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Abraham Albert Hijmans van den Bergh

Abraham Albert Hijmans van den Bergh (1869–1943) was a Dutch internist who developed the quantitative van den Bergh reaction for serum bilirubin, distinguishing obstructive from hemolytic jaundice.

Adolf Kußmaul

Adolf Kußmaul (1822–1902) was a German physician who described Kussmaul breathing in diabetic coma, Kussmaul's sign, and pulsus paradoxus, and performed the first gastroscopy on a sword swallower in 1868.

Adrian M. Di Bisceglie

Adrian M. Di Bisceglie is a South African-born hepatologist known for research on viral hepatitis, who led the liver diseases section at the NIH and joined Saint Louis University in 1994.

Alan F. Hofmann

Alan F. Hofmann (1931–2021) was an American gastrointestinal physiologist and professor of medicine at UC San Diego, best known for showing that chenodeoxycholic acid dissolves cholesterol gallstones.

Albert J. Czaja

Albert J. Czaja is an American hepatologist and Professor Emeritus of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for his work on the diagnosis and treatment of autoimmune hepatitis.

Alexander C. Ford

Alexander C. Ford is a British gastroenterologist, Professor at the University of Leeds and consultant at Leeds Teaching Hospitals, known for research on irritable bowel syndrome and functional dyspepsia.

Alexander L. Gerbes

Alexander L. Gerbes is a German hepatologist and professor at LMU Munich, known for a 2000 New England Journal of Medicine trial of paracentesis versus TIPS in cirrhosis.

Allan G. Redeker

Allan G. Redeker was an American hepatologist, a 30-year USC professor who co-led the USC Liver Unit and was the AASLD's twenty-second president in 1971.

Andrew Conway Ivy

Andrew Conway Ivy (1893–1978) was an American gastrointestinal physiologist at Northwestern University who helped shape the Nuremberg Code, then championed the discredited cancer drug Krebiozen.

Andrew D. Yeoman

Andrew D. Yeoman is a consultant hepatologist at the Gwent Liver Unit, Newport, Wales, and clinical lead of the Wales Liver Plan and the UK Liver Alliance's early detection work.

Andrew H. Soll

Andrew H. Soll is an American physician-scientist in gastric physiology and acid-peptic disease, known for work on how the stomach secretes acid and how peptic ulcers form and heal.

Andrew K. Burroughs

Andrew K. Burroughs, also known as Andrew Burroughs, was a British hepatologist and professor at University College London who spent 35 years at the Royal Free Hospital's liver center.

Anna Mae Diehl

Anna Mae Diehl is an American hepatologist known for research on liver injury and fatty liver disease, who directs the Duke Liver Center at Duke University.

Anna S. Lok

Anna Suk-Fong Lok is a hepatologist at the University of Michigan who led the first interferon-free cure of hepatitis C and authored the first WHO hepatitis B guideline.

Anthony Lembo

Anthony Lembo is an American gastroenterologist who studies IBS and chronic constipation, formerly Professor of Medicine at Harvard and now Vice Chair of Research at Cleveland Clinic.

Antonello Pietrangelo

Antonello Pietrangelo (born 1956) is an Italian physician-scientist and professor of internal medicine at the University of Modena whose work established hereditary hemochromatosis as a family of iron-loading disorders centered on hepcidin.

Antonio Gasbarrini

Antonio Gasbarrini (born 1963 in Bologna) is an Italian physician and gastroenterologist, full professor of internal medicine in Rome, known for research on the gut microbiota and liver disease.

Arun J. Sanyal

Arun J. Sanyal is a hepatologist at Virginia Commonwealth University who led the PIVENS trial, chairs the NIH NASH Clinical Research Network, and directs its liver disease institute.

Atsushi Miyajima

Atsushi Miyajima (宮島 篤) is a Japanese cell biologist who cloned the IL-3 and GM-CSF receptor subunits and studies liver development, regeneration, and iPS cell-derived liver tissue.

Augustin Nicolas Gilbert

Augustin Nicolas Gilbert (1858–1927) was a French physician and professor of clinical medicine at the Hôtel-Dieu in Paris, known for describing Gilbert's syndrome, a benign familial jaundice.

Augusto Villanueva

Augusto Villanueva Rodriguez is a Spanish-trained hepatologist known for widely cited reviews of hepatocellular carcinoma and for directing the Liver Cancer Program at NYU Langone's Perlmutter Cancer Center.

Bana Jabrì

Bana Jabri is a French-born immunologist known for celiac disease research, a University of Chicago Distinguished Service Professor who directs Institut Imagine in Paris since 2025.

Barbara Rehermann

Barbara Rehermann is a German-trained physician-scientist who leads the Immunology Section of the Liver Diseases Branch at NIH, studying immune responses to hepatitis B and C.

Benjamin M. Banks

Benjamin M. Banks was an American gastroenterologist and clinical investigator at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston and Harvard Medical School, known for research on ulcerative colitis and serum leucine aminopeptidase diagnostics.

Bernd Schnabl

Bernd Schnabl is a German-trained gastroenterologist and Professor of Medicine at UC San Diego since 2008, known for research on the gut–liver axis and bacteriophage therapy for alcoholic liver disease.

Bin Gao

Bin Gao is a physician-scientist who leads the Laboratory of Liver Diseases at NIAAA, NIH, and created the widely used NIAAA mouse model of alcoholic liver disease.

Brian G. Feagan

Brian G. Feagan, also known as Brian Feagan, was a Canadian gastroenterologist and clinical epidemiologist at Western University who led more than 140 trials of inflammatory bowel disease treatments.

Bruce A. Runyon

Bruce A. Runyon is an American hepatologist whose 1992 study established the serum-ascites albumin gradient as the standard test for ascites, and who wrote the AASLD ascites guideline.

Bruce E. Sands

Bruce E. Sands is an American gastroenterologist and clinical researcher in inflammatory bowel disease, chief of gastroenterology at Mount Sinai since 2010 after Harvard and Massachusetts General.

Bruce R. Bacon

Bruce R. Bacon, also known as Bruce Bacon (1949–2025), was an American hepatologist at Saint Louis University who helped discover the HFE hemochromatosis gene and led hepatitis C clinical trials.