Rena K Fox, MD

Rena K. Fox, MD, FACP is Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and an internationally recognized investigator whose work has advanced the integration of hepatology into primary care. Her research spans viral hepatitis, MASLD/MASH, cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma, with a particular emphasis on implementation science and population health approaches to liver disease. She was the recipient of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) Jan Albrecht Commitment to Clinical Research in Liver Diseases Award and has served on the AASLD Committee on Foundations of Liver Disease. Dr. Fox has contributed to national hepatitis C treatment guidance through the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and helped develop the widely used Hepatitis C Online curriculum. She has conducted studies of HCV epidemiology, liver cancer surveillance, cirrhosis outcomes, and innovative care models to improve liver disease detection and treatment. Her recent work has focused on implementation of FIB-4–based strategies to identify advanced fibrosis in patients with MASLD and on health-system interventions to advance hepatitis C elimination. She created and directs the UCSF Hepatitis C Cure Initiative, is the PI for the MASH in Primary Care research program at UCSF, and chairs the Liver Cancer Task Force of the San Francisco Cancer Initiative. She teaches and mentors internal medicine residents, fellows, and junior faculty, and maintains an active primary care practice.