2025 AASLD Foundation Abstract Awardees
American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) Foundation Abstract Awards recognize excellence and promote the professional development of early career investigators. These awards provide recipients travel support to defray costs associated with attending The Liver Meeting® or Digestive Disease Week® to present their outstanding research to an international audience.
DIGESTIVE DISEASE WEEK® 2025 AASLD FOUNDATION ABSTRACT AWARDEES
Congratulations to these outstanding investigators who will present their award-winning abstracts at Digestive Disease Week® May 3-6, 2025.
FELLOW ABSTRACT AWARD IN HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES RESEARCH
Mai Sedki, MD, MPH
Stanford University, United States
IMPACT OF DISEASE STATE TRANSITIONS ON CIRRHOSIS RISK ACROSS RACIAL/ETHNIC GROUPS IN US VETERANS WITH STEATOTIC LIVER DISEASE
Ella Shanahan, MBBS
Vancouver General Hospital, Canada
EVALUATING THE OUTCOMES OF PATIENTS TRANSPLANTED FOR ALCOHOL-RELATED LIVER DISEASE IN BRITISH COLUMBIA: A RETROSPECTIVE AND PROSPECTIVE LONGITUDINAL COHORT STUDY
FELLOW ABSTRACT AWARDS
Kiandokht Bashiri, MD, MSc
Georgetown University/MedStar Washington Hospital Center, United States
INTEGRATIVE ANALYSIS OF MIRNA AND TCR-RELATED GENE DYSREGULATION IN AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS
Shoma Bommena MD, MS
University of Arizona College of Medicine-Tucson, United States
PRE-TIPS DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION AS A PREDICTOR OF POST-TIPS OUTCOMES IN CIRRHOSIS PATIENTS
Scott B. Minchenberg, MD, PhD
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center & Harvard Medical School, United States
BINGE DRINKING TRIGGERS NEUTROPHIL EXTRACELLULAR TRAPS (NETS) IN THE PROXIMAL SMALL BOWEL LEADING TO AN ENTEROPATHY WITH INCREASED GUT PERMEABILITY
Prasanna Venkatesh Ramachandran, MD, PhD
Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, United States
DISRUPTION OF PRIMARY CILIA IN HEPATOBILIARY DEVELOPMENT: INSIGHTS INTO BILIARY ATRESIA PATHOGENESIS
Priya S. Rolfes, MD, MSCS
Children's Hospital Colorado/University of Colorado, United States
UNBIASED PROTEOMICS AND METABOLOMICS REVEALS UNIQUE BIOMARKERS IN PEDIATRIC PSC-IBD
Aalam Sohal, MD
Creighton University- Phoenix Health Sciences, United States
PREVALENCE OF STEATOTIC LIVER DISEASE (MASLD, METALD, AND ALD) ACROSS VARIOUS SOCIOECONOMIC STRATA IN US ADULTS
