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Bikwa Barbra Department of Nursing Science, University Of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe. Beatriz Barranco Gastroenteology & Hepatology Department, National Medical Center, 20 de Noviembre, Mexico. Francisco Barrera Department of Gastroenterology, Escuela de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile. Ulrich Baumann Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Pediatric Kidney, Liver, and Metabolic Diseases, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany. Shamardan Bazeed Department of Tropical Medicine and Gastroenterology, Faculty of Medicine, South Valley University, Qena, Egypt. Eva Bech Spanish Federation of Liver Patients and Transplants (FNETH), Madrid, Spain. Aourarh Benayad Department of Gastroenterology, Military Teaching Hospital Mohamed V, Rabat, Morocco. Andreas Benesic Department of Medicine II, Liver Center Munich University Hospital, LMU Munich Munich Germany. David Bernstein Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Hepatology, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell Health, North Shore University Hospital, Hempstead, NY, USA. Fernando Bessone Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Hospital Provincial del Centenario, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, University of Rosario School of Medicine, Rosario 2000, Santa Fe, Argentina. Susie Birney Executive Director of Irish Coalition for People Living with Obesity, Ireland Cyrille Bisseye Department of Biology, University of Science and Technology of Masuku Franceville, Gabon. Martin Blake Resonance Health, Burswood, WA, Australia. Bilal Bobat Department of Internal Medicine, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa Leonilde Bonfrate Clinica Medica "A. Murri", Department of Biomedical Sciences & Human Oncology, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, 70124 Bari, Italy. Dmitry S Bordin Department of Pancreatic, Biliary and upper digestive tract disorders, A. S. Loginov Moscow clinical scientific center, Russia; department of outpatient therapy and family medicine, Tver State Medical University, Tver; department of propaedeutic of internal diseases and gastroenterology A.I. Yevdokimov Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry, Moscow, Russia. Francisco Bosques-Padilla Divisions of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Hospital of "Dr. José E. González", Monterrey, NL, Mexico. Jerome Boursier HepatoGastroenterology Department, Anger University Hospital, Angers, France. Boushab Mohamed Boushab Department of Internal Medicine, Aïoun Regional Hospital, Hodh El Gharbi, Mauritania. 6 David Bowen Centenary Institute and AW Morrow Gastroenterology and Liver Centre, University of Sydney and Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia. Patricia Medina Bravo Endocrinology Department, Hospital Infantil de México Federico Gómez, México Paul N Brennan Division of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK. Bisi Bright Live Well Initiative (LWI), Lagos, Nigeria. Ilse Broekaert Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University Children's Hospital, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany. Xabier Buque Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine and Nursing, University of Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Spain. Diego Burgos-Santamaría Department of Gastroenterology, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Instituto Ramón y Cajal de Investigación Sanitaria (IRYCIS), Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid, Spain. Julio Burman Hetz- Israeli Association For The Health Of the Liver, Israel. Luca Busetto Department of Medicine, University of Padova, Italy.European Association for the Study of Obesity. Christopher D Byrne NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Southampton & Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, UK. Patricia Anne I. Cabral-Prodigalidad Institute of Digestive and Liver Diseases St. Luke's Medical Center - Global City Philippines. Guillermo Cabrera-Alvarez Clinica de Higado y Gastroenterologia Integral, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico. Wei Cai Department of Infectious Diseases，Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Medicine, China. Francesca Cainelli Faculty of Medicine, University of Puthisastra, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Ali Riza Caliskan Department of Gastroenterology, Adiyaman Education and Research Hospital, Adiyaman, Turkey Ali Canbay Section of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Hospital Knappschaftskrankenhaus Bochum, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany. Ana Cano-Contreras Liver Research Unit, Instituto de Investigaciones Médico Biológicas, Universidad Veracruzana, México. Hai-Xia Cao Center for Fatty Liver, Department of Gastroenterology, Xinhua Hospital Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Medicine, Shanghai 200092, China. Zhujun Cao Department of Infectious Disease, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China. Andres Carrion Division of Digestive Health and Liver Diseases, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, 1120 Northwest 14th Street, Suite 1189, Miami, FL 33136, USA. Francesca Carubbi Metabolic Medicine Unit, OCB AOU Modena, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Teresa Casanovas President of Asociación Catalana de Pacientes Hepáticos (ASSCAT), Barcelona, Spain. Marlen I. Castellanos-Fernández Department of Research and Teaching, Institute of Gastroenterology, University of Medical Sciences of Havana, Havana City, Cuba. Jin Chai Cholestatic Liver Diseases Center and Department of Gastroenterology, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University (Army Medical University), China. Siew Pheng Chan Endocrinology Unit, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Phunchai Charatcharoenwitthaya Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Thailand. 7 Norberto Chavez-Tapia Translational Research Unit, Medica Sur Clinic & Foundation, Mexico City, Mexico. Kazuaki Chayama Collaborative Research Laboratory of Medical Innovation, Hiroshima University, 1-2-3 Kasumi, Minami-ku, Hiroshima 734-8551, Japan. Jinjun Chen Hepatology Unit, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University China Lin Chen Department of Infectious Disease, the First Hospital of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China. Zhong-Wei Chen The First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China. Huiting Chen Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Guangzhou Digestive Diseases Center, Guangzhou First People’s Hospital, China. Sui-Dan Chen Department of Pathology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China. Qiang Chen Cancer Centre, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau, Macau SAR, China. Yaxi Chen Chongqing Medical University, Centre for Lipid Research & Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Infectious Diseases, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China. Gang Chen Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China. En-Qiang Chen Center of Infectious Diseases, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, China. Fei Chen Department of Gastroenterology, St George Hospital, Australia. Fei Chen Suzhou HeRui Medical laboratory, China. Pei-Jer Chen Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Hepatitis Research Center, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan. Robert Cheng Storr Liver Unit, Westmead Hospital, Australia. Wendy Cheng Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, Australia. Jack Tan Wei Chieh Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, National Heart Centre Singapore, Singapore. Imad Chokr Department of Pediatrics, Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon. Evangelos Cholongitas First Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School of National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. Ashok Choudhury Hepatology and Liver Transplantation, Institute of Liver and Billiary Sciences, India. Abhijit Chowdhury Department of Hepatology, Indian Institute of Liver and Digestive Sciences, Sonarpur, Kolkata, India. Evaristus Sunday Chukwudike Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Nigeria. Stefano Ciardullo Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy Michelle Clayton Chair of EASL’s Nurses and Allied Health Professionals Task Force. Liver Care, School of Healthcare, University of Leeds, Leeds Liver Unit, St James's University Hospital, Leeds, Chair of The British Liver Nurses' Association (BLNA), United Kingdom. Karine Clement Sorbonne Université, Paris, France. CRNH Ile de France, INSERM, UMRS U1269, Nutrition and Obesities Systemic Approaches (NutriOmics), Paris, France. Marie Michelle Cloa Manila Doctors Hospital, Manila, Philippines. Cecilia Coccia Department of Gastroenterology, University of Cape Town, South Africa. 8 Cristina Collazos Liver unit, Hospital Clinic Barcelona, Spain. Massimo Colombo EASL International Liver Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland. Liver Center, IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy. Arif Mansur Cosar Department of Gastroenterology, Faculty of Medicine, Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon, Turkey. Helma Pinchemel Cotrim Universidade Federal da Bahia, Faculdade de Medicina da Bahia - Salvador (BA), Brazil. Joris Couillerot Digestive and colorectal surgery department, Edouard-Herriot university hospital, hospices civils de Lyon, Lyon, France. Alioune Coulibaly Association for Health and the Development Promotion in Mali (APSAD/MALI), Bamako, Mali. Association of the Malians of Washington DC (AMAW), Washington DC, USA. Gonzalo Crespo Liver Unit, Hospital Clínic, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi I Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. Javier Crespo Gastroenterology and Hepatology Unit, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, IDIVAL, Spain. Maria Cruells División of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Sanatorio Americano. Uruguay. Ian Homer Y. Cua Institute of Digestive and Liver Diseases. St. Luke's Medical Center Global City, Philippines Hesham K. Dabbous Department of Tropical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. George N Dalekos Department of Medicine and Research Laboratory of Internal Medicine, National Expertise Center of Greece in Autoimmune Liver Diseases, Full Member of the European Reference Network on Hepatological Diseases (ERN RARE-LIVER), General University Hospital of Larissa, Larissa, Greece. Patricia D'Alia Sección Gastroenterología y Hepatología del Hospital General de Niños Pedro de Elizalde, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Li Dan Gastroenterology Department, the First Hospital of China Medical University, No.155 North Nanjing Street, Heping District, Shenyang 110001, Liaoning, China. Viet Hang Dao Internal Medicine Faculty, Hanoi Medical University, Hanoi, Vietnam. Research and Training Management Unit, Institute of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Hanoi, Vietnam. Mostafa Darwish Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Beni-Suef University, Beni Suef, Egypt. Christian Datz Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital Oberndorf, Teaching Hospital of the Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg, Paracelsusstraße 37, Oberndorf, 5110, Salzburg, Austria. Milagros B. Davalos-Moscol Department of Gastroenterology, Hospital Nacional Edgardo Rebagliati Martins, HNERM, Lima, Peru. Heba Dawoud Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, Egypt. Blanca Olaechea de Careaga Department of hepatology, Centre for Digestive Diseases, Club Nacional de Hígado, La Paz, Bolivia. Robert de Knegt Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Victor de Ledinghen Bordeaux University Hospital Branch, Bordeaux, France. Janaka de Silva Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Ragama, Sri Lanka. Nabil Debzi Hepatology Department, Mustapha Bacha university Hospital, University of Algiers, Algeria. 