Maria Isabel I Fiel, MD

Biography

Dr. Fiel is Professor of Pathology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS) in New York City. Dr. Fiel completed her residency at Mount Sinai in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology (AP-CP), followed by a fellowship in Cytology and a second fellowship in Liver and Transplant Pathology. She has board certification in AP, CP and in Cytology. She has been actively involved in, and has held leadership positions, in both national and international liver pathology societies including President of the Hans Popper Hepatopathology Society (HPHS), a companion society of the United States Canadian Academy of Pathology. She served on the executive committee of the HPHS. She is a former Associate Editor for the journal, Hepatology. Within the New York region, she has held various leadership positions and in particular as president of the New York Pathological Society (NYPS) from 2019-2022 and is currently on the Board of Trustees of the NYPS. Dr. Fiel had also served on the Education Committee of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD). The education committee is charged with overseeing different workshops, the post-graduate course, and basic and clinical symposia of the AASLD. She had also been moderator of several liver pathology symposia at the American Transplant Congress. She has been an invited speaker at several international conferences including the European Congress of Pathology and the Asia-Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver. She has been an invited speaker at various countries around the world. Within the United States, she has given many lectures and grand rounds at academic centers and has been an invited speaker at national meetings. Dr. Fiel is active in translational and clinical research and has published more than 250 peer-reviewed papers. Her main research interests include steatotic liver disease, liver transplant complications, drug-induced liver injury, noncirrhotic portal hypertension and primary liver cancer. She is an invited member of the International Liver Study Group "Gnomes" and the Laennec Liver Pathology Society.