionne received her MD, MSc and PhD in Health Research Methodology (HRM) as well as postgraduate training in Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology, Critical Care Medicine, and Clinician Investigator Program (CIP) at McMaster University. She has received peer-reviewed funding from PSI, CAG and CIHR. Dr.

Alberto Farias. M.D. FAASLD. Full Professor of Gastroenterology and Hepatology and Director of the Division of Gastroenterology. University of Sao Paulo School of Medicine. Brazil

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Dr. Mack C. Mitchell is Vice President for Medical Affairs and the Nancy and Jeremy Halbreich Professor of Gastroenterology at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. He previously served as interim Executive Vice President for the Health System at UT Southwestern, Director of Gastroenterology at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, and Chair of Medicine at Carolinas Medical Center in North Carolina.