9 Marie Decraecker Department of Hepatology, Hospital Haut Leveque-CHU Bordeaux, Pessac, France. Elvira Del Pozo Liver Research Unit, Santa Cristina University Hospital, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Princesa, CIBERehd, Madrid, Spain. Teresa C Delgado Liver Disease Laboratory, Center for Cooperative Research in Biosciences (CIC bioGUNE, Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Bizkaia Technology Park, Building 801A, 48160 Derio, and CIBER de Enfermedades Hepaticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd), Spain. Manuel Delgado-Blanco Hepatology Unit, Digestive System Service, University Hospital of A Coruña (CHUAC), A Coruña, Spain. Łukasz Dembiński Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland. Adilson Depina Minitry of Health, Cape Verde. Moutaz Derbala Gastroenterology and Hepatology Department, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar. Hailemichael Desalegn Internal Medicine Department; St. Paul’s Hospital, Ethiopia. Christèle Desbois-Mouthon Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, INSERM UMR_S1138, 15 rue de l'école de médecine, Sorbonne Université, USPC, Université Paris Descartes, Université Paris Diderot, F-75006 Paris, France. Mahmoud Desoky Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Sultan bin Abdulalaziz city, Saudi Arabia. Anouk Dev Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Monash Health, Level 3, 246 Clayton Rd, Clayton, Victoria, Australia. Agostino Di Ciaula Clinica Medica "A. Murri", Department of Biomedical Sciences & Human Oncology, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, 70124 Bari, Italy. Moisés Diago Departamento de Patología Digestiva, Consorcio Hospital General Universitario de Valencia, Valencia, Spain. Ibrahima Diallo Department of Internal Medicine and Hepatogastroenterology, Hôpital Principal de Dakar, Dakar, Senegal. Luis Antonio Díaz Department of Gastroenterology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile. Melisa Dirchwolf Unidad de Higado y Trasplante Hepático Hospital Privado de Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina. Paola Dongiovanni General Medicine and Metabolic Diseases, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Pad. Granelli, 20122 Milan, Italy. Andrriy Dorofeyev Department of Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Shupic National Healthcare University of Ukraine Kyiv, Ukraine. Xiaoguang Dou Shengjing hospital, China Medical University, Shenyang, China. Mark W. Douglas Storr Liver Centre, Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Westmead Hospital and University of Sydney, Australia. Michael Doulberis Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Medical University Department, Kantonsspital Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland. Cecil K. Dovia Cedaku Foundation of Ghana, Ho, Ghana. Adam Doyle Department of Gastroenterology, Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Australia. Ivana Dragojević Hronos, Serbia and European Liver Patient's Association, Brussels, Belgium. Joost PH Drenth Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Xuefei Duan Department of General Medicine, Beijing Ditan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China. 10 Audrius Dulskas Institute of Clinical Medicine Faculty of Medicine Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania. Dan L Dumitrascu 2nd Department of Internal Medicine, "Iuliu Hatieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 400006, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Oliver Duncan Gastroenterology department, Fiona Stanley Hospital, Murdoch, Western Australia Vincent Dusabejambo Department of internal medicine, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Rwanda, Huye, Rwanda. Rev. Shem N.A. Dwawhi Shepherd Best Care Initiative Taraba SBCIT, Nigeria. Sho Eiketsu KCI Biotech. Inc, China. Doaa El Amrousy Pediatric department, Faculty of medicine, Tanta University, Egypt. Ahmed El Deeb Department of Hepatology, NTHMRI, Cairo, Egypt. Ghada El Deriny Pediatric department, Gastroenterology, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt. Hesham Salah El Din Hepatogastroenterology department, Qabbary Specialized Hospital, Alexandria, Egypt. Salwa El Kamshishy Department of Gastroenterology Pediatrics and nutrition, General hospital, Cairo, Egypt. Mohamed El Kassas Endemic Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Helwan University, Egypt. Maissa El Raziky Department of Endemic Medicine and Hepatology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt. Osama A Elagamy Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Kafrelsheikh University, Kafrelsheikh, Egypt. Wafaa Elakel Department of Endemic Medicine and Hepatology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt. Dina Elalfy Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Ain Shams University, Egypt. Hanaa Elaraby Pediatric hepatology department, National liver institute, Menofia University, Egypt. Heba ElAwady Department of Pediatrics, Fayoum University Hospitals, Fayoum University, Fayoum, Egypt. Reda Albadawy Department of Hepatology, Gastroenterology and Infectious Disease, Faculty of Medicine, Banha University, Banha, Egypt. Hanaa Hassan Eldash Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Fayoum University, Fayoum, Egypt. Manal S. Eldefrawy Pediatric department, Benha University, Egypt. Carol Lezama Elecharri Liver Unit, Hospital de Niños Ricardo Gutierrez, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Amel Elfaramawy Pediatric Department, Pediatric Gastroenterology, Ain Shams University. Mohammed Elfatih Orotta college of Medicine & Health Sciences, Eritrea. Mahmoud Elfiky Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt. Mohamed Elgamsy Pediatric Department, Tanta University, Egypt. Mohamed Elgendy Department of cardiology, New Jahra Hospital, Kuwait. Mohamed A El-Guindi Pediatric Hepatology, Gastroenterology and Nutrition Department, National Liver Institute, Menoufia University, Egypt. Nagi Elhussieny Department of Pediatrics, the General Organization for Teaching Hospitals and Institutes (GOTHI), Egypt. Ahmed Maher Eliwa Gastroenterology and Hepatology division, Internal Medicine Department, Al-Azhar Universty, Egypt. 11 Zeineb Elkabbany Department of Pediatrics Gastroenterology, Ain Shams University, Egypt. Hesham El-Khayat Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endemic Medicine, Theodore Research Institute, Cairo, Egypt. Nehal M. El-Koofy Paediatric Hepatology Unit, Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt. Alaa Elmetwalli Department of Clinical Trial Research Unit and Drug Discovery, Egyptian Liver Research Institute and Hospital (RLRIAH), Mansoura, Egypt. Amr Elrabat Department of Internal Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt. Fathiya El-Raey Department of Hepatogastroenterology and Infectious diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Damietta 34511, Cairo, Egypt. Fatma Elrashdy Department of Endemic Medicine and Hepatology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt. Medhat Elsahhar Egyptian Association for the Study of Liver and Gastrointestinal Disease (EASLGD), Police Medical Academy, Cairo, Egypt. Esraa M. Elsaid Egyptian Liver Research Institute and Hospital (ELRIAH), Sherbin, Mansoura, Egypt. Shimaa Elsayed Gastroenterology and Hepatology Department, Egyptian Liver Research Institute and Hospital (ELRIAH), Sherbin, Egypt. Hany Elsayed Department of Pediatrics, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt. Aly Elsayed Hepatology & GIT Department, AHF Center Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Amr M. Elsayed Gastroenterology and tropical medicine department, Minia University, Minia, Egypt. Hamdy Elsayed Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Alseef Hospital, Salmiya, Kuwait. Magdy El-Serafy Department of Endemic Medicine and Hepatology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt. Ahmed M Elsharkawy Liver Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Mindelsohn Way, Birmingham, UK. Reem Yehia Elsheemy Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endemic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Minia University, Cairo, Egypt. Eman Elsayed Elshemy Gastroenterology and Hepatology division, Internal Medicine Department, Al-Azhar University, Egypt. Sara Elsherbini Department of Endemic Medicine and Hepatology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt. Naglaa Eltoukhy Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases Department, Banha University, Egypt. Reda Elwakil The African Middle East Association of Gastroenterology (AMAGE); Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Tropical Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. Ola Emad Pediatric Hepatology, Gastroenterology, Faculty of Medicine, Beni-Suef University, Beni Suef, Egypt. Shaimaa Emad Pediatric Hepatology, National hepatology and Tropical Medicine Research Institute (NHTMRI), Egypt. Mohamed Embabi Pediatric Hepatology, Gastroenterology, NMC Specialty Hospital Abu Dhabi, UAE. Ilkay Ergenç Department of Gastroenterology, Marmara University, School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey. Tatiana Ermolova Northwestern state medical university n.a.I.I.Mechnicov, Internal Medicine Department, Russia. 