Adrian N/ Reuben, MBBS, FRCP, FACG, FAASLD AGAF

Biography

Adrian Reuben BSc, MBBS, FRCP, FACG, FAASLD, AGAF is an Emeritus Professor of Medicine (January 2015) at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), in Charleston SC, where he created in 1993 and directed for 22 years, the Liver Program. He retired from clinical practice in December 2014. and returned to live permanently in London UK in April 2018. In February 2019, he was appointed Honorary Visiting Professor at The Institute of Hepatology King's College London for 3 years, by the late Professor Roger Williams, and in 2022, he was the Sheila Sherlock Hepatology Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
Dr. Reuben is a native of London, UK, where he obtained his Pharmacology (BSc) and Medical (MBBS) degrees at University College London and University College Hospital Medical school, respectively; he completed House Jobs and Registrarship (Residency) in various London teaching hospitals. After Fellowship in Gastroenterology (Guy's Hospital), and completion of a Medical Research Council scholarship in the Liver Study Unit at Yale School of Medicine, he was appointed to the Medical Faculty (1981-1993). He was recruited to MUSC to establish a Liver Service and enhance the fledgling Liver Transplant program.
His continuing research interests and many publications focus on Acute Liver Failure, Drug-Induced Hepatotoxicity, the History of Hepatology, and the reciprocal effects of Climate Change on Hepatology.
He has experience in liver transplantation, portal hypertension, risk of surgery in patients with liver disease, and hepatocellular carcinoma - about the latter he edited two monographs. His 30-year laboratory-based career focused initially on biliary lipid secretion, and then on hepatic fibrogenesis and ultimately hepatic regeneration.
Dr Reuben has published over 170 peer-reviewed articles, editorials, case reports, book chapters, including 45 essays in the successful Landmarks in Hepatology series. He has presented original research at national and international meetings, as well as teaching in postgraduate courses and workshops, and presenting invited lectures in the USA, South America, Asia, UK and Europe. He served on several committees of the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease, including the Ethics Committee (2011/2012), and the Special Interest Group devoted to Hepatotoxicity, which he also chaired (2011/2012 and 2021/2022), respectively.
Despite retirement from clinical practice in December 2014, Adrian Reuben remains very active academically, lecturing, reviewing, authoring and editing, and collaborating in research.
He was Guest Editor (2001-2004) for the 46 essay History of Hepatology series (in the AASLD online journal Clinical Liver Disease), and is AASLD co-representative on the Multi-Society Task Force on Environmental and Practice Sustainability,
Dr. Reuben was the recipient of an AASLD Distinguished Service Award in November 2019, and in 2022 he was the Sheila Sherlock Lecturer in Hepatology at the University of Pennsylvania.