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Michael Betel
Michael Betel is the President and Founder of the Fatty Liver Alliance and a leader in liver disease advocacy for over 30 years. Michael is a passionate advocate for those living with MASLD and MASH and is dedicated to improving the lives of those affected.
He is the Chair for the Global Liver Institute’s Liver Action Network, and in 2024 was awarded, by GLI, the Global Excellence in Advocacy Award. Michael is a member of community advisory boards for the Canadian Association for the Study of the Liver (CASL), Regeneron’s NASH POWER Council, and PPD/Evidera Patient Voice in NASH Patient Advisory Board (PAB).
He participates as a stakeholder at Mosaic, and is a member of the Liver Forum for Collaborative Research, and the Global NASH Council.
William Alazawi
William Alazawi is Professor of Hepatology at Queen Mary University London where he leads an MRC-funded translational liver research group that focuses on mechanisms in Steatotic Liver Disease and understanding the risk factors for progression.
He is the co-lead for the Clinical Academic Training School and Director of Research at the Blizard Institute. He is a Consultant Hepatologist and the interim Clinical Director in Specialist Medicine at The Royal London Hospital, where he also leads the MASLD and One-Stop Diagnostic Liver Services.
Gail Hinkson
Gail Hinkson has been involved with the conduct and oversight of human subject’s research and clinical trials since 1994. Her research experience includes the management and oversight of phase 1-4 clinical research in major therapeutic areas. She has led operational and scientific teams for clinical research sites, site networks, pharmaceutical service providers, and medical device companies.
Gail was the CEO of Pinnacle Clinical Research, a research center specializing in MASH research, in San Antonio, Texas from inception through 2021. Gail is the co-founder and CEO for Summit Clinical Research, an Integrated Research Organization with headquarters in San Antonio, TX.
Morten Karsdal
Panelist biography
Luis Antonio Diaz Piga
Dr. Díaz is a Gastroenterology Specialist and Assistant Professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile School of Medicine. Trained as Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology specialist at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
Dr. Díaz is currently a Researcher at the MASLD Research Center, University of California San Diego (UCSD). He is a Clinical Researcher with interest in translational and clinical research in steatotic liver disease, and liver transplantation.
Achim Kautz
Achim Kautz is CEO of Kautz5 gUG – a non-profit project and consulting company for patient-centred care research and health concepts. He is actively advocating for liver patients since more than 20 years. Over these years he was CEO of the German patient organisation “Deutsche Leberhilfe e.V.” and co-initiator of the European Liver Patients´ Association (ELPA) and the World Hepatitis Alliance (WHA).
He has been part of a number of EU declarations and WHO resolutions mainly in the liver field and serves as a member of the consultancy group in the Ministry of Health in Germany looking after the national elimination strategy for HIV, viral hepatitis and STDs. He is the initiator of many metabolic disease-related health projects and active in NASH population research on national and international level.
He is also co-initiator of the International Liver Cancer Movement (ILCM) with over 60 PAGs and scientific organisations globally. He is also a consultant for scientific associations and senior special advisor for Burson Cohn & Wolfe (BCW).
Andrew Yeoman
Having co-established the Gwent Liver Unit, Dr. Yeoman helped draft the Wales Liver Plan, being clinical lead from 2016-2023. In that time they doubled the alcohol care team workforce and established a national abnormal liver test pathway and a liver registry.
He was a member of the UK Lancet Commission into Liver Disease and is a current member of the UK Liver Alliance. He is also the quality lead for the Royal College of Physicians IQILS accreditation programme and an honorary senior lecturer in the Division of Population Medicine at Cardiff University.
Ken Cusi
Dr. Cusi is a Professor of Medicine at the Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism division at the University of Florida. He trained in Buenos Aires and at Baylor College of Medicine. His early work at the University of San Antonio Health Science Center focused on insulin defects in T2DM and the role of NAFLD/NASH in the disease.