12 Gamal Esmat Department of Endemic Medicine and Hepatology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt. Doaa M.Esmat Department of Hepatology, gastroenterology, and Tropical infectious diseases, faculty of medicine, Beni suef University, Egypt. Enrique Carrera Estupiñan Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Hospital Eugenio Espejo, Ecuador. Said Ettair Department of Pediatric Hepatology, Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Academic Children's Hospital, Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco. Tcaciuc Eugen Department of Gastroenterology, “Nicolae Testemitanu” State University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Republic of Moldova. Mohammed Ezz-Eldin Department of Tropical Medicine and Gastroenterology, Faculty of Medicine, Assuit University, Assuit, Egypt. Lidia Patricia Valdivieso Falcón Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hospital Nacional Docente Madre Niño San Bartolome, Peru. Yu-Chen Fan Department of Hepatology, Qilu Hospital, Shandong University, China. Samah Fandari Cardiometabolic and diabetes, Abbott Laboratories, Kuwait. Mahmoud Farag Department of Hepatogastroenterology and Infectious Diseases, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt. Taghreed Mohamed Farahat The Egyptian Family Medicine Association (EFMA); WONCA East Mediterranean; Menoufia University, Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Menoufia, Egypt. Eman M. Fares Hepato Gastroenterology Department, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt. Michael Fares Department of Gastroenterology pediatric, Elmonira general hospital, Cairo, Egypt. Eduardo Fassio Gastroenterology Department and Liver Unit, Hospital Alejandro Posadas, El Palomar, Argentina. Hayam Fathy Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut 71515, Egypt. Dina Fathy Tropical Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. Wael Fathy Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Beni-Suef University, Beni Suef, Egypt. Soheir Fayed Department of pediatric, Al-Azhar University, Egypt. Dan Feng Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Food, Nutrition and Health, Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, 510080, China. Gong Feng Xi'an Medical University, Xi'an, China. Miguel Fernández-Bermejo Digestive Department, Hospital Universitario de Caceres, Cáceres, Spain Cristina Targa Ferreira Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hospital da Criança Santo Antônio, Porto Allegre, Brazil. Javier Díaz Ferrer Gastroenterology Department, Hospital Nacional Edgardo Rebagliati Martins-Essalud, School of Medicine, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru. Alastair Forbes Institute of Clinical Medicine University of Tartu, Puusepa 8, Korpus L, Korrus 6, 50406, Tartu, Estonia. Rabab Fouad Endemic Medicine department, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt Hanan M. Fouad Department of Hepatology pediatrics, Helwan University, Egypt. Tove Frisch Riksföreningen Hepatit C, Månkarbo, Sweden. 13 Hideki Fujii Departments of Premier Preventive Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan; Department of Hepatology, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan. Shuhei Fukunaga Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Japan. Shinya Fukunishi Premier Departmental Research of Medicine, Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Japan. Hacer Fulya Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Department of Pediatrics, K›r›kkale University, Faculty of Medicine, Kırıkkale, Turkey Masato Furuhashi Department of Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolic Medicine, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Japan. Yasmine Gaber Endemic Medicine and Hepatology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt. Augusto Jose G. Galang Department of Internal Medicine, Angeles University Foundation Medical Center, Philippines. Jacqueline Cordova Gallardo Department of Hepatology, Service of Surgery and Obesity Clinic, General Hospital "Dr. Manuel Gea González", Mexico. Rocío Galloso Gastroenterology Department, Hospital San José, Callao, Peru. Mahmoud Gamal Endemic Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt. Reham Gamal Pediatric department, Hepatogastroenterology, Tamyia hospital, El-Fayoum, Egypt. Hadeel Gamal Hepatogastroenterology, Liver Transplantation Unit, Internal Medicine Department, Kasr Al-Aini Hospitals, Cairo University, Kasr Al-Aini Street, Cairo, Egypt. Jian Gan The First Clinical Medical College, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China. Anar Ganbold Gastroenterology Center, First Central Hospital of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar210648, Mongolia. Xin Gao Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Zhongshan Hospital and Fudan Institute for Metabolic Diseases, China. George Garas Medical School, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia; Department of Hepatology, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, Australia. Tony Garba Agency for the control of HIV and Hepatitis, Nigeria. Miren García-Cortes UGC de Aparato Digestivo, Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Victoria, Universidad de Málaga, 29010 Málaga, Spain. Carmelo García-Monzón Internal Medicine Department, Santa Cristina University Hospital, Madrid, Spain. Javier García-Samaniego Liver Unit, Hospital Universitario La Paz CIBERehd, IdiPAZ, Madrid, Spain. Amalia Gastaldelli Institute of Clinical Physiology, National Research Council-CNR, Pisa 56100, Italy. Manuel Gatica College of Physicians and Surgeons of Guatemala, Guatemalan Association of Gastroenterology Hepatology and Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, Guatemala City, Guatemala. Elizabeth Gatley Groote Schuur Hospital, South Africa. Tamar Gegeshidze Infectious Diseases, AIDS & Clinical Immunology Research Center, Tbilisi, Georgia. Bin Geng FuWai Hospital, State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beilishi Rd. 167, Xicheng District, Beijing 100037, China. 14 Hasmik Ghazinyan Department of Hepatology, National Centre of Infectious Diseases, Yerevan, Armenia. Salma Ghoneem Department of Hepatology, Military production specialized hospital, Cairo, Egypt. Luca Giacomelli Polistudium s.r.l., 20135 Milano, Italy. Gianluigi Giannelli National Institute of Gastroenterology "Saverio de Bellis," Research Hospital, Castellana Grotte, Bari, Italy. Edoardo G. Giannini Department of Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology Unit, University of Genova, IRCCS Policlinico San Martino, Genoa, Italy. Matthew Giefer Paediatrics Gastroenterology, Ochsner Hospital for Children, New Orleans, USA. Pere Ginès Liver Unit Hospital Clínic. Institut D'investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi I Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Centro de Investigación En Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas Y Digestivas (Ciberehd), Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. Marcos Girala Departamento de Gastroenterología. Hospital de Clínicas. Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Paraguay. Pablo J Giraudi Fondazione Italiana Fegato, Centro Studi Fegato, Area Science Park Basovizza Bldg. Q SS14 Km 163.5, Trieste, Italy. George Boon-Bee Goh Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore. Ahmed Ali Gomaa Department of Tropical Medicine and Gastroenterology, Faculty of Medicine, Fayoum University, Faiyum, Egypt. Benbingdi Gong Department of Cardiology, Taizhou People's Hospital, Taizhou, Zhejiang, China. Dina Hilda C. Gonzales De la Salle Medical and Health Sciences Institute College of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Gastroenterology, Philippines. Humberto C. Gonzalez Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI, USA; School of Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA. Maria Saraí Gonzalez-Huezo Gastroenterology Department, Centro Médico ISSEMYM, Toluca, Estado de México, Mexico. Isabel Graupera Liver Unit Hospital Clínic. Institut D'investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi I Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Centro de Investigación En Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas Y Digestivas (Ciberehd), Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. Ivica Grgurevic Department of gastroenterology, hepatology and clinical nutrition, University hospital Dubrava, University of Zagreb School of Medicine, Croatia. Henning Grønbæk Department of Hepatology & Gastroenterology, Aarhus University Hospital, and Clinical Institute, Aarhus University, Denmark, Xuelian Gu The First Hospitol of Lanzhou University, Infectious department, China. Lin Guan Gastroenterology Department, The First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China. Ibrahima Gueye Président Association Saafara Hépatites, Sénégal. Alice Nanelin Guingané Département d'Hépato-gastroentérologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Bogodogo, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Ozen Oz Gul Uludag University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Bursa, Turkey Cuma Bulent Gul University of Health Sciences, Bursa Faculty of Medicine, Department of Nephrology, Bursa, Turkey. Qing Guo Department of Infectious Diseases, Yangzhou University, China. 15 Pramendra Prasad Gupta WONCA South Asia; Department of General Practice and Emergency Medicine, B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal. Ahmet Gurakar Gastroenterolgy and Hepatology Department, Johns Hopkins School of medicine, USA. Juan Carlos Restrepo-Gutierrez Hepatology, Hospital Pablo Tobon Uribe, Medellin, Antioquia, Colombia. Ghada Habib Endemic Medicine and Hepato-gastroenterology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt. Azaa Hafez Faculty of Nursing, Minia University, Minia, Egypt. Emilia Hagman Division of Pediatrics, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden Eman Halawa Department of Paediatrics, Health education England, Northeast, United Kingdom Osama Hamdy Joslin Diabetes Centre, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts, USA. Abd Elkhalek Hamed Arabic Association for the Study of Diabetes and Metabolism, Cairo, Egypt. Department of Internal Medicine, Hepatology, and Diabetes, Egyptian Military Medical Academy, Egypt. Dina H. Hamed Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt. Saeed Hamid Department of Medicine, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan. Waseem Hamoudi Internal Medicine Department, Al-Bashir Hospital, Amman, Jordan. Yu Han Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China. James Haridy Department of Gastroenterology, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Australia. Hanan Haridy Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology Ibn Sina Hospital and colleage of medicine, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. David C H Harris Centre for Transplantation and Renal Research, Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Westmead Hospital and University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia. Michael Hart Pediatrics GI & Nutrition, VTC School of Medicine Roanoke, Virginia, USA. Fuad Hasan Department of Gastroenterology, Royal Hayat Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Kuwait. Almoutaz Hashim Internal Medicine department, University of Jeddah Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Israa Hassan Tropical Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. Ayman Hassan Egyptian Liver Research Institute and Hospital (ELRIAH), Sherbin, Mansoura, Egypt. Essam Ali Hassan Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and tropical medicine, Fayoum University, Egypt. Adel Ahmed Hassan Infectious and Endemic Disease Department, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt. Magda Shehata Hassan Department of Gastroenterology and Tropical Medicine ، Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Egypt. Fetouh Hassanin Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Misr International University, Cairo, Egypt. Alshymaa Hassnine Gastroenterology and tropical medicine department, Minia University, Minia, Egypt. John Willy Haukeland Department of Gastroenterology, Oslo University Hospital, Norway. Amr Ismael M. Hawal Department of Pediatrics, Amina Hospital Ajman, UAE. Jinfan He Shanxi Bethune hospital, Taiyuan 030032, Shanxi, China. Qiong He Wuxi Hisky Medical Technologies Co., Ltd, Beijing, China. 