Dr. Prooksa Ananchuensook is a hepatologist and faculty member at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand. She is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Her research focuses on the epidemiology of metabolic liver diseases and translational multi-omics approaches. Her broader interests include the viral hepatitis, hepatocellular carcinoma, and liver transplantation.

As a Research Professor at the Institute for Liver and Digestive Diseases at Hallym University, South Korea I lead a research program centered on the gut-liver axis, investigating how the gut microbiome drives the progression of chronic liver conditions. My work is dedicated to addressing a critical clinical need in hepatology: the development of non-invasive tools to better diagnose and manage chronic liver diseases.

Gut microbiome and metabolome research on pediatric obesity and MASLD

Paige Hammis, MD, is a PGY3 Internal Medicine resident at the University of Colorado with a strong interest in hepatology and liver transplantation. Her clinical and academic interests include acute liver failure management and the intersection of liver disease and substance use disorder. She is actively involved in hepatology research, including projects examining plasma exchange utilization in acute liver failure, transplant pathways for patients with alcohol-associated liver disease, and eating disorder screening in liver transplant candidates.