His current research targets mechanisms and treatments for NAFLD/NASH. Dr. Cusi has published over 275 articles and contributed to several current MASLD guidelines. He has received numerous awards, including the 2020 AACE Jack Baskin Endocrine Teaching Award and the 2025 University of Florida Outstanding Researcher Award. He is on the Global Think-tank on Steatotic Liver Disease’s Organising Committee.
Priya Jaisinghani
Dr. Priya Jaisinghani is a board-certified endocrinologist and obesity medicine specialist. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Dr. Jaisinghani received a distinction in service to the community through her work at The Boggs Center at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, where she also completed her internal medicine residency and was inducted into the AOA Honor Society.
She completed her endocrinology training at New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell. She has a focus on minority health, medical education, and media. Recently, she published a book chapter on Viral Infections and Obesity and is currently secretary for Tristate Obesity Society and on the education committee for Obesity Action Coalition. Dr Jaisinghani has been featured on ABC News, NBC News, WSJ, Rolling Stone, NYT and other outlets for her work and was Find a Top Doc Women in Medicine Honoree.
Manolis Tsochatzis
Dr. Emmanuel Tsochatzis is a Professor of Hepatology and Consultant Hepatologist at the UCL Institute for Liver and Digestive Health, Royal Free Hospital in London, and Head of the Centre for Metabolic Liver Disease. His research focuses on MASLD, cirrhosis, portal hypertension, and non-invasive liver fibrosis assessment.
After completing his training and PhD in Greece, he joined the Royal Free Hospital for post-doc research. He has received multiple awards, including the UEG Rising Star prize and EASL Physician Scientist Fellowship. Professor Tsochatzis has published over 260 articles and contributed to WHO guidelines on HBV/HCV diagnosis and treatment.
Jerome Boursier
Panelist biography
Frank Tacke
Prof. Dr. Frank Tacke, MD, PhD, MBHA, is the Chairman of Hepatology & Gastroenterology at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany, one of the largest universities hospitals in Europe. He was educated in Hannover, Germany; Houston (M.D. Anderson Cancer Centre); New York (Mount Sinai Medical Centre); and Aachen, Germany (University Hospital Aachen, Germany).
He is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology, Endocrinology and Diabetology, Critical Care Medicine and Infectious Diseases. He has received several prizes and awards (including the prestigious Emmy-Noether-research group funding by the German Research Foundation).
He has served on the Governing Board of the European Association for the Study of the Liver. He is currently Co-Editor at the Journal of Hepatology. He is the coordinator of the multidisciplinary European guideline on metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (EASL-EASD-EASO).
Silvana Pannain
Silvana Pannain is an Associate Professor of Obesity Medicine and Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism at the University of Chicago, where she serves as the Obesity Medicine Director for the Center for Weight and Metabolic Health.
She has been board-certified in Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism since 2007 and an ABOM diplomate since 2016. Dr. Pannain is an active member of the ABOM Obesity Medicine Certification Committee and the OMA CIT Committee, contributing to obesity medicine certification, recertification, and trainee education.
She is the Vice President and co-founder of the Illinois Obesity Society (IOS), where she co-chairs the annual IOS Obesity CME. Additionally, she is the co-Director of ObesityNext (obesitynext.org), a CME-accredited clinical case discussion series on obesity and cardiometabolic disease.
Paul Brennan
Dr. Paul Brennan is a translationally-focused clinician, with a number of key research themes spanning the early identification of liver disease, namely steatotic liver disease and particularly metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease, including natural history epidemiology and recognition of social and environmental determinants. His other principal focus is understanding the immunological basis of, and use of, novel cellular-based treatments for chronic liver disease.
He is a member of the Global Think-tank on Steatotic Liver Disease’s Scientific Committee, the Lancet Commission for early detection of liver disease in primary care and the Global NASH Council (GNC). He is also a founding member of both a UK-wide hepatology-based trainee network (ToRcH-UK), and a co-applicant on a Scottish-led initiative (SHARP) funded by the National Institute for Health and Research (NIHR) to improve accessibility in liver services.
