Congrats! This is so well deserved. I owe so much to Dr. Liver — he represents the gold standard for impactful hepatology research and mentorship. Time to celebrate! 🎉

A fantastic grand round presentation WashingtonDCVAMC by #MelissaKaltenbach on #NAFLD #livertwitter We are so excited to have her join our group and bring new/increased care access to our patients Marina Serper, MD, MS Nadim Mahmud

📑 Prevalence of mental illness is high in veterans w #cirrhosis: 🔵 Mental illness is an independent risk factor for all-cause mortality  🔵 BUT, regular outpatient mental health care may ⬇️ mortality risk!! #LiverTwitter #OpenAccess journals.lww.com/hepcomm/Fullte…

I am truly honored and humbled to serve as the next Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology @UCSDGI at UC San Diego Health Sciences where I trained as a GI fellow! Grateful to the entire team UC San Diego Health Sciences Patty Maysent Christopher A. Longhurst, MD UC San Diego School of Medicine Jeanna Vazquez (she/her) AASLD American Gastroenterological Association (AGA)

New manuscript in Liver Transplantation Journal (LTxJournal) Prehabilitation Intervention to Maximize Early Recovery in Liver Transplantation (PRIMER). bit.ly/3XvMczx

Increasing focus on patient reported outcomes (PROs) in #cardiology got me curious about landscape of PROs in #cvHCM #cvGenetics 🧬🫀 🙏🏽to Chip Lavie & Milind Desai MD MBA for including our work in their special HCM issue of Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases bit.ly/HCM_PROs

Homelessness is a huge public health challenge, particularly among those with liver disease This important paper in AJG - The American Journal of Gastroenterology shows that ◦ Homelessness is common and on the rise in US vets ◦ Vets with cirrhosis + homelessness have increased mortality journals.lww.com/ajg/fulltext/9…

Patients with #cirrhosis often need surgery. By now you know to assess risk with vocalpenn.com Today you will learn from Bachir Ghandour what happens when the patient has a preop visit with their hepatologist #TLM23 Marina Serper, MD, MS Nadim Mahmud

👏 way to go @marlask! What an insightful and important talk on albumin use disparities in SBP in the VOCAL cohort 🚨 race/ethnicity and regional disparities exist 🚨 hepatology and nephrology consultants increase albumin use University of Penn IM Residency Program @PennGIHep Marina Serper, MD, MS Nadim Mahmud

In people with cirrhosis, the main risk factor for HCC, long-term blood glucose control in diabetes is associated with lower HCC rates. See our work out now in Hepatology Communications journals.lww.com/hepcomm/fullte… Nadim Mahmud Marina Serper, MD, MS Binu John David Kaplan Yale Digestive Diseases @PennGIHep

📑 Evaluating the predictive performance of the elderly patient calculator #TIPS score in a North American cohort 🔹Overall ExPeCT score had highest discrimination for post-TIPS ☠️    🔹ExPeCT scores were suboptimally calibrated in the cohort  #LiverX journals.lww.com/hepcomm/fullte…

A recently published research letter 📄 discusses the experience and 36-week outcomes of patients with symptomatic obstructive hypertrophic #cardiomyopathy. spr.ly/6013bqY8v ✏️ Nosheen Reza, MD Alex de Feria Nadim Mahmud Anjali Owens et al.

1/ Excited to share our work HEPATOLOGY Journal examining the epidemiology and outcomes of patients with MetALD undergoing the transplant process. Using United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) registry linked to Penn Transplant Institute data, we developed an algorithm to identify MetALD and found: journals.lww.com/hep/abstract/9…

What is the impact of ONLY dietary and physical exercise on #MASLD? A fantastic study from Veterans Affairs AJG - The American Journal of Gastroenterology: 🔑 No weight loss after 5 years 🔑 ⬆️ weight compared to no engagement Any more hints that 💊 is here to stay? #LiverTwitter journals.lww.com/ajg/abstract/9…

Host Roslyn Mannon is joined by AJT Executive Guest Editor Nadim Mahmud (University of Pennsylvania) and AJT Editorial Fellow Tina Marinelli (Royal Prince Alfred Hospital) podbean.com/pu/pbblog-k6fc…

📑 HCC is associated with #diabetes and longitudinal blood glucose control‼️ 🔴 Inadequate blood glucose control associated with ⬆️ risk of #HCC 🔑 Long-term glucose control should be considered in #cirrhosis care #LiverTwitter journals.lww.com/hepcomm/fullte…

Now out in CGH Pre-operative collaboration sets patients with #cirrhosis up for success sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Congratulations to Bachir Ghandour and 🧠Nadim Mahmud 🧠 from @PennGIHep

What's the role of ACE-Is and ARBs in cirrhosis? New study from the VHA: ◦ ACE-I/ARB associated with⬇️mortality ◦ Reduction driven primarily by non-liver/non-CV related mortality ◦ ACE-I/ARB associated with⬇️CV-related mortality in CP-A journals.lww.com/ajg/abstract/9…

LT for ALF & ACLF. Now ⁦American Journal of Transplantation⁩ ⁦Nadim Mahmud⁩ ⁦Thierry Gustot⁩ ⁦Salvatore Piano⁩ ⁦Josh Levitsky⁩ ⁦SandyFeng⁩ ⁦⁦Pratima Sharma, MD⁩ ⁦AARC_APASL⁩ ⁦⁦CLEAREDConsortium⁩ ⁦Eur. Fdn. for the Study of Chronic Liver Failure⁩ #livertwitter amjtransplant.org/article/S1600-…