16 Yong He Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China. Fang-Ping He Department of Infectious Diseases, the Eighth Affiliated Hospital of Sun YatSen University, Shenzhen, China. Mona Hegazy Internal Medicine, Hepatology &gastroenterology division. Faculty of medicine, Cairo University, Egypt. Adham Hegazy Pediatric Department, Gastroenterology and Hepatology Unit, Ain Shams University, Egypt. Osama Henegil Pediatric Gastroenterology Department, Berket Elsaba Hospital, Ministry of Health Hospitals, Menoufia, Egypt. Nelia Hernández Clínica de Gastroenterología, Hospital de Clínicas, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de la República, Av. Italia s/n, ZIP: 11600, Montevideo, Uruguay. Manuel Hernández-Guerra Unidad de Hepatología, Servicio de Aparato Digestivo, Hospital Universitario de Canarias, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain. Fatima Higuera-de-la-Tijera Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Hospital General de México, Mexico City 06726, Mexico. Ibrahim Hindy Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endemic Medicine, Ain shams University hospitals, Egypt. Keisuke Hirota Division of Rehabilitation, Kurume University Hospital, Kurume, Japan. Lee Chi Ho Department of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Alexander Hodge Gastroenterology and Hepatology Unit, Monash Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Mohamed Hosny Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology Ibn Sina Hospital and colleage of medicine, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Xin Hou School of Medicine, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China. Jiao-Feng Huang Department of Hepatology, Hepatology Research Institute, The First Affiliated Hospital, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou 350005, Fujian Province, China. Yan Huang Deparment of Infectious Diseases, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University， Changsha, China. Zhifeng Huang School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wenzhou Medical University, China. Yuan Huang Hepatopancreatobiliary Center, Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Ang Huang Department of Hepatology, Fifth Medical Center of PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100039, China. Xiao-Ping Huang Department of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital of Suzhou University, Suzhou, China. Sheng Hui-ping Department of Infection, General Hospital of Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, China. Bela Hunyady Department of Gastroenterology, First Department of Medicine, Somogy County Kaposi Mór Teaching Hospital, Kaposvár and University of Pécs, Clinical Center, Pécs, Hungary. Mennatallah A. Hussein Department of Endemic Medicine and Hepatology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt. Osama Hussein Paediatric department, Gastroenterology division, El Nasr Specialised children Hospital. Shahinaz Mahmoud Hussien Paediatric department, Gastroenterology division, Alazhar faculty of medicine, Cairo, Egypt. Luis Ibáñez-Samaniego Liver Unit. Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Spain. Jamal Ibdah Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65212, USA. 17 Luqman Ibrahim Diabetes Care Unit, Regency Specialist Hospital, Johor Bahru, Malaysia. Miada Ibrahim Gastroenterology and Hepatology Department, Egyptian Liver Research Institute and Hospital (ELRIAH), Sherbin, Egypt. Ibrahim M. Ibrahim Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Cairo University, Egypt. María E. Icaza-Chávez División of Gastroenterogy and Hepatology, Chavez Hospital Faro del Mayab, México. Asociación Mexicana de Gastroenterología, México. Sahar Idelbi Pediatric Endocrinology, Children hospital, Syria. Ramazan Idilman Department of Gastroenterology, Ankara University Faculty of Medicine, Turkey. Mayumi Ikeda Department of nutrition, Kurume University Hospital, Kurume, Japan. Giuseppe Indolfi Department NEUROFARBA, University of Florence and Meyer Children's University Hospital, Florence, Italy. Federica Invernizzi Liver Transplant team at Liver Center IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital, Milan Italy. Iram Irshad Storr Liver Centre, Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Westmead Hospital and University of Sydney, NSW, Australia. Hasan M. Isa Pediatric Department, Salmaniya Medical Complex, Arabian Gulf University, Manama, Bahrain. Natacha Jreige Iskandar Gastroenterology department, Horacio Oduber Hospital, Oranjestad, Aruba. Abdulrahman Ismaiel 2nd Department of Internal Medicine, "Iuliu Hatieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Mariam Ismail Department of Endemic Medicine and Hepatology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt. Zulkifli Ismail Department of Paediatrics, KPJ Selangor Specialist Hospital, Malaysia. Faisal Ismail Faculty of Medical Technology, University of Tobruk, Tobruk, Libya. Hideki Iwamoto Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Japan. Kathryn Jack Hepatology department, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, UK. Rachael Jacob Department of Gastroenterology, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, Australia. Fuad Jafarov Gastroenterology department, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey. Wasim Jafri The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan. Helen Jahshan Department of Gastroenterology, Blacktown Mt Druitt Hospital, Blacktown, NSW, Australia. Prasun K Jalal Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA. Ligita Jancoriene Clinic of Infectious Diseases and Dermatovenerology, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Vilnius University Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania Martin Janicko 2nd Department of Internal medicine, Safarik University and Pasteur University hospital, Kosice, Slovakia. Hiruni Jayasena Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University, Rathmalana, Sri Lanka. Meryem Jefferies NSW Drug and Alcohol Clinical Research and Improvement Network, Sydney, Australia; Drug Health, Western Sydney Local Health District, Sydney, Australia. Vivekanand Jha Chair of Global Kidney Health, Imperil College, London, UK. George Institute for Global Health, UNSW, New Delhi, India; School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK; Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India. Fanpu Ji Department of Infectious Diseases, Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710004, China. 18 Yaqiu Ji Department of Gastroenterology, Shanxi Bethune Hospital, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China. Jidong Jia Liver Research Center, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, 95 Yong-an Road, Beijing, 100050, China. Changtao Jiang Center for Obesity and Metabolic Disease Research, Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Third Hospital, Peking University, Beijing, China. Ni Jiang Department of Infectious Diseases, The First Hospital of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, Gansu, China. Zong-zhe Jiang Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan, 646000, China. Xing Jin Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Fujian, China. Yi Jin Department of Pathology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China. Xu Jing Department of Endocrinology of Xinqiao Hospital, Army Medical University, Chongqing, China. Qian Jingyu Tianzhu People's Hospital, Guizhou, China. Maia Jinjolava Hepatology and Gastroenterology Department, Medical Center Mrcheveli, Tbilisi, Georgia. FX Himawan Haryanto Jong Faculty of Medicine, Widya Mandala Catholic University Surabaya, Indonesia Alina Jucov Department of Gastroenterology, State University of Medicine and Pharmacy"Nicolae Testimiteanu" Chișinău, Republic of Moldova. Ibecheole Julius Elohim Foundation, Nigeria. Mona Kaddah Department of Endemic Medicine and Hepatology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt. Yoshihiro Kamada Department of Advanced Metabolic Hepatology, Osaka University, Graduate School of Medicine, Japan. Abobakr Kamal Department of Endemic Medicine and Hepatology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt. Enas Mohamed Kamal Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endemic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Minia University, Cairo, Egypt. Ashraf Sayed Kamel Pediatric department, Pediatric Gastroenterology, Faculty of Medicine, Fayoum University, Faiyum, Egypt. Jia-Horng Kao Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Hepatitis Research Center, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taiwan. Maja Karin Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Clinical Hospital Mostar, Bijeli Brijeg bb, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Thomas Karlas Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine II, Leipzig University Medical Center, Leipzig, Germany. Mohammad Kashwaa Hepatology and Gastroenterology Unit, Internal Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt. Leolin Katsidzira Internal Medicine Unit, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe. Eda Kaya Section of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Hospital Knappschaftskrankenhaus Bochum, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany. M.Azzam Kayasseh Dr.Kayasseh Medical Clinic, Dubai, UAE. Bernadette Keenan Irish Coalition for people living with obesity (ICPO), Ireland. 