Luca Valenti
Prof. Luca Valenti is one of the leading international experts in hepatology and metabolic diseases. Graduated in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Milan, he specialized in Internal Medicine, with a focus on hepatic steatosis, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, iron metabolism diseases and genetic liver diseases.
He is currently Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Director of the Biological Resources Center at the Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico in Milan. Author of numerous guidelines and member of prestigious international scientific committees, he is recognized as one of the leading global authorities in the treatment of hepatic steatosis.
Michael Ninburg
Michael Ninburg is Executive Director Emeritus of the Hepatitis Education Project (HEP), a U.S.-based NGO dedicated to supporting hepatitis patients. HEP works with patients, clinicians and policymakers, and provides direct services and advocacy for some of the community’s most underserved and marginalised populations, including prisoners and people who use drugs.
Michael works with global partners on issues related to hepatitis testing, treatment access, and the development of more efficient hepatitis drugs and diagnostics. He has served as consultant or partner to a variety of governmental agencies and multilateral organisations, including the World Health Organization (WHO), the Pan American Health Organization/WHO, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and its agencies, including CDC.
Before joining HEP, Michael worked in the private sector with Apple Computer in the Czech Republic and Amazon.com in Seattle. He studied Philosophy at UCLA and has a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from the University of Washington.
Gema Frühbeck
Prof. Gema Frühbeck (RNutr, MD, PhD) combines everyday work in the clinical setting as Co-Director of the Obesity Area of the Clínica Universidad de Navarra (Pamplona, Spain), with basic research as Head of the Metabolic Research Laboratory of the University of Navarra and Project Leader of the CIBEROBN (Centre of Excellence Network in Obesity and Nutrition of the Spanish Institute of Health).
The efforts of her group are focused on studying the impact of adiposity on the development of comorbidities. Frühbeck’s group has taken the step forward of using body composition measurements routinely in the clinical assessment of patients in order to analyse the relevance of body fat -beyond BMI- in comorbidity development. Prof. Frühbeck has served as Secretary, President-Elect, and President of the European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO). Currently she is Co-Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of EASO.
Helen Jarvis
A Primary Care Physician (GP) with a background in clinical hepatology and a masters in public health, interested in researching how primary care can be improved for people at risk of, and living with chronic liver disease.
She is liver lead for the Primary Care Society of Gastroenterology (PCSG), early detection lead for the UK Liver Alliance (UKLA), and primary care advisor to the British Liver Trust (the largest liver charity in the UK).
Hannes Hagström
Dr. Hannes Hagström studies liver-related epidemiology, with a specific interest in steatotic liver disease. Key questions that his group focuses on include long-term outcomes of steatotic liver disease, and identifying risk factors for disease progression.
He has been instrumental in developing one of the globally largest cohorts of patients with steatotic liver disease. Some current initiatives include the Fatty Liver In Sweden multi-center cohort of longitudinally examined patients, and the screening initiative SCANDIA, where 1000 patients with type 2 diabetes have been screened for presence and severity of fatty liver disease.
He is co-director for the Center for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics (CBB) at KI South. His awards include the 2016 Bengt Ihre scholarship, the 2018 AASLD Early Career Investigator Award and the 2024 UEG Rising Star Award. He is a member of the Global Think-tank on Steatotic Liver Disease’s Scientific Committee.
Robert Wong
Robert J. Wong, MD, MS, FACG, FAASLD is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine and Staff Physician of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Healthcare System.
He is a clinician-scientist whose work has focused on highlighting and addressing healthcare disparities and inequities among individuals with chronic liver diseases. His work is supported by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, AASLD, ACG, and others.
He has authored over 275 publications and work has been published in high impact journals including, JAMA, Hepatology, Gastroenterology, Journal of Hepatology, and others.
Laura Falvey
Dr. Laura Falvey is the Executive Clinical Director at Reset Health, a digital health company specialising in patient-centred metabolic health solutions. She leads the multidisciplinary clinical obesity service and clinical product advisory at Roczen, with expertise in governance and digital health integration. She has driven key collaborations across public and private sectors, and NIHR-funded research.
