Kris V Kowdley, MD, FACP, FACG, AGAF, FAASLD

Dr. Kris Kowdley is Director of Liver Institute Northwest and professor, Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine at Washington State University and Senior Scientific Advisor and Medical Director at Velocity Clinical Research. He received his B.S. in Biology and Anthropology as a member of the Dean's List at Columbia University, and his medical degree from Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He completed his internship and residency at Oregon Health Science University and a Fellowship in Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Tufts University School of Medicine.Dr. Kowdley is internationally recognized as a clinician, educator, and researcher in liver disease. He has led several major international clinical trials of new treatments for hepatitis C, primary biliary cholangitis, primary sclerosing cholangitis and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis. Dr. Kowdley's translational and laboratory research focuses on the role of iron as a co-factor in nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, novel murine models, and biomarkers for nonalcoholic steatohepatitis and primary sclerosing cholangitis. His research program has been continually funded by the National Institutes of Health since 1999. Dr. Kowdley has authored more than 1,000 articles, book chapters, reviews, and abstracts; his work has been cited more than 87,000 times (h-index 133), according to Google Scholar. He is on the Web of Science list of "Highly Cited Researchers" (top 1% by citations for field) for 2020 through 2024.