Speaker Profile

<p>Marco Arrese, MD is Professor of Medicine and Head of the Department of Gastroenterology at Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile School of Medicine in Santiago. Trained in Chile and the U.S. (Yale University), he is an expert in liver diseases and has focused his research activities in both cholestatic and fatty liver diseases. He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers on gastrointestinal and liver diseases in biomedical journals and delivered more than 100 lectures in national and international meetings. He has been president of the Chilean Society of Gastroenterology and has been elected fellow of the American college of physicians (FACP) and the American Association of the study of the liver (FAASLD). He is also a member of the European Association for the study of the liver (EASL) and the Latin-American association of the study of the liver (ALEH) where he coordinates the special interest group of NAFLD. He has served as a member of the editorial board of Journal of Hepatology, Hepatology and Annals of Hepatology as well as has acted as reviewer of multiple liver journals.</p>