A passionate advocate for equitable obesity care, she speaks widely on digital health’s role in healthcare. Laura trained at King’s College London and previously worked across NHS medical, surgical, and primary care settings, bringing frontline experience to digital innovation in weight management.
Paula Petrone
Dr. Paula Petrone leads the Digital Health Unit at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, where she develops algorithms for early disease diagnosis, risk assessment, and treatment using data from wearables, imaging, and health records. She holds a Ph.D. in Biophysics from Stanford and has worked at Novartis and Roche applying machine learning to drug discovery.
With expertise at the intersection of biology, chemistry, and medicine, she collaborates with biotech and medtech companies to deliver AI-based, explainable, and trustworthy solutions to patients. A WiDS Ambassador (2021–2024), she promotes diversity in STEM and is a published scientist, mentor, speaker, and mother of two.
John Dillon
John is a clinician and researcher. He is a past Vice-President for Hepatology of the British Society of Gastroenterology and past President of the Scottish Society of Gastroenterology. He graduated from St Georges Hospital Medical School, University of London, and gained his MD based on research performed in the University of Edinburgh while a lecturer in Gastroenterology and Hepatology.
His award-winning research include new pathways of care for patients with abnormal LFTs and for people infected with HCV, as well as novel diagnostics and treatments for MASLD. His work on early detection of Liver disease led to the invention of “iLFT”. He is currently a Principle Investigator at the School of Medicine, University of Dundee, and Consultant Hepatologist at NHS Tayside.
Kristina Curtis
Dr. Kristina Curtis is a pioneer in translating behaviour change science into practice with over a decade of experience in developing health behaviour change interventions for a range of preventative health behaviours including weight management, physical activity, health service uptake and self-management of chronic conditions as well as medication adherence.
Kristina also works with a range of organisations from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the foreign office (FCDO) in building expertise and capacity for applying behaviour change science to working practices. Kristina is founder of a behavioural science consultancy, Applied Behaviour Change specialising in helping organisations apply behavioural science tools in a systematic, rigorous and yet practical way through training, research and consultancy.
Kristina is an Honorary Lecturer and Associate for UCL’s Centre for Behaviour Change where she delivers regular teaching and PhD supervision.
Ajay Duseja
Prof. Ajay Duseja, MD, DM, FAASLD, FACG, FAMS, FINASL is presently working as Professor and Head in the department of Hepatology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India.
He is currently the Secretary General of the Indian National Association for Study of the Liver (INASL). He is the National Convener of the Task Force on Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD) and the Principal Investigator of the Indian Consortium on MASLD (ICOM-D)– an on-going real-life study on MASLD in India involving 45 centres.
He has more than 400 publications and is recipient of several awards and honours. He is a member of the Global Think-tank on Steatotic Liver Disease’s Scientific Committee.
Xavier Cos
Dr. Francesc Xavier Cos is a general practitioner and Director of Sant Martí Primary Health Centres in Barcelona, Spain.
His primary interests are research and education in Primary Care, particularly in Diabetes. He is a member of the Primary Care University Research Institute Jordi Gol, focusing on Diabetes prevention and epidemiological database analysis. He has contributed to national and international projects, including diabetes treatment guidelines and expert patient programs.
An Associate Professor at Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, he is also an Associate Editor for Primary Care Diabetes. Dr. Cos served as Chairman of Primary Care Diabetes Europe from 2017 to 2021.
Tit Albreht
Prof. Tit Albreht, M.D., Ph.D. in Health Services Research at the University of Amsterdam, Head of the Centre for Health Care at the National Institute of Public Health of Slovenia, Senior Researcher in the field of health services research, health policy and health systems research, member of the Scientific Committee of EUPHA.
He served as President of the Slovenian Preventive Medicine Society between 2016 and 2022, and he is currently President of the European Public Health Association for the term 2024-2026. His research and policy work has predominantly been on national and EU health system policies and health services research in health workforce, patient mobility, cancer control and cancer care.