19 Caglayan Keklikkiran Department of Gastroenterology, School of Medicine, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey. William Keml Alfred Health & Monash University, Australia. Deia K. Khalaf Department of Gastroenterology, Pediatrics-college of medicine, Al-Nahrain University, Iraq. Rofida Khalefa Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endemic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Minia University, Cairo, Egypt. Sherin Khamis Department of pediatrics Gastroenterology, Fayoum University, Egypt. Doaa Khater Department of endocrinology pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt. Hamed khattab National hepatology institute (NHTMRI), Cairo, Egypt. Anatoly Khavkin Department of Gastroenterology, Veltischev Institute of Pediatrics, Russian State Medical University, Russia. Olga Khlynova The Russian Academy of Sciences, Department of Hospital Therapy and Cardiology of Perm State medical university named after acad. E.A. Wagner, Russia. Nabil Khmis Department of Internal Medicine, Hepatology, Meoufia University, Egypt. Nazarii Kobyliak Endocrinology Department, Bogomolets National Medical University, Kyiv, Ukraine. Apostolos Koffas Department of Gastroenterology, University Hospital of Larissa, Greece. Kazuhiko Koike Department of Gastroenterology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. Kenneth Y. Y. Kok Pengiran Anak Puteri Rashidah Sa'adatul Bolkiah Institute of Health Sciences, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei Darussalam. Tomas Koller Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 5th Department of Medicine, Comenius University Faculty of Medicine, Slovakia. Narcisse Patrice Komas Pasteur Institute of Bangui, Bangui, Central African Republic. Nataliya V. Korochanskaya Gastroenterology Centre of the Region Clinic Hospital, Kuban State Medical, Krasnodar, Russia. Yannoula Koulla Liver Patients' Association Cyprus, Republic of Cyprus. Shunji Koya Division of Rehabilitation, Kurume University Hospital, Kurume, Japan. Colleen Kraft Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Children's Hospital Los Angeles USA. Bledar Kraja University Clinic of Gastrohepatology and Hepatology Service, University Hospital Center "Mother Teresa", Dibra Street 371, 1001, Tirana, Albania. Marcin Krawczyk Department of Medicine II, Saarland University Medical Center, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany, Laboratory of Metabolic Liver Diseases, Department of General, Transplant and Liver Surgery, Centre for Preclinical Research, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland. Mohammad Shafi Kuchay Division of Endocrionology and Diabetes, Medanta the Medicity Hospital, India. Anand V Kulkarni Department of Hepatology, AIG Hospitals, Hyderabad, India. Ashish Kumar Institute of Liver, Gastroenterology, & Pancreatico-Biliary Sciences, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, India. Manoj Kumar Department of Hepatology and Liver Transplantation, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, New Delhi, India. Sulaiman Lakoh Department of Medicine, College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences, University of Sierra Leone, Sierra Leone. Philip Lam Department of Medicine, Victoria Hospital, Quatre Bornes, Mauritius. Ling Lan Department of Gastroenterology, The People's Hospital of Zhengzhou University, China. 20 Naomi F Lange Department of Visceral Surgery and Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Switzerland. Kamran Bagheri Lankarani Health Policy Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran. Nicolas Lanthier Service d'Hépato-gastroentérologie, Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc, UCLouvain, Brussels, Belgium; Laboratory of Hepato-Gastroenterology, Institut de Recherche Expérimentale et Clinique, UCLouvain, Brussels, Belgium. Kateryna Lapshyna Department of internal medicine, Kharkiv national medical university, Ukraine. Sameh A. Lashen Department of Internal Medicine, Alexandria University, Egypt. Konang Nguieguia Justine Laure Medicine and Hepatogastroenterology Unit, Centre Hospitalier et Universitaire de Yopougon, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. Leonid Lazebnik Department of Outpatient Therapy, Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry n.a. A.I. Evdokimov, President of Gastroenterology Scientific Society of Russia. Didier Lebrec Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôpital Beaujon, Département Hospitalo-Universitaire UNITY, Service d'Hépatologie, Clichy, France. Samuel S. Lee Department of Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Canada. Way Seah Lee Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University Malaya, Malaysia. Yeong Yeh Lee School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kota Bharu, Kelantan, Malaysia. Diana Julie Leeming Nordic Bioscience Biomarkers and Research A/S, Herlev, Denmark. Nathalie Carvalho Leite Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology Section, Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. Roberto Leon Unidad de Hepatología, Gastroenterologia y Endoscopia Digestiva Instituto Médico La Floresta, Venezuela. Cosmas Rinaldi Adithya Lesmana Hepatobiliary Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Dr. Cipto Mangunkusumo National General Hospital, Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia. Junfeng Li The First Hospital of Lanzhou University, Department of Infectious Diseases, Lanzhou, People's Republic of China. Qiong Li The First Hospital of Lanzhou University, Department of Infectious Diseases, Lanzhou, People's Republic of China. Jun Li State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, china. Yang-Yang Li Department of Pathology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China. Yufang Li Department of Infectious Disease, General Hospital of Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan City, Ningxia 750004, China. Lei Li Department of Infectious Disease, The First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, China. Min Li Department of Infectious Disease, The First Affiliated Hospital of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730020, China. Yiling li Department of Gastroenterology, The First Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China. Huiqing Liang Hepatology Unit, Xiamen Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Xiamen, Fujian, China. Tang Lijuan Department of Gastroenterology, Taizhou People's Hospital, China. Seng Gee Lim Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, National University Health System, Singapore. 21 Lee-Ling Lim Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China; Asia Diabetes Foundation, Hong Kong SAR, China. Shumei Lin Department of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710061, China. Han-Chieh Lin Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan. Rita Lin Storr Liver Unit, Westmead Hospital, Australia. Rania Lithy Department of Endemic Medicine and Hepatology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt. Yaru Liu Department of endocrinology, Children's Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, China. Yuanyuan Liu Department of Infectious Diseases, Xi’an Central Hospital, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China. Xin Liu Department of Infectious Diseases, the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, China. Wen-Yue Liu Department of Endocrinology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China. Shourong Liu Department of Infectious Diseases, Hangzhou Xixi Hospital, Hangzhou 310023, China. Ken Liu AW Morrow Gastroenterology and Liver Centre, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Australia. Tian Liu Department of Gastroenterology, Tianjin Haihe Hospital, Tianjin, 300350, China. Amedeo Lonardo Department of Internal Medicine, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria, Ospedale Civile di Baggiovara, 1135 Via Giardini, 41126, Modena, Italy. Mariana Bravo López Pediatric endocrinology, Children's Hospital, Federico Gómez, Mexico. Eva López-Benages Liver Tranplant Unit, Hospital Clinic Barcelona, Spain. Patricio Lopez-Jaramillo Medical School, Masira Research Institute, Universidad de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia. Huimin Lu Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Taizhou People's Hospital, China. Lun Gen Lu Department of Gastroenterology, Shanghai General Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. Yan Lu Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, China. John Lubel Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Alfred Health and Monash University, Australia. Rashid Lui Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. Iulianna Lupasco Research Laboratory of Gastroenetrology, "Nicolae Testemitanu" State University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova. Elena Luzina Therapeutic Department of Postgraduate training, Chita State Medical Academy of the Ministry of Health of Russia, Chita, Russia. Xiao-Hui Lv Department of Gastroenterology, First Affiliated Hospital, China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China. Kate Lynch Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Australia. Hong-Lei Ma Department of General Practice, Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital (Affiliated People's Hospital, Hangzhou Medical College), Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. 22 Mariana Verdelho Machado Gastroenterology Department, Hospital de Vila Franca de Xira, Lisbon, Portugal. Nonso Maduka Bensther Development Foundation, International Drug Policy Consortium, Nigeria. Katerina Madzharova Department of Gastroenterology, Pulmed University Hospital, Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Russellini Magdaong Department of Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology, San Juan De Dios Hospital, Philippines. Sanjiv Mahadeva Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Malaysia. Amel Mahfouz Department of Gastroenterology, Faculty of medicine Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt. Nik Ritza Kosai Nik Mahmood Upper Gastrointestinal & Bariatric Surgeon, Head of Unit of Upper Gastrointestinal and Minimally Invasive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, The National University of Malaysia, Jalan Yaacob Latiff, Bandar Tun Razak, Postcode 56000, Selangor, Malaysia. Eman Mahmoud Egyptian Liver Research Institute and Hospital (ELRIAH), Sherbin, Mansoura, Egypt. Mohamed Mahrous Pediatric Hepatology, Gastroenterology, Roma Medical Center, Al Ain, UAE Rakhi Maiwall Department of Hepatology, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, D-1, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi, India. Ammar Majeed Department of Gastroenterology, Alfred Health, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, Australia. Avik Majumdar AW Morrow Gastroenterology and Liver Centre, Australian National Liver Transplant Unit, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Loey Mak Department of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong SAR, China. Madiha M Maklouf Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endemic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Minia University, Egypt. Reza Malekzadeh Digestive Diseases Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Claudia Mandato Department of Pediatrics, Santobono-Pausilipon Children's Hospital, Naples, Italy. Alessandra Mangia Liver Unit, IRCCS "Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza", San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy. Jake Mann Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. Hala H. Mansour Pediatric Hepatology department, Cairo University, Egypt. Abdellah Mansouri Department of Hepatology, AP-HP, Hôpital Beaujon, Clichy, France; Centre de recherche sur l'inflammation, Université de Paris, Inserm, CNRS, Paris, France. Alessandro Mantovani Department of Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, University of Verona, Verona, Italy. Flor Maramag Department of