The Liver Center

Clinical and Clinical Research Staff

Gyongyi Szabo, MD, PhD

• Director of Hepatology and Liver Center
• Associate Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

Savant Mehta, MD

• Assistant Professor of Medicine
• Medical Director, Liver Transplantation

Lawton Shick, MD

• Assistant Professor of Medicine
• Medical Co-Director, Liver Transplantation

Graham Barnard, MD, PhD

• Associate Professor of Medicine

Kyung Kim, MD

• Assistant Professor of Medicine

Wahid Wasseff, M.D.

• Director of Endoscopy
• Associate Professor of Medicine

Kanishka Bhattacharya, M.D.

• Assistant Professor of Medicine

Eliezer Katz, M.D.

• Director of Liver Transplant
• Associate Professor of Surgery

Linda Marshall, RN

• Hepatology Nurse Specialist

Donna D'Agostino, RN, NP

• Hepatitis Nurse Specialist

Maureen Cormier, RN

• Senior Clinical Research Coordinator

Dawn Bombard, RN

• Clinical Research Coordinator

Donna Giansiracusa, RN

• Clinical Research Coordinator

Michelle Halvorsen, RN, NP

• Liver Transplant Coordinator

Nan Hocking, RN, CCTC

• Liver Transplant Coordinator

Research Staff

Pranoti Mandrekar., Ph.D.

• Research Associate Professor

Angela Dolganiuc, M.D., Ph.D

• Postdoctoral research associate

Laszlo Romics, M.D.

• Postdoctoral fellow

Yvonne Drechsler , Ph.D.

• Postdoctoral fellow

Andrea Kopasz, M.D.

• Postdoctoral fellow

Clinical interest and expertise:

Acute and chronic viral hepatitis:
Savant Mehta
Lawton Shick
Gyongyi Szabo

Alcoholic liver disease:
Gyongyi Szabo

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and NASH:
Gyongyi Szabo

End-stage liver disease:
Lawton Shick

Liver transplantation:
Savant Mehta
Lawton Shick
Eliezer Katz

Hepatocellular cancer:
Graham Barnard
Savant Mehta

Ongoing clinical treatment trials: