Speaker

Meena B Bansal, MD, FAASLD

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS)
Professor
Meena B Bansal, MD, FAASLD

Biography

Dr. Bansal has been on faculty at Mount Sinai since 2001. In addition to maintaining an NIH funded research program focused on molecular mechanism of liver fibrosis with seminal contributions to our understanding of liver fibrosis in people living with HIV, Dr. Bansal held many different leadership roles at Mount Sinai, including Transplant Hepatology Fellowship Director, Director of Translational Research, Medical Director of Hospital-Based Clinics, Chief Medical Officer of Mount Sinai Care, LLC, Deputy Chief Medical Officer for Mount Sinai Health Partners, and Vice President of Population Health for Quality and Efficiency. In these latter roles, she helped generate increased quality dollars in value-based contracts, created Mount Sinai's first ambulatory pharmacy program and addressed broad population health needs. She has also served as the principal investigator for numerous clinical trials for MASH/NASH. At the international/national levels, she held the position of Secretary for the American Association for the Study of Liver and currently serves as the Director of the newly formed MASLD/MASH (NAFLD/NASH) Center of Excellence at Mount Sinai. In January 2024, Dr. Bansal was named System Chief, Division of Liver Diseases for the Mount Sinai Health System.

Sessions

8:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Nov 07 2025
Washington, D.C.

Postgraduate Course, Parts 1–4: A Lifetime of Liver Health (Ticketed)

Mary Rinella, MD, FAASLD, Presenter
Michael Trauner, Presenter
Raymond T Chung, MD, FAASLD, Presenter
Shira Zelber-Sagi, PhD, Presenter
Arun J Sanyal, MD, FAASLD, Presenter
Ramon Bataller, Presenter
Carla W Brady, MD, MHS, FAASLD, Presenter
Marialena Mouzaki, MD, Presenter
Silvia Vilarinho, MD, PhD, Presenter
Gideon M Hirschfield, MB BChir, PhD, FRCP (Lon), Presenter
Lily Dara, MD, Presenter
Jasmohan S. Bajaj, MD, FAASLD, Presenter
Jennifer C Lai, MD, MBA, Presenter
Fasiha Kanwal, MD, MSHS, AGAF, FAASLD, Presenter
Neehar D. Parikh, MD, MS, FAASLD, Presenter
Sumeet K. Asrani, MD MSc, Presenter
ALD
Hepatitis
Liver Cancer
MASLD
Transplant
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Nov 08 2025
Washington, D.C.

Cardiac and Liver Crosstalk in Fibrosis: Who Is the "Brains" of the Operation?

Leila Gobejishvili, Presenter
Kathleen E Corey, MD, MPH, MMSc, Presenter
David A Brenner, MD, Presenter
Hanieh Hanieh Yaghootkar, Presenter
Basic Science
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Nov 08 2025
Washington, D.C.

Multiomic Approaches to Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease

Jin Chai, Presenter
Stefano Romeo, MD, PhD, Presenter
Silvia Sookoian, MD, PhD, FAASLD, Presenter
Panu K Luukkonen, MD, PhD, Presenter
MASLD
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Nov 10 2025
Washington, D.C.

Clinical Research Workshop: Advancing Research Frameworks in MetALD, Part 1—Key Strategies for Refining Risk and Integrating Biomarkers

Suthat Liangpunsakul, MD, MPH, AGAF, FAASLD, Presenter
Maja Thiele, MD, Presenter
Meena B Bansal, MD, FAASLD, Presenter
Michael R Lucey, MD, FAASLD, Presenter
ALD
Liver Cancer