2022 Webinar: Leveling the Playing Field: Promoting Women in Academia

Tatyana Kushner, MD, MSCE, is Assistant Professor in the Division of Liver Diseases at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. She completed her medical school and internal medicine training at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, a fellowship in gastroenterology and a masters in clinical epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania, and a fellowship in transplant hepatology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Her research focuses on both epidemiologic and patient-centered outcomes in viral hepatitis, with an emerging focus in the area of women’s health and pregnancy care, and the goal of developing and studying interventions to improve clinical outcomes in this patient population. She has recently established a Women's Liver Clinic at Mount Sinai in order to enhance the diagnosis and management of liver disease during pregnancy and post-delivery, particularly of hepatitis B and hepatitis C. 

Guadalupe Garcia-Tsao, MD, FAASLD is Professor of Medicine, Chief of Digestive Diseases and Program Director of the Hepatitis C Resource Center at Veteran’s Administration-Connecticut Healthcare System, as well as Director of Clinical and Translational Core at Yale Liver Center. She is a past president of AASLD. She received her M.D. and training at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico. Her primary research focus is on clinical research which focuses on cirrhosis and its complications, and she also is involved in the study of bacterial infections in cirrhosis, a complication that is often overlooked.

Kathleen E. Corey, MD, MPH, MMSc is the Director of the MGH Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) Clinic, Associate Program Director for the Medicine Residency for Clinical and Translational Research, a hepatologist who specializes in NAFLD, Physician Investigator in the CTEU, and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at HMS.

 Dr. Corey’s interests include clinical and translational research in NAFLD. She aims to better understand predictors of development and progression of NAFLD, the interplay between cardiovascular disease and NAFLD and the natural history of NAFLD in persons living with HIV (PLWH). She is the Co-PI for an R01 evaluating the role of tesamorelin, a growth hormone-releasing hormone for the treatment of NAFLD and is involved in an NIH-funded study on the prevalence, risk factors and treatment of NAFLD in PLWH.

 Dr. Corey earned her MD at Duke University School of Medicine, her MPH from the University of North Carolina and her MMSc from Harvard Medical School. Prior to joining the faculty of MGH, she completed her training in Internal Medicine, Chief Residency, Gastroenterology and Advanced Hepatology and Liver Transplant at MGH.