SYMPOSIUM FACULTY
Emanuele Albano MD PhD (Biochemistry)
Professor of General Pathology
Dept of Medical Sciences
University "Amedeo Avogadro" of East Piedmont Via
Solaroli
17 28100 Novara, Italy
Abdullah M. S. Al-Osaimi,
MD
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Department of Internal Medicine
University of Virginia Health System
Charlottesville, VA
Dr Quentin Anstee PhD,
MRCP
Liver Disease Group
Imperial College London
London, England UK
Gavin E. Arteel,
PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology
James Graham Brown Cancer Center
University of Louisville, HSC
Louisville, KY
Rasheed Balogun, MD
Division of Nephrology
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
Richard J. Benjamin,
MD PhD
Chief Medical Officer
American Red Cross Biomedical Services
National Headquarters
Carl L Berg, MD
Associate Chief of Gastroenterology for Education
Medical Director of Liver Transplantation
GI/Hepatology, University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
Paulo Bittencourt, MD, PhD
Hepatology and Liver Transplantation
Portuguese Hospital
of Salvador
Salvador, Bahia, Brasil
Andrew K Burroughs, FRCP
Liver Disease Group
Royal Free Hospital
London, England UK
Stephen Caldwell, MD
Director of Hepatology
Division GI/Hepatology
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia
Flair José Carrilho,
MD
Chairman, Gastroenterology
University of São Paulo
São Paulo - SP, Brazil
Olivier Chazouilleres, MD
Professor of Hepatology, Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris VI;
Director, Digestive Department, Hôpital Saint-Antoine,
AP-HP, Service d'Hépatologie, Centre de référence des
maladies inflammatoires du foie et des voies biliaires
and Unité Inserm U680
Paris, France
Laurie D. DeLeve,
MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine
University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine
Division of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases and the
Research
Center for Liver Diseases
Los Angeles, CA
Gines Escolar, MD
Jefe de Seccion
Serv. Hemoterapia-Hemostasia
Barcelona
Spain
Don A. Gabriel MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine
UNC School of Medicine
Chapel Hill, NC
Pere Ginès, MD
Associate Professor
Faculty of Medicine
University of Barcelona
Chairman
Liver Unit, Hospital Clinic
Barcelona, Spain
H.G.D. Hendriks,
MD, PhD
Department of Anesthesiology
University Medical Center
Groningen, The Netherlands
Maureane Hoffman, MD, PhD
Professor of Pathology
Duke University Medical Center
Chief, Blood Bank and Hematology Laboratories
Durham VA Medical Center
Durham, NC
Yoshihiro Ikur, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology
Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine
Osaka, Japan
Patrick S. Kamath, MD
Professor of Medicine
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Rochester, MN
Andreas Kramer, MD
Neurology
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
Samuel S. Lee, MD, FRCPC
Professor of Medicine
University of Calgary
Calgary, Canada
Frank W.G. Leebeek, MD PhD
Haematologist
Dept of Haematology
Section of Thrombosis and Haemostasis
Erasmus University Medical Center
Rotterdam
The Netherlands
Ton Lisman, PhD
Laboratory of Clinical
Chemistry and Haematology
University Medical Centre
Utrecht The Netherlands
B Gail Macik, MD
Division of Hematology
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
Arthur J McCullough, MD
Chief Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
Santiago Munoz, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Chair, Division of Hepatology
Albert Einstein Medical Center
Jefferson Medical College
Philadelphia, PA
Patrick G Northup, MD
Assistant Professor
Digestive Health Center of Excellence
GI/Hepatology
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
Robert J. Porte, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Surgery
Section Hepatobiliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation
University Medical Center
Groningen
The Netherlands
K Rajender Reddy, MD
Director of Hepatology
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
Bruce A Runyon,
MD
Professor of Medicine,
Chief of Liver Service
Loma Linda University Medical
Center
Loma Linda, CA
Bimaljit S. Sandhu, M.D.
Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA
Arun J Sanyal, MD
Chief of GI/Hepatology
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA
Marco Senzolo, MD
Royal Free Hospital
London, England UK
R. Todd Stravitz,
MD
Hepatology, Hume Lee Transplant Center
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA
Armando Tripodi, PhD
Professor of Laboratory Medicine
Angelo Bianchi Bonomi
Hemophilia and Thrombosis Center
Department of Internal Medicine
University of Milano
Italy
James F. Trotter,
MD
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Medical Director of Liver Transplantation
Denver, CO
Francesco Violi, MD
University of Rome
La Sapienza, Italy
