Academic Hepatologist; Associate Chief of Medicine and Chief of GI/Hepatology @Miami VA; Associate Prof @UMiami, Interest in HCC, PBC, cirrhosis

Miami, FL
Joined March 2019
Cheers to another successful AGA Leadership Summit! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Thank you, AGA leaders, for your ideas and leadership to grow the specialty! @VictorChedidMD @CulpepperJoan @JHashashMD @AndyChanMD @Jarshah4 @SultanShazi @drkylestaller @docbinujohn @priyanka_kanth
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Best practices for managing ascites, volume overload & hyponatremia in cirrhosis. Our new CPU in @AGA_Gastro shares 1️⃣3️⃣ evidence-based tips to support clinical decision-making. Read more here: ow.ly/4zLY50XLcfX @orman_md @BrettEFortuneMD @AsraniSumeet #GITwitter
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🔥Metylated blood-based HCC biomarker is more sensitive than US for #HCC surveillance. #TLM25 by @docbinujohn @AASLDtweets @DrHuangDQ @Apichatka @wonglaihung
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🚨 New insights on managing hepatitis delta virus (HDV): Our new CPU, published in @AGA_Gastro, highlights screening, diagnosis, and therapies. 📖 Read more: ow.ly/wOuS50X6oYO @TatyanaKushner @Robert_J_Wong #GItwitter
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Today was a full day with our #AGAleaders! Plenty of conversation to chart a path forward for AGA and the future of GI. 🙌🏼 @docbinujohn @LarryKimMD @DrLorenGR @MccutchenDr @MichelleKimMD @ShaziaMSiddique @JHashashMD @IBDimmunology
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MASLD-HCC can occur in absence of cirrhosis Our study 30,414 patients with MASLD in Hepatology HCC risk ↑ by 18% per 5kPa ↑ in LSM In pts with MASLD without cirrhosis, LSM of ≥10 kPa and diabetes, HCC risk is high enough to warrant screening lnkd.in/e5fHZHZ8
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We need to spread the word about MASH Awareness is low, particularly amongst people at risk and frontline providers Hot of the presses in @HepCommJournal journals.lww.com/hepcomm/ful… #easl2025
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Just found out the study section scheduled to review my grant today was canceled. I spent three months writing it, representing five years of work from my lab. Gutted. @NIH
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NEW in @LancetGastroHep: led by our @juanpabloarab, "Management of alcohol use disorder: a gastroenterology and hepatology-focused perspective" 🍺 🍷 🍹 Needs integrated multidisciplinary teams. #livertwitter #alcoholism @JasmohanBajaj @saulkarpen authors.elsevier.com/a/1kc07…
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DOGE @elonmusk approach feels like a surgeon trying to remove a small tumor using a saw instead of a scalpel, without pre-op imaging or taking a patient history, and also removing organs that aren’t diseased but that they just don’t like. And with med students doing the procedure
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📢 Live from #TLM2024 HCC debrief by Neehar Parikh ➡️ Liver stiffness may help refine HCC screening in MASLD pts ➡️ Are lower AFP levels better than the usual cutoffs for screening cured HCV, ALD, and MASLD patients? @AASLDtweets
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Excited to return to my #IBD roots @IBDCedarsSinai to work alongside a great team. Come visit! @AmerGastroAssn
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New Clinical Practice Update in @AGA_Gastro from Drs. @AmitPatelDukeMD @Duke_GI_, @LorenLaine2, @PaulMoayyedi and Justin Wu offers 9️⃣ pieces of expert advice to guide the integration of P-CABs in the management of foregut disorders. 🔗 Learn more ow.ly/aPpy50U1tE3
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2 days of intense research brainstorming for grants and studies to improve the care of patients with liver disease #VOCAL #PennYaleMiami @mezzacappa_c @RabieeAnahita @serperm @KaplanDeLiver #TamarTaddei @docbinujohn @ggarciatsao
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@AmerGastroAssn advocate @MimiTanMD speaking on the need for strong NIH, DoD, VA funding for GI research 🔬, prior auth & step therapy reform & the need for Medicare physician payment reform #AGAadvocacy
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Making the rounds in #WashingtonDC for #AGAAdvocacyDay with my colleagues, and of course, always have to represent when I see a Cuban flag 🇨🇺. @AmerGastroAssn
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@AmerGastroAssn 2024 Leadership Summit is set and ready to welcome 160 leaders to DC🎉
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It’s #AGAAdvocacy Day and we’re fighting on behalf of GI patient care issues — everything from #priorauth and #steptherapy reform, Medicare physician reimbursement, digestive disease research funding + more. @JGubatanMD @BCryer @DrKimEBarrett @penngihep
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Our governing board welcomed new and incoming committee chairs today! Thank you to our AGA leaders for being engaged and involved. 🫱🏼‍🫲🏾
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Great discussion at today’s clinical practice update committee session with @docbinujohn, @JHashashMD and more.
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