Nancy S. Reau, MD (Program Chair)

Nancy S. Reau, MD, is the Richard B. Capps Chair of Hepatology and Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition at Rush Medical College; and Associate Director of Organ Transplantation and Chief of the Section of Hepatology at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois. She received her medical degree from The Ohio State University College of Medicine in Columbus, where she completed a residency and fellowship in gastroenterology/hepatology. She then completed a second fellowship in advanced transplant hepatology at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. Her primary research interests focus on viral hepatitis—from both a drug development and a clinical perspective—liver transplantation, and complications of chronic liver disease.

Dr. Reau is a fellow of the American Gastroenterological Association and the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD). Additionally, she is the current editor in chief of Clinical Liver Disease (CLD) and was an author of the AASLD/IDSA hepatitis C guidance document. She was the committee chair of the AASLD public policy committee and a member of the AASLD practice guideline committee for four years.

Dr. Reau has authored or coauthored more than 100 peer-reviewed articles in journals such as Hepatology, Hepatitis Research and Treatment, and CLD. Dr. Reau has been an invited lecturer at numerous presentations focused on viral hepatitis, fatty liver disease, cirrhosis, and liver transplantation. She is co-chair of the National American Liver Foundation Medical Advisory Committee and sits on multiple advisory boards. She is currently a member of the steering committee for the hepatitis C special interest group for the AASLD and a member of the American College of Gastroenterology training committee.