Dr. Samer Gawrieh

Dr. Samer Gawrieh is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine and the Director of the Hepatology Research Fellowship Program in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Indiana University School of Medicine.

His clinical and translational research focuses on different aspects of non-alcoholic and alcoholic fatty liver disease including machine learning-based histological phenotyping, genetic modifiers, and diagnostics. He also studies hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) associated with these diseases with a particular focus on non-cirrhotic HCC.

He is NIH-funded to study NAFLD and NASH in persons living with HIV. He is also the Clinical Director of the Data Coordinating Center for the NIH-sponsored alcoholic hepatitis network, a national network of eight leading academic centers in the US that studies different aspects and therapeutics of alcoholic hepatitis. Dr. Gawrieh is a member of the Editorial Board of Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology.