Dr. Akiyama is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Clinician-Investigator in the Divisions of General Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases. In addition to providing care and treatment to people living with HIV, hepatitis C virus (HCV), and substance use disorders, Dr. Akiyama conducts research focusing on HCV among socioeconomically marginalized populations with particular emphasis on the intersection of HCV in the criminal legal system and sub-Saharan Africa. Dr. Akiyama is the recipient of a K99/R00 award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to develop and test an innovative strategy to improve linkage to and retention in HCV treatment among individuals recently released from jail. He is also the recipient of an Avenir Award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse focused on HCV Transmission Networks Among People Who Inject Drugs. Dr. Akiyama is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Hepatitis C. His top areas of expertise are Hepatitis C, Hepatitis, HIV/AIDS, and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).

Elizabeth Verna is a Hepatologist in New York, New York. Dr. Verna is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Hepatitis C. Her top areas of expertise are Hepatitis, Hepatitis C, Liver Failure, Liver Transplant, and Colonoscopy.

Douglas Dieterich is a Hepatologist in New York, New York. Dr. Dieterich is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Hepatitis C. His top areas of expertise are Hepatitis, Hepatitis C, Cirrhosis, Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, and Liver Transplant.

Ira Jacobson is a Hepatologist in New York, New York. Dr. Jacobson has been practicing medicine for over 47 years and is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Hepatitis C. His top areas of expertise are Hepatitis, Hepatitis C, Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, Liver Transplant, and Endoscopy.

Kristina R. Chacko, MD, is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, NY.  She joined the Einstein-Montefiore Liver Center in 2013 after completing a fellowship in Transplant Hepatology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, NY.  She received her bachelor of arts in philosophy at Boston College and attended medical school at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX.  She completed her internal medicine residency at Emory University in Atlanta, GA, and gastroenterology fellowship at New York University.  Her clinical and research interests include the diagnosis and management of alcoholic hepatitis, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, autoimmune liver diseases, and liver transplantation.  As the program director of the ACGME-accredited transplant hepatology fellowship at Montefiore Medical Center, she is directly involved in the development and execution of the hepatology curriculum for gastroenterology and hepatology fellows. Dr. Chacko is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Hepatitis C. Her top areas of expertise are Hepatitis, Hepatitis A, Visceromegaly, Hepatitis C, and Liver Transplant.

Jean Emond is a Transplant Surgeon and a General Surgeon in New York, New York. Dr. Emond is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Hepatitis C. His top areas of expertise are Liver Cancer, Liver Failure, Pancreatic Cancer, Liver Transplant, and Hepatectomy.

Robert Brown is a Hepatologist and a Gastroenterologist in New York, New York. Dr. Brown is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Hepatitis C. His top areas of expertise are Visceromegaly, Cirrhosis, Hepatitis, Hepatitis C, and Liver Transplant.

John Reinus is a Gastroenterologist in Bronx, New York. Dr. Reinus is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Hepatitis C. His top areas of expertise are Hepatitis, Autoimmune Hepatitis, Hepatitis C, Visceromegaly, and Liver Transplant.

Norbert Brau is an Infectious Disease provider in Bronx, New York. Dr. Brau is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Hepatitis C. His top areas of expertise are Hepatitis C, Hepatitis, HIV/AIDS, and Long Haul COVID.

Gene Im is a Hepatologist in New York, New York. Dr. Im is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Hepatitis C. His top areas of expertise are Hepatitis, Alcoholic Cirrhosis, Liver Failure, Liver Transplant, and Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery.

Ype De Jong is a Gastroenterologist in New York, New York. Dr. De Jong is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Hepatitis C. His top areas of expertise are Hepatitis, Fibrolamellar Carcinoma, Hepatitis C, and Hepatitis B.

Hillel Tobias is an Internal Medicine specialist and a Transplant Surgeon in New York, New York. Dr. Tobias is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Hepatitis C. His top areas of expertise are Hepatitis, Hepatitis C, Visceromegaly, Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, and Liver Transplant.

David Khasidy is a primary care provider, practicing in Internal Medicine in Queens, New York. Dr. Khasidy is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Hepatitis C. His top areas of expertise are Asthma, Asthma in Children, Maturity Onset Diabetes of the Young, and Vitamin D Deficiency.

Bruce Gelb is a Transplant Surgeon and a General Surgeon in New York, New York. Dr. Gelb is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Hepatitis C. His top areas of expertise are End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD), Chronic Antibody-Mediated Rejection, Hepatitis, Kidney Transplant, and Simultaneous Pancreas Kidney Transplant.

Sanjaya Satapathy is a Hepatologist and a Transplant Surgeon in Manhasset, New York. Dr. Satapathy is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Hepatitis C. His top areas of expertise are Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis, Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, Hepatitis, Liver Transplant, and Endoscopy.

James Park is a Hepatologist and a Transplant Surgeon in Manhasset, New York. Dr. Park is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Hepatitis C. His top areas of expertise are Hepatitis, Visceromegaly, Cirrhosis, and Jaundice.

Liver regeneration is critical for health. We focus on physiology of liver regeneration during development, early childhood and adulthood to inform mechanistic disruptions in diseases. The latter ranges from acute liver failure, effects of drugs, toxins, alcohol, virus hepatitis, obesity-related metabolic (or nonalcoholic) liver disease, chronic hepatitis, e.g., Wilson disease with copper toxicosis, and allograft rejection. The mechanisms concerning DNA damage response directed by ATM gene and downstream partners are of considerable interest to us. Dr. Gupta is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Hepatitis C. His top areas of expertise are Pediatric Low-Grade Glioma (pLGG), ALK-Positive Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer, Fibrolamellar Carcinoma, and Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer.

Milan Kinkhabwala, MD, FACS, is Chief, Division of Transplantation Surgery and Professor of Surgery and Medicine at Montefiore Einstein. He is also Director, Hepatobiliary Cancer at Montefiore Einstein Center for Cancer Care and Director, Abdominal Transplantation at Montefiore Einstein Center for Transplantation. He joined the Montefiore team in 2007 to help build the Transplant Center of Excellence, which included the development of a new liver disease program in adults and children. Dr. Kinkhabwala is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Hepatitis C. His top areas of expertise are Familial Pancreatic Cancer, Pancreatic Cancer, Liver Cancer, Kidney Transplant, and Liver Transplant.

Marla Keller, MD is a tenured Professor of Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynecology and Women’s Health, named holder of the Jacob and Jeanne Barkey Chair in Medicine, and Executive Dean. She previously served as Interim Senior Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Research, Director of the Harold and Muriel Block Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, and Vice Chair of Research for the Department of Medicine. Her clinical focus centers on treating HIV and COVID-19 and offering in-patient infectious disease consultation. Dr. Keller is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Hepatitis C. Her top areas of expertise are Genital Herpes, HIV/AIDS, Human Papillomavirus Infection, and Hepatitis C.

Nithan Narendra is a Gastroenterologist in Bronx, New York. Dr. Narendra is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Hepatitis C. His top areas of expertise are Hepatitis C, Hepatitis, Childhood Volvulus, Endoscopy, and Gastrectomy.