He is assistant professor of public health at both Slovenian medical faculties as well as at the Faculties of Health Sciences in Maribor and Jesenice.
A.G. (Onno) Holleboom
Dr. A.G. (Onno) Holleboom is associate professor and internist in Vascular Medicine and Endocrinology at Amsterdam UMC, The Netherlands. He heads the MASH clinic together with hepatology.
Supported by the Dutch gastroenterology/hepatology foundation, his team optimizes SLD care paths. He is ExBo member and WP leader in the IHI GRIP on MASH consortium, co-authored the Dutch MASLD guideline, was a Delphi panel member for the EASL-EASD-EASO MASLD guideline and is on the Global MASH Council.
He (co-)leads clinical trials and runs a group with 5 MD-PhD candidates focusing on gut microbial therapeutic approaches and on pathways involving the sinusoidal endothelium.
Veronica Miller
Veronica Miller, PhD, Adjunct Professor at Berkeley Public Health, directs the Forum for Collaborative Research and its Data & Analysis Center. The Forum applies innovative translational medicine approaches to complex high-prevalence and rare diseases (steatotic/cholestatic liver diseases, viral infections, ocular diseases) requiring multi-modal approaches to generate solutions. This involves multidisciplinary teams in Public Health, Medicine, Biology, Statistics, Computer Science, Data/Regulatory Science from academia, industry, governments and communities. She has over 145 peer reviewed publications and is committed to passing on Forum principles and learning to the next generation through internships, graduate courses, and talks around the world.
Nikos Dedes
Nikos Dedes is chair of the Greek Patients’ Association and chair of Positive Voice, the Greek Association of People Living with HIV.
He is currently a member of the Steering Committee of NEAT id (European Treatment Network of HIV, Hepatitis and Global Infectious Diseases), member of the HIV Treatment Guidelines Panel of EACS (European AIDS Clinical Society) and member of the Steering Committees of the HIV Outcomes and EuroTEST initiatives.
He is a member of the Global Think-tank on Steatotic Liver Disease Scientific Committee.
Veronica Miller
Veronica Miller, PhD, Adjunct Professor at Berkeley Public Health, directs the Forum for Collaborative Research and its Data & Analysis Center.
The Forum applies innovative translational medicine approaches to complex high-prevalence and rare diseases (steatotic/cholestatic liver diseases, viral infections, ocular diseases) requiring multi-modal approaches to generate solutions. This involves multidisciplinary teams in Public Health, Medicine, Biology, Statistics, Computer Science, Data/Regulatory Science from academia, industry, governments and communities.
She has over 145 peer reviewed publications and is committed to passing on Forum principles and learning to the next generation through internships, graduate courses, and talks around the world.
Naim Alkouri
Naim Alkhouri, MD, is the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) and Director of the Steatotic Liver Program at Arizona Liver Health (ALH) in Phoenix, AZ.
Dr. Alkhouri is a leader in the field of MASH therapeutics and an advisor/consultant to many pharmaceutical and biomarker development companies. He is Principal Investigator on several multicenter global MASH trials and a member of the AASLD MASH Special Interest Group (MASH SIG).
Dr. Alkhouri’s over 260 publications include articles in the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, JAMA, Nature Medicine, Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and the Journal of Hepatology. He presents his work at both national and international medical conferences.
He is a co-director of the Global Think-tank on Steatotic Liver Disease.
Didac Mauricio
Dr. Didac Mauricio, MD, PhD, is Director of Endocrinology & Nutrition at Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, and a Professor at UVic/UCC.
He is currently the scientific Director of CIBER of Diabetes and Associated Metabolic Diseases, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, in Spain. With over 350 peer-reviewed publications and book contributions, Dr. Mauricio has received top awards from the Spanish Society of Diabetes and the Spanish Society of Endocrinology & Nutrition.
He has served on various local and international committees and led numerous research projects funded by national and international agencies, focusing on diabetes management and complications.
He is the local chair for the Global Think-tank on Steatotic Liver Disease.