gastroenterology, St Luke’s Medical Center, Philippines. Jun qian Mao Shaanxi Provincial Cancer Hospital, Shanxi, China. Giulio Marchesini Department of Medical & Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna Hospital of Bologna Sant'Orsola-Malpighi Polyclinic, Bologna, Italy. Claude Marcus Division of Pediatrics, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Rui António Rocha Tato Marinho Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Hospital S. Maria, Medical School of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal 23 Maria L Martinez-Chantar Liver Disease Laboratory, Center for Cooperative Research in Biosciences (CIC bioGUNE, Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Bizkaia Technology Park, Building 801A, 48160 Derio, and CIBER de Enfermedades Hepaticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd), Spain. Antonieta A. Soares Martins Universidade de Cabo Verde, Cape Verde. Rana Marwan Department of Endemic Medicine and Hepatology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt. Karen Frances Mason Department of Internal Medicine, Ilocos Training and Medical Center, Philippines. Ghadeer Masoud Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases Department, Banha University, Egypt. Mohamed Naguib Massoud Pediatric Hepatology, Gastroenterology, Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Egypt. Maria Amalia Matamoros Liver Transplant Center, Center CCSS-Hospital México, San Jose, Costa Rica Rosa Martín Mateos Servicio de Gastroenterología y Hepatología, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Universidad de Alcalá, Instituto Ramón y Cajal de Investigación Sanitaria (IRYCIS), Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Spain. Asmaa Mawed Gastroenterology and Hepatology Department, Egyptian Liver Research Institute and Hospital (ELRIAH), Sherbin, Egypt. Jean Claude Mbanya Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon. Charles Mbendi Department of Gastroenterology, University Hospital, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Lone McColaugh Chairman of Leverforeningen, Odense C, Denmark. Duncan McLeod Institute of Clinical Pathology and Medical Research, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia. Juan Francisco Rivera Medina Gastroenterology Unit in INSN (instituto Nacional de Salud del Niño) and Department of Pediatrics UNMSM (Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos), Peru. Ahmed Megahed Mansoura University Children Hospital, Pediatric Gastroenterology and Hepatology Unit, Mansoura, Egypt. Mai Mehrez Department of Hepatology, NTHMRI, Cairo, Egypt. Iqbal Memon Sir Syed College of Medical Sciences for Girls, Karachi, Pakistan. Shahin Merat Digestive Diseases Research Center, Digestive Disease Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Shariati Hospital, Tehran 1411713135, Iran. Randy Mercado Section of Gastroenterology, Cardinal Santos Medical Center, Philippines. Ahmed Mesbah Egyptian Liver Research Institute and Hospital (ELRIAH), Sherbin, Mansoura, Egypt. Taoufik Meskini Department of Pediatric Hepatology, Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Academic Children's Hospital, Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco. Mayada Metwally Storr Liver Centre, Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Westmead Hospital and University of Sydney, NSW, Australia. Rasha Metwaly Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Alexandria University, Egypt. Lei Miao Departments of Gastroenterology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China. Eileen Micah Department of Medicine, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana. Luca Miele Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS, 00168 Roma, Italy. Institute of Internal Medicine, Catholic University of Sacred Hearth, 00168 Rome, Italy. 24 Vladimir Milivojevic Clinic for gastroenterology and hepatology, Clinical center of Serbia School of Medicine Belgrade University, Serbia. Tamara Milovanovic Clinic for Gastroenterohepatology, University Clinical Center, Serbia. Yvonne L. Mina Department of Internal medicine, Cardinal Santos Medical Center, Philippines Milan Mishkovik Hepar Centar, Bitola, Macedonia. Amal Mishriki Department of Medical Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt. Tim Mitchell Department of Hepatology, Royal Perth Hospital, Australia. Alshaimaa Mohamed Hepatogastroenterology and infectious diseases, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt. Mona Mohamed Department of Hepatology, NTHMRI, Cairo, Egypt. Sofain Mohamed Department of Endemic Medicine and Hepatology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt. Shady Mohammed Department of Hepatology, Sharm el sheikh international hospital, Egypt. Ahmed Mohammed Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Beni-Suef University, Beni Suef, Egypt. Viswanathan Mohan Madras Diabetes Research Foundation and Dr Mohan's Diabetes Specialties Centre, Chennai, India. Sara Mohie Egyptian Liver Research Institute and Hospital (ELRIAH), Sherbin, Mansoura, Egypt. Aalaa Mokhtar Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Beni-Suef University, Beni Suef, Egypt. Reham Moniem Department of Endemic Medicine and Hepatology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt. Mabel Segura Montilla Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hospital Plaza de la Salud, Dominican Republic. Jose Antonio Orozco Morales Department of Paediatric Endocrinology, Hospital Infantil de Mexico Federico Gomez, Mexico. María Sánchez Morata Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Spain. Jose Maria Moreno-Planas Servicio de Digestivo, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Albacete, Albacete, Spain. Silvia Morise Liver Unit, Hospital Nacional Profesor Alejandro Posadas, El Palomar, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Sherif Mosaad Pediatrics Gastroenterology, Amina hospital, UAE. Mohamed Moselhy Department of Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Alexandria University, Egypt. Alaa Mohamed Mostafa Gastroenterology and Hepatology Unit, Department of Tropical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine - Minia University, Minia, Egypt. Ebraheem Mostafa Theodore Bilharz Research institute, Cairo, Egypt. Nezha Mouane Department of Pediatric Hepatology, Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Academic Children's Hospital, Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco. Nasser Mousa Department of Tropical medicine, Mansoura University, Egypt. Hamdy Mahfouz Moustafa Department of Hepatology, Gastroenterology and Infectious Diseases, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt Abeer Msherif Pediatric Gastroenterology and Hepatology Department, Alexandria University, Egypt. Kate Muller Hepatology and Transplant Medicine Unit, Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. Christopher Munoz Yellow Warriors Society Philippines (YWSP) Manila, Philippines. 25 Ana Beatriz Muñoz-Urribarri Pediatrics Gastroenterology department, Hospital Nacional Edgardo Rebagliati Martins, Lima Perú. Omar Alfaro Murillo Association of Specialists in Gastroenterology and Digestive Endoscopy of Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica. Feisul Idzwan Mustapha NCD Section, Disease Control Division, Ministry of Health Malaysia, Putrajaya, Wilayah Persekutuan, Malaysia. Emir Muzurović Department of Internal Medicine, Endocrinology Section, Clinical Center of Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro; Faculty of Medicine, University of Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro. Yehia Nabil Gilead Sciences, UAE. Shaymaa Nafady Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Beni-Suef University, Beni Suef, Egypt. Ayu Nagamatsu Division of Nutrition, Kurume University Hospital, Kurume, Japan. Atsushi Nakajima Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan. Dan Nakano Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, 67 Asahi-machi, Kurume, Japan. Yuemin Nan Department of Traditional and Western Medical Hepatology, The Third Hospital of Hebei Medical University, China. Fabio Nascimbeni Metabolic Medicine Unit, OCB Hospital, AOU Modena, Italy. Mirella S. Naseef Department of Endemic Medicine and Hepatology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt. Nagwa Nashat The Egyptian Family Medicine Association (EFMA); WONCA East Mediterranean; Menoufia University, Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Menoufia, Egypt. Taran Natalia University of Medicine"Nicolae Testemitanu", Gastroenterology research laboratory, Moldova. Francesco Negro Divisions of Gastroenterology and Hepatology and of Clinical Pathology, University Hospital, Genève, Switzerland. Alexander V. Nersesov Department of Gastroenterology, S.D. Asfendiyarov Kazakh National Medical University, Kazakhstan. Manuela Neuman The Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Temerity Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Banting Institute, 100 College St., Toronto, ON M5G 1L5, Canada. Masolwa Ng'wanasayi Department of Gastroenterology, Aga Khan Hospital, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. Yan Ni National Clinical Research Center for Child Health, Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310052, China. Amanda Nicoll Department of Gastroenterology, Eastern Health, 3 West, Building B, Box Hill Hospital, 8 Arnold Street, Box Hill, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Eastern Health Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Eastern Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Takashi Niizeki Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Kurume University, School of Medicine, Kurume, Japan. Dafina Nikolova University Clinic of Gastroenterohepatology, Faculty of Medicine, University Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia. Wang Ningning Gastroenterology Department, the First Hospital of China Medical University, No.155 North Nanjing Street, Heping District, Shenyang 110001, Liaoning, China. Madunil Niriella Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. 26 K.A Nogoibaeva Department of General and Clinical Epidemiology of the Kyrgyz State Medical Academy, Kyrgyzstan Rozeena Nordien Department of Hepatology, University of Cape Town, South Africa. Catherine O Sullivan Irish Coalition for people living with obesity (ICPO), Ireland. James O’Beirne Department of Hepatology, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sunshine Coast 4556, Australia. Solomon Obekpa Advocacy for the prevention of hepatitis in Nigeria (APHIN), Benue State, Nigeria. Ponsiano Ocama Department of Medicine, Makerere University of College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda. Missiani Ochwoto Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya. Michael Promise Ogolodom Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria. Olusegun Ojo Gastroenterology and Liver Pathology Unit, Department of Morbid Anatomy, Obafemi Awolowo University and Teaching Hospital Complex, Ile Ife, Nigeria. Nana Okrostsvaridze Hepatology and Gastroenterology Department, Medical Center Mrcheveli, Tbilisi, Georgia. Claudia P.Oliveira Department of Gastroenterology, University of Sao Paulo School of Medicine, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Raul Contreras Omaña Hepatology division, Centro de Estudio e Investigación en Enfermedades Hepáticas y Toxicológicas (CEIHET), Pachuca 42184, Mexico. Omneya M. Omar Department of Paediatrics, Gastroenterology, Endocrinology and Nutrition, Faculty of Medicine Alexandria University, Egypt. Hanaa Omar Department of Hepatogastroenterology and Infectious Diseases, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt. Mabroka Omar Misurata Medical Center, Libya. Salma Omran Department of Endemic Medicine and Hepatology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt. 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Ying Peng Department of Gastroenterology, The First Affiliated Hospital (Southwest Hospital) of Third Military Medical University (Army Medical University), Chongqing, China. Rahul Pengoria Department of Pediatrics, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221005, India. Martina Pérez-Guasch Liver Unit, Hospital Clínic, University of Barcelona, IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain. José Luis Pérez Hepatology clinic, hospital general de Mexico, Mexico. Norma Marlene Pérez Gastroenterologia, Hepatologia Hospital General Plaza de la Salud, Republica Dominicana. Marcello Persico Internal Medicine and Hepatology Unit, Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry, "Scuola Medica Salernitana", University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy. Mário Guimarães Pessoa Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of São Paulo School of Medicine, Brazil. Salvatore Petta Section of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, PROMISE, University of Palermo, Italy. 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Xingshun Qi Department of Gastroenterology, General Hospital of Northern Theater Command, China Zibing Qian Department of Endocrinology, Gansu Provincial Hospital, Lanzhou 730000, Gansu Province, China. Zhao Qiang Department of Gastroenterology, Shanxi Bethune Hospital, China. Zengpei Qiao Department of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Yuying Children's Hospital, No. 109 Western Xueyuan Road, Wenzhou, 325000, China. Liang Qiao Storr Liver Centre, Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Westmead Hospital and University of Sydney, Westmead 2145, NSW, Australia. 28 Alberto Queiroz Farias Gastroenterology and Hepatology Department of Gastroenterology, University of Sao Paulo School of Medicine, Brazil. Atoosa Rabiee Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Washington DC Veterans Affairs Medical Center Washington DC. Manal Radwan Department of Internal medicine, Ahmad Maher teaching hospital, Cairo, Egypt. 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Khawaja Qamaruddin Sediqi Medicine and Hepatogastroenterology Unit, Kabul, Afghanistan. Sameh Seif Hepatology department, National tropical medicine and Hepatology institute, Cairo, Egypt. Nady Semida Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endemic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Minia University, Cairo, Egypt. Ebubekir Şenateş Department of Gastroenterology, Medeniyet University School of Medicine, İstanbul, Turkey. 31 Elena Daniela Serban Department of Gastroenterology, 2nd Clinic of Pediatrics, "Iuliu Hatieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Emergency Clinical Hospital for Children, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Lawrence Serfaty Hepatogastroenterology Service, Hôpital Hautepierre, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, France. INSERM UMR_S938, Université Paris-Sorbonne, France. Wai-Kay Seto Department of Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. Ikram Sghaier University of Tunis El Manar, Biology department, Tunish, Tunisia. Min Sha Taizhou People's Hospital, Taizhou, Zhejiang, China. Hamada M. Shabaan Department of paediatrics Gastroenterology, Cairo University, Egypt. Lobna Shalaby Pediatric Department, National Cancer Institute, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt. Inass Shaltout Arabic Association for the Study of Diabetes and Metabolism, Cairo, Egypt; Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt. Ala I.Sharara Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon. Vishal Sharma Department of Gastroenterology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India. Isaac Thom Shawa University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi. Ahmed Shawkat Department of Tropical Medicine and Gastroenterology, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt. Nehal Shawky Medical Division, Dasman Diabetes Institute, Dasman, Kuwait. Osama Shehata Department of Internal Medicine, Alexandria University, Egypt. Sinead Sheils AW Morrow Gastroenterology and Liver Centre, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and University of Sydney, Australia. Abate Bane Shewaye Department of Internal Medicine, Addis Ababa University, College of Health Sciences, Ethiopia. Guojun Shi Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, The Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China Junping Shi The Department of Hepatology, the Affiliated Hospital of Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. Shigeo Shimose Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Kurume University, School of Medicine, Kurume, Japan. Tomotake Shirono Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Kurume University, School of Medicine, Kurume, Japan. Lan Shou Department of Endocrinology, The Affiliated Hospital of Hangzhou Normal University. Ananta Shrestha Alka Hospital Pvt Ltd, Kathmandu, Nepal. Guanghou Shui University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. William Sievert Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Monash Health, Melbourne, Australia. Sólveig Sigurðardóttir The European Coalition for People Living with Obesity (EASO ECPO), Iceland. Mostafa Mohamed Sira Pediatric Hepatology Development, National Liver Institute, Menoufia University, Egypt. Riyadh Siradj Department of Internal medicine, Aggaro General Hospital, Ethiopia Cecilia Sison Department of Gastroenterology, University of the Philippines, Philippines Linda Smyth Irish Coalition for people living with obesity (ICPO), Ireland. 32 Reham Soliman Tropical Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Port Said University, Port Said, Egypt. Jose D. Sollano Department of Gastroenterology, University of Santo Tomas, Manila Philippines. Roger Sombie Département d'Hépato-gastroentérologie, CHU Yalgado Ouédraogo, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Mark Sonderup Division of Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town 7925, South Africa. Siddharth Sood Gastroenterology & Hepatology, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Australia. German Soriano Department of Gastroenterology, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, CIBERehd, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain. Catherine A M Stedman Department of Medicine, University of Otago Christchurch and Department of Gastroenterology Christchurch Hospital, New Zealand. Oksana Stefanyuk National Medical Research Center for Preventive Medicine" of the Ministry of Health of Russia; Scientific Society of Gastroenterologists of Russia, Moscow, Russia. Davor Štimac Department of Gastroenterology, Clinical Hospital Centre Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia. Simone Strasser AW Morrow Gastroenterology and Liver Centre, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and University of Sydney, Australia. Pavel Strnad Medical Clinic III, Gastroenterology, Metabolic Diseases and Intensive Care, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Health Care Provider of the European Reference Network on Rare Liver Disorders (ERN RARE LIVER), Aachen, Germany. Katherine Stuart Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Princess Alexandra hospital, Australia. Wen Su Department of Pathology, Shenzhen University Health Science Center, Shenzhen, China. Minghua Su Department of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning 530021, China. Yoshio Sumida Division of Hepatology and Pancreatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Aichi Medical University, 1-1 Yazakokarimata, Nagakute, Aichi 480-1195, Japan. Shuji Sumie Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Japan. Dan-Qin Sun Department of Nephrology, the Affiliated Wuxi No.2 People's Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi, China. Affiliated Wuxi Clinical College of Nantong University, Wuxi, China. Jing Sun Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, the first affiliated hospital, China. Hiroyuki Suzuki Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Kurume University, School of Medicine, Kurume, Japan. Gianluca Svegliati-Baroni Liver Disease and Transplant Unit, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy Mohamed Osman Swar Pediatrics Hepatology, Gastroenterology, Tropical Diseases Teaching Hospital, Sudan. S. Taharboucht Internal medicine department, CHU de Douera, University of Blida 1, Algiers, Algeria. Zenab Taher Egyptian Liver Research Institute and Hospital (ELRIAH), Sherbin, Mansoura, Egypt. Saori Takamura Department of Dermatology, Saitama Medical Center, Saitama Medical University, Saitama, Japan. 33 Lin Tan Department of Liver Disease, Fuyang 2nd People's Hospital, Fuyang, Anhui 236015, China. Soek-Siam Tan Department of Hepatology, Selayang Hospital, Batu Caves, Malaysia. Tawesak Tanwandee Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Thailand. Sara Tarek Pediatric gastroenterology and endoscopy, Cairo university children's hospital, Egypt. Ghelimici Tatiana Department of Gastroenterology, State University of Medicine and Pharmacy of the Republic of Moldova, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova Moldova. Federica Tavaglione Clinical Medicine and Hepatology Unit, Department of Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Campus Bio-Medico University, Rome, Italy. Gina Y. Tecson Internal Medicine department, Cardinal Santos Medical Center, Philippines. Hoi-Poh Tee KPJ Pahang Specialist Centre, Pahang, Malaysia. Rolf Teschke Department of Internal Medicine II, Klinikum Hanau, Germany Mostafa Tharwat Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endemic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt. Vo Duy Thong Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy. Department of Gastroenterology, Cho Ray Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Mark Thursz Liver Unit/Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London W2 1NY, United Kingdom Tulari Tine GAMMUN Centre for Care and Development Nigeria, Nigeria. Claudio Tiribelli Liver Center, Italian Liver Foundation, Trieste, Italy. Ieva Tolmane Hepatology Department, REUH, Latvian Center of Infectious Diseases, Latvija. Jing Tong Department of Gastroenterology, The First Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China. Marco Tongo Department of Internal Medicine, Cardinal Santos Medical Center, Philippines. Mamdouh Torkie Pediatric Gastroenterology department, Suez Canal Authority, Egypt. Aldo Torre Unidad Metabólica, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Ciudad de México, Vasco de Quiroga, 15, 14080, México. Esther A Torres University of Puerto Rico, School of Medicine, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Meri Trajkovska University Clinical Centre Mother Teresa, Clinic for Gasteroenterohepatology, Faculty of Medicine, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Skopje R. North Macedonia. Sombat Treeprasertsuk Gastroenterology and Hepatology Division, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University and King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand. Tsubasa Tsutsumi Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Japan. Thomas Tu Storr Liver Centre, Westmead Institute for Medical Research; HepBCommunity.org, Australia. Josep A. Tur Research group on Community Nutrition & Oxidative Stress, University of the Balearic Islands, Spain. Dilara Turan Ankara University School of Medicine, Department of Gastroenterology, Ankara, Turkey. Svetlana Turcan Department of Gastroenterology, “Nicolae Testemitanu” State University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Republic of Moldova. Svetlana Turkina Department of Internal Medicine, Volgograd State Medical University, Russia. 