Ramon Bataller, MD, PhD

Course Director, 2019 Annual Update in Medical Hepatology

Professor of Medicine

Director of Hepatology

UPMC Center for Liver Diseases

Michael Babich, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine

Director, GI Fellowship Training Program

Temple University School of Medicine

Allegheny Health Network

Jaideep Behari, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Medicine

Director. FLOW Center (Fatty Liver, Obesity, & Wellness Center)

UPMC Center for Liver Diseases

Hui-Wei (Doris) Chen, MD

Hepatology Fellow, Year III

Kapil Chopra, MD, FACP, AGAF, FAASLD

Professor of Medicine

Vice Chair of Medicine, UPMC Mercy

Medical Director, Comprehensive Liver Program, UPMC Liver Pancreas Institute

UPMC Center for Liver Diseases

Andres Duarte-Rojo, MD, PhD, FACP

Associate Professor of Medicine

UPMC Center for Liver Diseases

Michael Dunn, MD, FACP, FAASLD

Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Informatics

Associate Chief for Translational Research

UPMC Center for Liver Diseases

Jordan Feld, MD, MPH

R. Phelan Chair in Translational Liver Research

Toronto Centre for Liver Disease

Toronto General Hospital and University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Swaytha Ganesh, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Director, Living Donor Liver Transplant (LDLT) Program

Shahid Malik, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Program Dir., Advanced Fellowship in Transplant Hepatology

UPMC Center for Liver Diseases

Akshata Moghe, MD, PhD

Chief Gastroenterology & Hepatology Fellow, Year III

Michele Molinari, MD

Associate Professor of Surgery

Thomas E. Starzl Transplant Institute

Department of Surgery

Patrick McKiernan, MD

Professor of Pediatrics

Director of Hepatology

Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition

UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh

Vikrant Rachakonda, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

UPMC Center for Liver Diseases

R. Warren Sands, MD, PhD

Advanced Research Pathway Fellow, Year IV

Obaid S. Shaikh, MD, FRCP

Professor of Medicine

UPMC Center for Liver Diseases

Director, Transplantation Medicine

VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System

All individuals in a position to control the content of this education activity including members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, and/or content reviewers have disclosed all relevant financial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services, used on, or consumed by, patients. 

The following relevant financial relationships were disclosed:

• Michael Babich, MD is on the CE Speakers’ Bureaus for Gilead, Abbvie, Salix, and Intercept.  He is also a stockholder in the North Shore Endoscopy Center, LLC.
• Ramon Bataller, MD, PhD presented at a paid speaking engagement in June 2019 with Echosens.
• Jaideep Behari, MD, PhD received grant/research support from the General Electric Company and has institutional research contracts with Intercept, Gilead, Enanta, Celgene, and Shire.
• Andres Duarte-Rojo, MD, PhD receives grant/research support from Echosens and is a consultant with Axcella Health, Inc. and Mallinckrodt. 
• Michael Dunn, MD is a consultant with Axcella Health, Inc.
• Jordan Feld, MD, MPH receives grant/research support from Abbvie, Gilead, Janssen, and Wako/Fujifilm.  He is also a consultant with Abbott, Abbvie, Gilead, Enanta, and Roche.
• Patrick McKiernan, MD is a consultant with Albireo.

No other planners, members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships to disclose.