Dr. David E. Kaplan is an Professor of Medicine and Director of Hepatology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Kaplan has served as Director of Hepatology at the Corporal Michael J. Crescenz Veterans Administration Medical Center where he has organized a regional hepatocellular carcinoma tumor board since 2014 with innovations recognized by the VA Diffusion of Excellence program. He has held multiple committee leadership roles in the AASLD including being the current Chairperson of the Liver Cancer SIG. He is an active clinician and mentor.

Allison Kwong, MD, is a hepatologist who specializes in the care of patients with chronic liver disease. Her research in alcohol-associated liver disease has been supported by the AASLD Foundation Clinical, Translational, and Outcomes Research Award and a NIAAA K23 Mentored Career Development Award. Her clinical and research interests include cirrhosis, portal hypertension, and outcomes before and after liver transplantation.

Dr. Cotter is a transplant and general hepatologist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, having joined on faculty in 2021. He has a strong clinical interest in all aspects of liver diseases and liver transplantation, with a particular focus on alcohol-associated liver disease(ALD). In tandem with his clinical practice, Dr. Cotter has developed a strong clinical research aimed at improving outcomes of patients with ALD. He was a AASLD CTORA recipient through this year and has active NIH (NIAAA - K23AA031310) funding through his K award.

Kristine Drozd, MSN, NP-C, APRN<br>Senior Nurse Practitioner II<br>Yale-New Haven Health<br>Yale Medicine Section of Digestive Health<br>Hepatology <br><br>Short bio: Kristine Drozd has been a liver Nurse Practitioner at Yale New Haven Health/Yale Medicine for 13 years. She works in outpatient non-transplant hepatology clinic with special focus in viral hepatitis, non-invasive liver fibrosis assessment, and medical weight management for MASLD.

Robin is a Family Nurse Practitioner with over 24 years of clinical experience. She received her MSN from The Johns Hopkins School of Nursing where she was a National Health Service Corps Scholar and a Peace Corps Fellow.

William Bernal is Professor of Liver Critical Care Medicine in the Liver Intensive Therapy Unit at the Institute of Liver Studies at Kings College Hospital in London UK. He is part of a small consultant team running a 19 bedded specialist intensive care unit devoted to the care of critically-ill patients with severe liver and pancreatic disease, which serves one of the largest liver transplantation programs in Europe

<br>Professor Deirdre Kelly is Professor of Paediatric Hepatology at the University of Birmingham and Founding Director of the Liver Unit for Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. She is a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin.<br>She set up the Paediatric Liver Unit at Birmingham Children's Hospital in 1989 which provides a national and international service for children with liver failure and undergoing liver transplantation, transforming survival and outcome for these children.

Grace L. Guo, MBBS, PhD, FAASLD, is a professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy in the Rutgers University. She received a MBBS degree from the West China University of Medical Science (Now the West China Medical Center of Sichuan University), and a PhD degree in Toxicology from the University of Kansa Medical Center. Her postdoctoral training was obtained from the NCI, NIH, with Dr. Frank Gonzalez. Dr. Guo has been a faculty in the University of Kansas Medical Center from 2004 to 2012 and in Rutgers University since 2012.

Michael Schilsky, MD FAASLD is Professor of Medicine and Surgery at the Yale School of Medicine, Medical Director for Adult Liver Transplant at the Yale New Haven Transplant Center and Director of the Center for Excellence for Wilson disease at Yale. Dr. Schilsky received his medical degree from the University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine before completing his residency, fellowship and pos-doctoral training in GI and liver diseases at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He then became a faculty member at Einstein and was part of their Liver Research Center.

I am a pediatric surgeon trained in transplantationand have directed the liver transplant program at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital since its inception. I have a special interest in disorders of the liver in children including abnormalities of portal circulation, biliary atresia and pediatric liver tumors.