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Welcome to Scripps Health: A World of Healing

Course Director

Paul Pockros, MD, FACP, FACG
Head, Division of Gastroenterology/Hepatology
Director, Liver Disease Center
Scripps Clinic
Director, SC Liver Research Consortium
La Jolla, California

San Diego Faculty

Paul J. Pockros, MD, FACP
Scripps Clinic

Tarek Hassanein, MD
Southern California Liver Centers

Andrea Scherschel, NP
Scripps Clinic

Miami Faculty

Lennox J. Jeffers, MD
Miami VA Medical Center

Nikolaos Pyrsopoulos, MD, PhD, MBA
Florida Hospital

Marie Antoine, NP
Miami VA Medical Center

San Francisco Faculty

Norrah Terrault, MD
University of California, San Francisco

Natalie Bzowej, MD
California Pacific Medical Center

Marice Thomas, MSN
Sutter Pacific Medical Foundation

Los Angeles Faculty

Sammy Saab, MD
University of California, Los Angeles

Fred Poordad, MD
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Mary Peralta Sr., LVN
University of California, Los Angeles

Washington, DC Faculty

Zobair Younossi, MD
Inova Fairfax Hospital

Nila Rafiq, MD
Inova Fairfax Hospital

Brian Lam, PA
Inova Health System

Houston Faculty

Norman Sussman, MD
Baylor College of Medicine

John Vierling, MD
Baylor College of Medicine

Scott Vela, MSN, ANP, GNP
Liver Associates of Texas

New York Faculty

Douglas Dieterich, MD
Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Ira Jacobson, MD
Weill-Cornell Medical Center

Michel Ng, NP
Mount Sinai Medical Center

Mary Olson, NP
Weill-Cornell Medical Center

Seattle Faculty

Kris Kowdley, MD
University of Washington

Chia Wang, MD
Virginia Mason Medical Center

Lacey Siekas, DNP, ARNP
Virginia Mason Medical Center

Faculty Disclosure

In accordance with the ACCME Standards for Commercial Support, course directors, planning committees, faculty and all others in control of the educational content of the CME activity must disclose all relevant financial relationships with any commercial interest that they or their spouse/partner may have had within the past 12 months. If an individual refuses to disclose relevant financial relationships, they will be disqualified from being a part of the planning and implementation of this CME activity. Employees of a commercial interest with business lines or products relating to the content of the CME activity will not participate in the planning or any accredited portion of the conference. Disclosure will be made to all participants at the conference location, prior to the educational activity commencement.