Jordi Serrano Pons
Dr. Jordi Serrano Pons, a specialist in Family Medicine, founded UniversalDoctor, a Global Digital Health company, and UhDa Health, focused on Prevention. He has recently founded P8Health.
His companies collaborate extensively with numerous governments and international organizations on innovative projects related to Global Health and Planetary Health.
From 2013 to 2019, Dr. Jordi worked as a health and innovation consultant for the WHO. During this period, he led the implementation of several projects and contributed to the WHO Innovation Group.
His academic background includes a Degree in Medicine specialising in Family Medicine, a Master’s in Health and Environment, and a Postgraduate degree in International Studies.
Jörn Schattenburg
Dr. Jörn Schattenberg is a Professor of Medicine and Director of the Department of Medicine II at the University Medical Center Homburg and University of Saarland, Germany.
He received his medical degree in 2002 from the University of Mainz and Tulane University. His postdoctoral training at Albert-Einstein College of Medicine focused on liver injury, particularly metabolic liver disease and MASH.
Board-certified in internal medicine, gastroenterology, and hepatology, his research focuses on translational science, clinical trials, and new technologies for metabolic liver disease prevention.
He is a member of EASL’s Policy, Public Health, and Advocacy Committee, Associate Editor for JHEP Reports and co-director of the Global Think-tank on Steatotic Liver Disease’s Scientific Committee.
Maru Rinella
Dr. Rinella is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago and Director of the Metabolic Liver Program. Her current research focuses on MASLD/MASH, particularly its links to metabolic co-morbidities and recurrence after liver transplantation.
Dr. Rinella is actively involved in the AASLD, where she has held various leadership positions and chaired the 2023 AASLD NAFLD Practice Guidance. She has held leadership roles in MASLD research and co-led the global initiative to redefine NAFLD terminology to what is now known as MASLD.
She is on the Global Think-tank on Steatotic Liver Disease Organising Committee.
Paul Brennan
Dr. Paul Brennan is a translationally-focused clinician, with a number of key research themes spanning the early identification of liver disease, namely steatotic liver disease and particularly metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease, including natural history epidemiology and recognition of social and environmental determinants.
His other principal focus is understanding the immunological basis of, and use of, novel cellular-based treatments for chronic liver disease. He is a member of the Global Think-tank on Steatotic Liver Disease’s Scientific Committee, the Lancet Commission for early detection of liver disease in primary care and the Global NASH Council (GNC).
He is also a founding member of both a UK-wide hepatology-based trainee network (ToRcH-UK), and a co-applicant on a Scottish-led initiative (SHARP) funded by the National Institute for Health and Research (NIHR) to improve accessibility in liver services.
Holly Lofton
Dr. Holly F. Lofton is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine and Surgery at NYU Langone Health, where she has served as director of the Medical Weight Management Program since 2012. Here, she designed the popular New You program to help her patients obtain results while fostering nutrition education and placing emphasis on a healthy lifestyle.
She is currently involved in clinical research pertaining to the pharmacotherapy to treat weight recurrence after bariatric surgery as well as clinical drug trials.
Dr. Lofton educates students, the general public and other physicians about diagnosing and treating obesity.
She has served on the board of the Obesity Action Coalition, the Bariatric Medicine committee for the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, and the Obesity Medicine Fellowship Council.
Scott Isaacs
Dr. Scott Isaacs is a board-certified endocrinologist in Atlanta, specialising in obesity medicine, steatotic liver disease, cardiometabolic disease, dyslipidemia, diabetes, and general endocrinology.
He attended Emory University for medical school, residency, and fellowship and serves as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Emory. A diplomate of the American Board of Obesity Medicine and the American College of Physicians, Dr. Isaacs is past president of the Georgia Chapter of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE), current president of AACE and a member of the Global Think-tank on Steatotic Liver Disease’s Scientific Committee.
He has given over 500 lectures, published research, authored several best-selling books and appeared in major media outlets such as the New York Times and CBS News, Link to social media.
