Speaker

George N. Ioannou, MD, FAASLD

University of Washington
George N. Ioannou, MD, FAASLD

Biography

George Ioannou, MD, MSc, FAASLD is Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington and Director of Hepatology at the Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, in Seattle, WA. He is a former Chair of the AASLD Practice Guidelines Committee and former Chair of the AASLD Public Health and Healthcare Delivery SIG. He also served the VA National GI and Hepatology Program as former Chair of the HCC Subcommittee of the VA Hepatology Field Advisory Board. He is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Hepatology.His areas of interest include liver cancer screening and risk stratification, clinical epidemiology of chronic liver disease, cirrhosis, and HCC, prediction modeling, target trial emulation and the role of cholesterol in MASLD.