Dr. Arab is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition of Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine. He serves as the Inaugural Director of Alcohol Sciences at the Stravitz-Sanyal Institute for Liver Disease and Metabolic Health. Dr. Arab trained as Gastroenterologist and Transplant Hepatologist specialist at the Catholic University of Chile and at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN. Dr. Arab's research in alcohol-associated liver disease (ALD) has truly refined the clinical hepatology practice and our understanding of this common disease. Additionally, he is leading international collaborations aiming to study ALD and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) through multiple consortia. Dr. Arab is an Associate Editor for Hepatology (flagship AASLD journal). He is currently the Chair of the Special Interest Group on ALD of the AASLD. He has published more than 250 peer-reviewed papers, co-authored several book chapters and authored multiple clinical practice guidelines on ALD, MASLD and hepatorenal syndrome.