Location:
Berg Family Foundation Seminar Room, Level 6, Wallace Wurth Building, UNSW Sydney
Cost
Free
A catered lunch will be provided at 12:30pm. Please RSVP to rjoseph@kirby.unsw.edu.au by COB Thursday 1st June.
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Brian J. McMahon MD Clinical Hepatologist and the Scientific Program and Clinical Director of the Liver Disease and Hepatitis Program at the Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage, Alaska |
About your speaker
Brian McMahon directs a patient care program for over 1200 Alaska Natives with chronic hepatitis B and 2400 with chronic hepatitis C. He conducts research on long-term protection studies on hepatitis A and B vaccines as well as on the outcome and management of chronic hepatitis B and C and autoimmune liver diseases.
He is the co-author of the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease (AASLD) US Practice Guideline on Chronic Hepatitis B with 4 updates from 2001 to 2009 and on the methodology committee for the 2016 AASLD Guidelines. He also was co-chair of the WHO hepatitis B Guidelines Committee in 2015.
He was a member of the Institute of Medicine Committee that published recommendations for Hepatitis and Liver Cancer in 2010. He has more than 130 peer-reviewed original scientific articles and 60 book chapters/review articles/editorials. Alan is also a guest researcher at the Arctic Investigations Program of the Centers for Disease Control in Anchorage. He is a fellow in the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and a Master in the American College of Physicians.