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Francis Family Liver Clinic Research Team

Research Director: Dr. Jordan Feld

Biology Lead: Dr. Adam Gehring, PhD

Basic Science Research Lab Team: Alexander Mosa, Stuti Shah, Atif Zahoor

Biostatistician: Leila Amiri, PhD

Clinical Research Staff Hepatologists and Fields of Expertise

Dr. Morven Cunningham – Checkpoint Inhibitor Hepatotoxicity, Hepato-oncology
Dr. Jordan Feld – Hepatitis B and C, Wilson Disease
Dr. Scott Fung – Hepatitis B and C
Dr. Aliya Gulamhusein – Primary Biliary Cholangitis, Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis, Autoimmune Hepatitis
Dr. Gideon Hirschfield – Primary Biliary Cholangitis, Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis, Autoimmune Hepatitis
Dr. Fernanda Onofrio – Alcohol-related liver disease, MASLD, Cirrhosis
Dr. Keyur Patel – Liver Fibrosis/Fatty Liver
Dr. Hemant Shah – Education
Dr. Arndt Vogel – Liver cancer, Bile duct cancer
Dr. David Wong – Hepatitis B, C and HIV co-infection
Dr. Florence Wong – Portal Hypertension, Ascites

Affiliate Scientist

Dr. Harry Janssen – Hepatitis B

Affiliate Scientist/Senior Biostatistician

Dr. Bettina Hansen, PhD

Senior Manager, Clinical Research

Seham Noureldin

Clinical Research Nurses

Bethany Barber
Emily Ho
Danie La

Melissa Reyes
Grace Wong

Clinical Research Coordinators/Analysts/Assistants

Nilofur Aga
Aisha Alawi
Jenna Bavota
Madeline Cameron
Jiayun (Jenny) Chen
Zhaolu Ding
Claire Gage
Christine Hu

Drashti Jain
Ripandeep Kaur
Nishat Rashid
Ambreen Syeda
Sarah Sousa Tran
Shani Nagler
Sanam Tabataba Vakili
Doinita Vladutu

Research Fellows / Scientific Associate

Avisha Chowdhury
Andrew Mendlowitz
Loghman Salimzadeh
Yanal Ghosheh
Atif Zahoor

PhD & Graduate Students (2024 - 2025)

Nahla Fadl ElMawla
Maria George
Matthew Gee
Grishma Hirode
Jonah Lin
Ayoub Mahassine

Gharaza Nasir
Juan Sanchez Vasquez (Diego)
Amir Reza Mojtahed Zahed
Serena (Zeqi) Wan
Vicky Xie

Research Students/Appointees/Volunteers

Afrah Abdul Hakeem
Wesam Aleyadeh
Nader Allam
Daniel Cooper
Saima Naim
Chloe Nguyen
Ava Poirier

Fabiha Razzak
Sohan Rasul
Natalie Simonian
Rebecca Sole
Maxwell Tong
Kaijo Yacht
Andy Zhu

Special Project Staff

HepCnet

Coordinator: Stephanie Vieira

Viral Hepatitis Care Network (VIRCAN)

Manager: Camelia Capraru
Community Outreach Coordinators: Aaron Vanderhoff
Clinical Research Nurse: Bethany Barber
Clinical Research Associate: David Smookler
Clinical Research Coordinator: Medi Usoro
Clinical Research Analyst: Sarah Sousa Tran
Post Doctoral Fellows: Kate Dunn

Hepatitis Education Peer Support Group

Hepatitis Education Support Worker:

Global PBC Study Group

Toronto Site contact: Shani Nagler

Canadian Network for Autoimmune Liver Disease (CaNAL)

Toronto Site Contact: Madeline Cameron
Investigator Initiated PSC studies: Aisha Alawi
Visiting Autoimmune Liver Disease Fellow: TBD

Autoimmune Liver Team. (Photo: UHN)

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