Frank Tacke, MD, PhD

Prof. Dr. Frank Tacke, MD, PhD, MBHA, is the Director of Hepatology & Gastroenterology at the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, one of the largest universities hospitals in Europe. He was educated in Hannover, Germany; Houston (M.D. Anderson Cancer Centre); New York (Mount Sinai Medical Centre); and Aachen, Germany (University Hospital Aachen, Germany). He is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology, Endocrinology and Diabetology, Critical Care Medicine, Transplantation Medicine and Infectious Diseases. He has received several prizes and awards (including the prestigious Emmy-Noether-research group funding by the German Research Foundation). Prof. Tacke has been recognised as Highly Cited Researcher by Web of Science for six consecutive years: 2020-2025 ("Cross-field", "Clinical Medicine"). He has served on the Governing Board of the European Association for the Study of the Liver (Board member 2014-2017, Vice Secretary General 2017-2018). He is currently Co-Editor at the Journal of Hepatology (Impact-Factor 33). He is the coordinator of the multidisciplinary European guideline on metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (EASL-EASD-EASO). He is spokesperson of the DFG-funding research consortium on MASLD (CRC/TR 412).