The American Liver Foundation partners with medical professionals all across the country who act in various medical advisory capacities at a national level and at local division levels. For more information about serving in an advisory capacity, please contact us by email or by phone at 212-668-1000 and ask for the National Director of Programs at ALF.

The following represent ALF’s current national medical advisors.

Last updated on September 15th, 2023 at 10:29 am

Ghassan Abou-Alfa, MD

Medical Oncologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York

Talal Adhami, MD, HCMBA, AGAF

Cleveland Clinic, Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition
Ohio

Jasmohan Bajaj, MD, MS, FACG, AGAF

Associate Professor of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University & McGuire VA Medical Center
Virginia

Terry Box, MD

University of Utah School of Medicine
Utah

Robert S. Brown, Jr., MD, MPH, FAASLD

Weill Cornell School of Medicine
New York

Douglas Dieterich, MD

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York

Udeme D. Ekong, MD, MPH, FAASLD

Associate Professor, Pediatric Transplant Hepatology
Medstar Georgetown University Hospital
Pennsylvania

Scott A. Fink, MD, MPH, FACP

Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Lankenau Hospital
Pennsylvania

Catherine Frenette, MD, FAST, AGAF

Scripps Green Hospital
California

John Goff, MD

Rocky Mountain Gastroenterology
Colorado

Uma Devi Goyal, MD

Radiation Oncologist, University of Arizona College of Medicine
Arizona

Jennifer Guy, MD

Transplant Hepatologist, Gastroenterologist, Sutter Health, California Pacific Medical Center
California

Mary Ann Huang, MD

Gastroenterology, Transplant Hepatology, Centura Health Physician Group
Colorado

Blaine Hollinger, MD

Hepatologist, Baylor College of Medicine
Texas

Alisha Mavis, MD

Levine Children’s Hospital, Atrium Health
North Carolina

Nadia Ovchinsky, MD

Director, Pediatric Hepatology; Medical Director, Pediatric Liver Transplantation, The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore
New York

Daniel Pratt, MD

Massachusetts General Hospital
Massachusetts

Kamran Qureshi, MD

Gastroenterology, Internal Medicine, Obesity Medicine, Saint Louis University
Missouri

Nancy Reau, MD

Medical Oncologist, Rush University Medical Center
Illinois

Sammy Saab, MD, MPH, AGAF

Medical Director, Pfleger Liver Institute, Medical Director, Adult Liver Transplant Program, Chief, Transplant Hepatology, Head, Outcomes Research in Hepatology, Professor of Medicine and Surgery, Adjunct Professor of Nursing, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
California

Adnan Said, MD

Wisconsin School of Medicine
Wisconsin

Arun J. Sanyal, MD

Medical Oncologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York

Rohit Satoskar, MD

Medical Director of Liver Transplantation, Georgetown University Hospital
District of Columbia

Gabriel Schnickel, MD, MPH, FACS

Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgeon, Surgical Director, Liver Transplantation, Associate Professor of Surgery, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine
California

Coleman Smith, MD

Hepatologist, MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute
Professor of Medicine, Georgetown University School of Medicine
District of Columbia

Tamar Taddei, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine
Connecticut

Hillel Tobias, MD, PhD, FACP

Gastroenterologist, NYU Langone Medical Center
New York

John Vierling, MD, FACP, FAASLD

Professor of Medicine, Professor of Surgery, Chief of Hepatology, Director of Advanced Liver Therapies, Baylor College of Medicine
Texas

Rocky Yapp, MD, MPH, AGAF

Gastroenterologist, Digestive Health Services
Illinois

Xaralambos “Bobby” Zervos, DO

Cleveland Clinic
Florida

National Medical Advisors