Alan L Hutchison, MD, PhD

Alan L. Hutchison is an MD- and PhD- trained transplant hepatologist-scientist and Clinical Instructor of Medicine at the University of Chicago. He obtained his B.S. in Physics from Yale University, followed by an M.D. and Ph.D. in Computational Biology and Biophysics from the University of Chicago. His PhD thesis focused on developing statistical methods for understanding circadian rhythm data. After his doctorates, he stayed at the University of Chicago Medicine for his internal medicine, gastroenterology, and transplant hepatology fellowships as part of the Physician-Scientist Development Program.Alan is an active member of the AASLD. He first became involved as an Emerging Liver Scholar (2020) with subsequent travel abstract (2023) and Advanced Fellow (2024) awards, was inaugural Editorial Fellow for the journal Liver Transplantation and inaugural Co-Director of Webinars and Fellowship Programming for the Liver Fellow Network. He previously served as a member of the Editorial Board for Liver Transplantation and committee member for the AASLD Training and Workforce Committee, and is currently a member of the AASLD Practice Guidelines Committee where he is a GRADE junior methodologist. Alan is an active physician-scientist, with 8 first-author publications and contributing to 16 other publications. His primary research focuses on the development of diabetes and hypoglycemia in individuals with cirrhosis and liver transplant recipients. He develops both machine learning approaches to identifying individuals at risk as well as personalized stable-isotope experiments to measure their glucose metabolism. He additionally researches the models of hepatology training, their impact on the hepatology workforce, and the effects of state-level human-rights laws on transplant recipients and trainees.