34 Engin Tutar Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Marmara University School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey. Christian Tzeuton Faculty of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences of Douala, University of Douala, Douala, Cameroon. Rose Ugiagbe Department of Medicine, University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Benin, Nigeria. Ahmet Uygun Department of Gastroenterology, Gulhane School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey. Michele Vacca Interdisciplinary Department of Medicine, Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro", Bari, Italy. Pietro Vajro Section of Pediatrics, Dipartimento di Medicina, Chirurgia e Odontoiatria 'Scuola Medica Salernitana', Baronissi (Salerno), Italy. David van der Poorten Storr Liver Centre, Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Westmead Hospital and University of Sydney, NSW, Australia. Laurens A. Van Kleef Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Erasmus MC university medical center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Eliza Vashakidze Infectious Diseases, AIDS & Clinical Immunology Research Center, Tbilisi, Georgia Carlos Moctezuma Velazquez Department of Gastroenterology, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición "Salvador Zubirán", Mexico City, Mexico. Mirtha Infante Velazquez Gastroenterology Institute, Medical University of Havana, Cuba. Sandro Vento Faculty of Medicine, University of Puthisastra, Cambodia. Veronique Verhoeven Department of FAMPOP (Family Medicine and Population Health), University of Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium. Umberto Vespasiani-Gentilucci Clinical Medicine and Hepatology Unit, Department of Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Campus Bio-Medico University, Rome, Italy. Shireene Ratna Vethakkan Division of Endocrinology & Diabetes, Faculty of Medicine, University Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 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Weiguo Xu Department of Infectious Disease, the First Hospital of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China. Jing-Hang Xu Department of Infectious Diseases, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing 100034, China. Keshu Xu Department of Gastroenterology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China. Yumin Xu Department of Infectious Diseases, Department of Hospital Infection Management, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China. Shi-Hao Xu The First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, China. Meng Xu Nanfang Hospital, First Clinical Medical College, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China. Aimin Xu Department of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, SAR, Hong Kong, China. 36 Chengfu Xu Department of Gastroenterology, the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, China. Hongmei Yan Department of Endocrinology, Zhongshan hospital, Fudan University, China. Jingyi Yang Department of Infectious Diseases, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China. Rui-Xu Yang Center for Fatty Liver, Department of Gastroenterology, Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Key Lab of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Shanghai, China. Yating Yang Department of Infectious Diseases, the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, China. Qinhe Yang School of traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan University, Guangdong, China. Naibin Yang MAFLD Research Center, Department of Hepatology, Ningbo First Hospital, Ningbo Hospital of Zhejiang University, Ningbo, China. Jia Yao Department of Gastroenterology, Shanxi Bethune Hospital, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China. Justine Yara President of SOS Hépatites Burkina, Burkina Faso. Serkan Yaraş Department of Gastroenterology, Mersin University Faculty of Medicine, Mersin, Turkey. Nimet Yılmaz Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sanko, Gaziantep, Turkey. Ramy Younes Cardio-Metabolism and Respiratory- Boehringer Ingelheim International, Germany. Huda Younes Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Beni-Suef University, Beni Suef, Egypt. Sona Young NorthShore University HealthSystem, Pediatric GI, USA. Farah Youssef Pediatric GI, Alexandria University hospitals, Egypt. Yanyan Yu Department of Infectious Diseases, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing 100034, China. Ming-Lung Yu Hepatobiliary section, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University Taiwan. Jing Yuan Capital Institute of Pediatrics, Beijing, China. Zhang Yue Taizhou People's Hospital, Taizhou, Zhejiang, China. Man-Fung Yuen Department of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. Wang Yun Department of Gastroenterology, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China. Nonka Yurukova Department of Gastroenterology, University Hospital “Lozenetz”, Sofia, Bulgaria; Faculty of Medicine Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Sofia, Bulgaria. Serag Zakaria Department of Endemic Medicine and Hepatology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt. Samy Zaky Department of Hepatogastroenterology and Infectious Diseases, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt. Maia Zaldastanishvili Hepatology and Gastroenterology Department, Medical Center Mrcheveli, Tbilisi, Georgia. Rodrigo Zapata Clinica Alemana, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile. Nazanin Zare Department of Gastroenterology, New Jahra Hospital, Kuwait. Enver Zerem Department of Medical Sciences, the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Nema Zeriban Department of paediatrics Hepatology, Damanhour teaching hospital, Egypt. Xu Zeshuai Center for Fatty Liver, Department of Gastroenterology, Xinhua Hospital Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Medicine, Shanghai 200092, China. 37 Huijie Zhang Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, China. Xuemei Zhang Department of Gastroenterology, The First Hospital of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China. Yupei Zhang School of traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan University, Guangdong, China. Wen-Hua Zhang Wuwei Tumor Hospital, Gansu Province, China. Yon-ping Zhang Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region people's Hospital Urumqi China. Xuchen Zhang Department of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Yuexin Zhang Center of Liver diseases and Infectious Diseases, The First Hospital Affiliated to Xinjiang Medical University, Urumchi, China. Zhan-qing Zhang Department of hepatobiliary medicine, Shanghai public health clinical center, China. Jingmin Zhao Department of Pathology and Hepatology, The Fifth Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, China. Rong-Rong Zhao Department of Gastroenterology, The First Hospital of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China. Hongwei Zhao Department of Radiology, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China. Chao Zheng The Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China. Yijie Zheng Medical Scientific Affairs, Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Diagnostics Division, Shanghai, China Ruidan Zheng Diagnosis and Treatment Center for Liver Diseases, Zhengxing Hospital, Zhangzhou, Fujian Province 363000, China. Tian-Lei Zheng The Affiliated Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, China. Kenneth Zheng MAFLD Research Center, Department of Hepatology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, China. Xi Qiao Zhou Diabetes department, The Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, 210029, China. Yongjian Zhou Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Guangzhou Digestive Diseases Center, Guangzhou First People’s Hospital, China. Yu-Jie Zhou Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Key Laboratory of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Ministry of Health, Shanghai Institute of Digestive Disease, Renji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. Hong Zhou School of Life Science, Anhui Medical University, China. Ling Zhou Hepatology Unit, Department of Infectious Diseases, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China. Yongning Zhou Department of Gastroenterology, the First Hospital of Lanzhou University, China. Long dong Zhu Hepatology Unit, Department of Infectious Diseases, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China. Yong Fen Zhu Department of Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China Yueyong Zhu Department of Hepatology, Hepatology Research Institute, the First Affiliated Hospital, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, Fujian, China, 350001. Pei-Wu Zhu Department of Laboratory Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China. Ebtesam Ziada Department of Hepatology, National insurance institute, Egypt. 38 David Ziring Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA. Li Ziyi Department of Gastroenterology, the First Hospital of Lanzhou University, China. Shanshan Zou Department of Hepatobiliary Medicine, Shanghai Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital, Shanghai, China. Zhengsheng Zou Department of Hepatology, Fifth Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, China. Huaibin Zou Artificial Liver Center, Beijing YouAn Hospital, Capital Medical University, China. Roberto Zuart Ruiz Department of Pediatric endocrinology, Hospital Infantil de México. la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico. 39