Jessie Torgersen, MD, MHS, MSCE
Biography
Dr. Jessie Torgersen is an Assistant Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and Epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. She is the Director of the Penn Center for Viral Hepatitis at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center where she provides care focused on acute and chronic liver diseases in people with HIV (PWH) and people without HIV (PWoH). Dr. Torgersen is a member of the national American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases/Infectious Diseases Society Hepatitis C Guidance panel and the international Hepatitis Transformative Science Group in the Advancing Clinical Therapeutics Globally for HIV/AIDS and Other Infection (ACTG). She is a Senior Scholar in the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Pennsylvania and an active investigator within the Penn Center for AIDS Research and the national Veterans Aging Cohort Study. Her research focuses on epidemiology of chronic viral hepatitis, hepatic steatosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in PWH and PWoH. She has expertise in the design and analysis of observational cohorts and in the application of artificial intelligence in clinical databases, using natural language processing and deep learning methodologies to identify liver disease within the Veterans Aging Cohort Study.
