Michael L Schilsky, MD, FAASLD

Biography

Michael Schilsky, MD FAASLD is Professor of Medicine and Surgery at the Yale School of Medicine, Medical Director for Adult Liver Transplant at the Yale New Haven Transplant Center and Director of the Center for Excellence for Wilson disease at Yale. Dr. Schilsky received his medical degree from the University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine before completing his residency, fellowship and pos-doctoral training in GI and liver diseases at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He then became a faculty member at Einstein and was part of their Liver Research Center. He next worked at The Mount Sinai Hospital as part of the transplant hepatology team and served as director of the liver medicine clinic at the Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute. He then became the medical director for liver transplantation at the New York Weill Cornell Medical Center before moving on to Yale in 2007. Dr. Schilsky coauthored the AASLD practice guidelines and the updated Guidance on Wilson disease and is author on many publications related to Wilson disease. He is the Principal Investigator for the Yale based multinational multicenter Wilson disease registry study and of an NIH sponsored study focusing on biomarkers for Wilson disease. His clinical interests include transplant hepatology, acute liver failure and, inherited metabolic disorders of the liver, Wilson disease and hemochromatosis.