Scientific Steering Committees

Nezam Afdhal, MD

• Chairman – HCV Steering Committee

• Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

• Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital (BIDMC) Boston, MA

Bruce Bacon, MD

• James F. King, MD Endowed Chair in Gastroenterology at Saint Louis University (SLU), St. Louis, MO

• Former President of the AASLD in 2004

• Chair of the AASLD Foundation since 2013

Michael Curry, MD

• Section Chief, Director of Liver Transplant, BIDMC, Boston MA

• Associate Professor, Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Steven Flamm, MD

• Professor of Medicine & Surgery, Division of Hepatology at Northwestern University, Chicago, IL

• Chief of Transplantation Hepatology

• Trustee of the AASLD Foundation

Naoky Tsai, MD

• Private Practice – Honolulu, HI

• Professor of Medicine – University of Hawaii

Zobair Younossi, MD, MPH

• Chairman, Department of Medicine, Inova Fairfax Hospital, Fairfax, VA

• Professor of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University

• Chair of the Medical Advisory Committee of the National Capital Chapter of the ALF

Kent “Kwas” Huston, MD

• Physician at the Center for Rheumatic Disease, Kansas City Physician Partners

• Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Medicine

• Board of Directors Member, American College of Rheumatology (ACR)

• Government Affairs Committee Member, American College of Rheumatology (ACR)

Simon Helfgott, MD

• Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School, Division of Rheumatology and Immunology

• Director of Education & Fellowship Training, Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), Rheumatology

• Co-Director of the Spine Center and Director of the Braintree Arthritis Center

• Co-Director, Teaching of Rheumatic Diseases at Harvard Medical School

Jasvinder Singh, MD

• Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)

• Director of the Gout Clinic at the UAB Health Sciences Foundation

• National thought-leader of systematic reviews, meta-analyses and outcomes research in patients with rheumatic diseases

Nehad Soloman, MD, FACR, CPI

• Medical Director of Arizona Arthritis Rheumatology Research

• Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine,
  Midwestern University, AZCOM
  

• President, Phoenix Rheumatology Association

Harrison Farber, MD

• Chairman – IPF/PAH Steering Committee, Trio Health

• Director, Pulmonary Hypertension Center at Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA

• Professor of Medicine- Boston University School of Medicine

Murali Chakinala, MD

• Professor of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO

• Director, Pulmonary Hypertension Center, Washington University, St. Louis, MO

Robert Frantz, MD

• Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN

• Director, Pulmonary Hypertension Clinic, Mayo Clinic

Lisa Lancaster, MD

• Associate Professor of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

• Clinical Director, Interstitial Lung Disease Program

Steven Nathan, MD

• Professor of Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University

• Director of the Advanced Lung Disease Program at Inova Fairfax Hospital

• Director of the Lung Transplant Program at Inova Fairfax Hospital

Ronald Oudiz, MD

• Professor of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine – UCLA

• Director, Liu Center for Pulmonary Hypertension, LA BioMed Research Institute at Harbor – UCLA Medical Center

Rick Elion, MD

• Chairman - HIV Steering Committee

• Associate Clinical Professor of Internal Medicine, George Washington University

• Private Practice - Washington DC

Keri Althoff, MPH, PhD

• Associate Professor - Johns Hopkins

• Co-Director of the Epidemiology / Biostatistics Core of the North American AIDS Cohort Collaboration on Research and Design (NA-ACCORD)

Joseph Eron, MD

• Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, Division of Infectious Diseases at UNC Chapel Hill, NC

• Director of the Clinical Core for the UNC Center for AIDS Research (CFAR)

Greg Huhn, MD, MPHTM

• Assistant Professor of Infectious Diseases - Rush University Medical Center, Chicago IL

• Medical Director of the Ruth M Rothstein CORE Center, Chicago IL

Tony Mills, MD

• Founder, CMO SoCal Men's Health

• Director of Clinical Research, SoCal

• Treats one of the largest population of HIV patients in Los Angeles, CA

Karam Mounzer, MD

• Clinical Professor of Medicine - UPENN

• Director of the Lax Center for the Treatment of Immune Disorders, the largest, community based HIV treatment center in Philadelphia

Graeme Moyle, MD, MB, MS, Dip GUM

• Associate Specialist in HIV Medicine

• Associate Director of HIV Research

• Honorary Clinical Teacher in Medicine, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital

Paul Sax, MD

• Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

• Clinical Director, Division of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston MA

Jorge Plutzky, MD

• Chairman - Hyperlipidemia Steering Committee

• Director, The Vascular Disease Prevention

• Director, Preventative Cardiology - Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) Boston, MA

• Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School

• Board Member - National Lipid Association

Seth Baum, MD

• President - American Society of Preventive Cardiology

• Voluntary Associate Professor of Medicine - University of Miami

• Director of Women's Preventative Cardiology at The Christine E. Lynn Women's Health, Boca Raton Regional Hospital

Edward Fisher, MD

• Leon H Carney Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Professor of Medicine - NYU

• Director of the Center of Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease and Director - Mark and Ruti Bell Program in Vascular Biology

James Underberg, MD

• President - National Lipid Association

• Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine at NYU Medical School

• Director of the Bellevue Hospital Primary Care Lipid Management Clinic and is also a member of the executive committee of the Division of General Internal Medicine

William Lumry, MD

• Private Practice - Allergy & Asthma Specialists of Dallas

• Clinical Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas 

Huamin Henry Li, MD, PhD, FAAAAI, FACAA

• Private Practice - Institute For Asthma and Allergy

• Clinical Associate Professor, George Washington University Hospital

Jason Raasch, MD

• President, Consortium of Independent Immunology Clinics

• Private Practice - Midwest Immunology Clinic and Infusion Center

Marc A. Riedl, MD

• Clinical Director, UC San Diego Health U.S. HAEA Angioedema Center