Leandro Sierra

Leandro Sierra, MD, is an internal medicine resident at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. He is one of three residents chosen for the program's Clinician Educator Track, and he received the AASLD Emerging Liver Scholar award. He plans a career in transplant hepatology, with a focus on cholestatic liver disease .Leandro completed a postdoctoral clinical research fellowship at the Liver Research Center at BIDMC under Dr. Alan Bonder. There he worked on PBC registry studies, hepatocellular carcinoma outcomes, liver transplantation and health disparities. He also held a teaching appointment in the Anatomy curriculum at Harvard Medical School.Dr. Sierra contributes to the Hepatology Highlights section of ACG Evidence-Based GI, hosts its podcast, and manages social media for the AST Liver and Intestinal Community of Practice. He is bilingual in English and Spanish and is committed to improving liver care for Hispanic and Latino patients.