Course Planning Committee and Internal Course Faculty:

Jaideep Behari, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Director, FLOW (Fatty Liver, Obesity and Wellness) Clinic
Course Co-Director, 2022 UPMC Annual Update in Medical Hepatology

Shahid Malik, MD
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine
Program Director, Advanced Fellowship in Transplant Hepatology
Course Co-Director, 2022 UPMC Annual Update in Medical Hepatology

Amy Roundtree Schmotzer, RN, BSN
Lead Clinical Research Coordinator  
Course Planning Committee, 2022 UPMC Annual Update in Medical Hepatology

Guest Course Faculty:    
Binu V. John, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Assistant Chief of Medicine, Chief of Hepatology, and Interim Chief of Hematology and Oncology
Bruce W. Carter VA Medical Center
Miami, FL

Kymberly D. Watt, MD
Professor of Medicine
Medical Director, Living Donor Liver Transplantation
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN

Internal Course Faculty:
Kevin Abercrombie, CRNP
Advanced Practice Provider

Adeyinka Adejumo, MD
Gastroenterology and Hepatology Fellow, Year III

Gavin E. Arteel, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Associate Division Chief for Basic Science 
Pilot and Feasibility Core Director, Pittsburgh Liver 
Research Center

Stela Celaj, MD, PhD
Gastroenterology and Hepatology Fellow, Year II

Kapil B. Chopra, MD
Professor of Medicine
Vice Chair of Medicine, UPMC Mercy

Fadi F. Francis, MD
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine
Medical Director, UPMC Center for Liver Diseases

Swaytha Ganesh, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Medical Director, Living Donor Liver Transplant
    (LDLT) Program

Jennifer Kilpatrick, MSN, RN, CCTC
Clinical Transplant Coordinator
Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Center

Nabeeha Mohy-ud-din, MD
Advanced Fellow in Transplant Hepatology

Alex H. Myint, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Hepatologist, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System

Alan G. Noll, MD
Gastroenterology and Hepatology Fellow, Year II

John Rhee, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Hematology/Oncology

Shari S. Rogal, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine and Surgery
Co-director, CTSI IMPACT and Implementation Lab Cores  
Core Investigator, Center for Health Equity Research and
Promotion, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System

Obaid S. Shaikh, MD
Professor of Medicine
Director, Transplantation Medicine, VA Pittsburgh
Healthcare System

Harkirat Singh, MBBS
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, Pharmacology 
and Biology

COURSE FACULTY DISCLOSURES
All individuals in a position to control the content of this education activity have disclosed all financial relationships with any companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. 

All of the relevant financial relationships for the individuals listed below have been mitigated:
▪    Jaideep Behari, MD, PhD receives grant/research support from Pfizer, Gilead, Endra, and AstraZeneca.  He also receives other institutional research contracts from Pfizer, Intercept, Galectin, Exact Sciences, Genentech, Inventiva, Enanta, Galmed, and Celgene.
▪    Binu V. John, MD, MPH receives grant/research support from Exact Sciences, Gilead, GSK, Glycotest Inc., Exelixis, BMS, Eisai, and Viking Therapeutics.  He is a consultant for GSK and Dova, and he is also on the speakers’ bureau for GSK.
▪    Obaid S. Shaikh, MD is a consultant with Gilead Sciences and Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals.  He is also a stockholder with Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals.  
▪    Kymberly D. Watt, MD receives grant/research support from Intercept and is the PI for this study.  She is also a stockholder with Viking and Madrigal.

No other 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 with any companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.