Mack C Mitchell, MD, FAASLD

Dr. Mack C. Mitchell is Vice President for Medical Affairs and the Nancy and Jeremy Halbreich Professor of Gastroenterology at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. He previously served as interim Executive Vice President for the Health System at UT Southwestern, Director of Gastroenterology at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, and Chair of Medicine at Carolinas Medical Center in North Carolina.Dr. Mitchell earned his M.D. and completed his residency in internal medicine and fellowship in hepatology at Johns Hopkins, followed by fellowships in gastroenterology and clinical pharmacology at Vanderbilt University. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases.Dr. Mitchell has served on the Advisory Council and as Chair of the Board of Scientific Councilors of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. He is President of ABMRF, The Foundation for Alcohol Research, and leads the UT Southwestern research team as principal investigator for AlcHepNet, a multicenter NIH-sponsored clinical research study of alcohol-associated hepatitis. He has co-authored publications on alcohol-related liver injury, including the AGA guidelines on alcohol-associated hepatitis and the NIAAA-sponsored recommendations for designing clinical trials in alcohol use and alcohol-associated liver disease.