Maja Thiele
Dr. Maja Thiele is a Professor of Hepatology at Odense University Hospital and the University of Southern Denmark.
Her research focuses on improved management of patients across the spectrum of steatotic liver disease, particularly alcohol-related liver disease and metabolic and alcohol-associated liver disease, through biomarkers for early detection, omics technologies and cost-effective referral pathways. She has contributed to multiple clinical guidelines, including EASL, AASLD, and the BAVENO VII consensus.
She is a partner in several European research consortia, including LiverAIM, GALAXY, LiverScreen, MicrobPredict, and SALVE.
Shira Zelber-Sagi
Prof. Zelber-Sagi is a clinical dietitian, epidemiologist, and researcher in nutritional epidemiology. She holds a BSc in nutrition sciences from the Hebrew University and a PhD in epidemiology from Tel Aviv University.
Currently, she is a Professor and Head of the School of Public Health at the University of Haifa and works as a clinical dietitian at the liver unit of Tel-Aviv Hospital.
She is a member of the National Committee for Nutrition, Gastroenterology, and Liver Disease and heads the Gastroenterology and Hepatology Nutrition Forum for the Israeli Nutrition Association.
She is the EASL Public Health councillor and a member of the Global Think-tank on Steatotic Liver Disease Organising Committee.
Meena Bansal
Dr. Bansal has been on faculty at Mount Sinai since 2001, leading an NIH funded research program on molecular mechanisms of liver fibrosis in people living with HIV. She has also served as the principal investigator for several MASH clinical trials.
She held the position of Secretary for the American Association for the Study of Liver and is currently Director of the newly formed MASLD/MASH (NAFLD/NASH) Center of Excellence at Mount Sinai. In January 2024, Dr. Bansal was named System Chief, Division of Liver Diseases for the Mount Sinai Health System.
She is a member of the Global Think-tank on Steatotic Liver Disease’s Scientific Committee.
Francesco Branca
Francesco Branca, MD, PhD, is an invited professor in the Institute of Global Health of Geneva University. He has been the Director of the Department of Nutrition and Food Safety at the WHO.
Previously, he has been a Scientist at the Italian Food and Nutrition Research Institute, a Lecturer at the University of Rome La Sapienza and Tor Vergata, and Adjunct Professor in the Friedman School of Nutrition Science, Tufts University.
Francesco graduated in Medicine and Surgery and specialized in Diabetology and Metabolic Diseases at the Universita’ Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy.
Jeffrey V Lazarus
Jeffrey V. Lazarus, PhD, MIH, MA, is a Professor of Global Health at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Policy and a research professor at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal).
He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in NYC. With extensive experience at WHO Europe and the Global Fund, Prof. Lazarus chairs Healthy Livers, Healthy Lives (an AASLD, ALEH, APASL, EASL and SOLDA coalition) and leads MASH Cities.
He has authored over 450 publications, led key public health consensus statements, and received multiple prestigious awards, including the 2023 American Liver Foundation Distinguished Scientific Achievement award.
He is the director of the Global Think-tank on Steatotic Liver Disease.
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(before 1 April) |
On-site |
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Private Sector/Industry | 495 | 695 |
Start-up* | 150 | 200 |
Healthcare Professional, Academic, Public Health/Professional Association, NGO | 100 | 150 |
Young Researcher / Trainee / PostDoc / Student / Young Person (under 25) * | 50 | 50 |
Patient or Patient Representative * | 50 | 50 |
* Registration fee scholarship offered on application, please email: lisa.rice@isglobal.org
Pre-conference (by invitation only)
Main Sessions (Beginning at 2PM)
Networking Reception (6-7:15PM)
Main Sessions (Beginning at 9:30AM)
Roundtables
Closing Remarks (4:45-5PM)
The Clinical Care Pathway Assessment (CARPA) project aims to assess the implementation of a novel clinical pathway in selected primary care settings and corresponding tertiary/specialist (hepatology) centres across Spain, to increase the rates of detection and treatment of metabolic dysfunction–associated steatotic liver disease and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis.