Zobair YOUNOSSI

MD, MPH, FACG, FACP, AGAF, FAASLD, Inova Health System, Virginie, USA

Zobair M YOUNOSSI MD MPH is the Chairman of the Global NASH Council, Professor and Chairman of Beatty Liver and Obesity Research.

Dr. YOUNOSSI earned his medical degree from the University of Rochester School of Medicine (AOA 1989) with post graduate training (medicine, gastroenterology and hepatology) at Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, while earning his master of public health degree with multiple honours from San Diego State University (1995). He served as Staff Hepatologist and Senior Researcher at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, before establishing the Canter for Liver Diseases and Beatty Liver and Obesity Research Program at Inova Health System, which are now renowned for outcomes research in liver disease as well as pioneering research in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) or Metabolic Dysfunction Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD).
He has also served as Vice President and Chairman of Research for Inova Health System (2010-2022) and is the current President and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Chronic Liver Disease Foundation (2018-Present) and serves on the Board of Inova Health System Foundation (2011-Present).

Dr. YOUNOSSI specializes in hepatology has authored 760 articles, 3 books, 7 journal supplements, 26 book chapters and 1074 abstracts presented at the international scientific meetings and has an H-index of 112. He is also among the most cited scholars in Liver Disease and NAFLD according to Scholar GPS-2022.

Dr. YOUNOSSI has also served as the co-editor A Editor of liver journals.