Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
Dr. Matthew Cave discusses Hepatitis C on KET's "Kentucky Health."
Welcome to the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition. Our mission is to provide high quality clinical care, superior education for trainees and postgraduate physicians, to conduct research with scientific rigor, to publish our findings in reputable medical journals and present at scientific meetings, and participate in the academic goals of the Department of Medicine. We offer excellence in medical care for the spectrum of gastrointestinal and liver diseases.
We are committed to improving the understanding of disease states from bench to bedside. Our internationally-renowned faculty maintain a commitment to teaching students, residents, and fellows toward careers in academic and private medicine.
We continually strive for excellence and to maintain our standing as a highly successful and reputable educational institution. We invite you to participate in our future.
2019 Emerging Therapies for PBC, NASH, ESLD, and HCC
Saturday, February 9th 2019
University of Louisville, Clinical & Translational Research Building
Featuring talks by Craig McClain, MD, Matthew Cave, MD, Ashutosh Barve, MD, PhD, and Barbara Cave, APRN, FNP-BC.
View the flyer here for more information.
Latest News
Dr. McClave gives Medicine Grand Rounds on “How Best to Feed the Hospitalized Patient: Go With Your Gut Instincts!”- The inaugural Richard N. Redinger, M.D. Lectureship was presented at Medicine Grand Rounds on December 13, 2018. (12/13/18)
- The first PSA video, sponsored by the Kentucky Rural Health Association and AbbVie, has been released. Watch this entry in the Did You Know? series here. (12/4/18)
- Research!Louisville award winners have been announced, including some from the GI Division (10/12/18)
- Banrida Wahlang talks about her research on the impact of pollution on women's health on UofL Today with Mark Hebert (10/1/18)
- McClain, UofL Alcohol Research Center determined to uncover effects of alcohol (6/18/18)
- Shirish Barve recognized as Distinguished University Scholar (5/9/18)
- Kirpich leads award-winning poster group at Experimental Biology meetings (4/24/18)
- UofL Hospital opens new center to treat hepatitis C (11/29/17)
- Cave garners $4 million NIEHS-NIH grant to continue innovative liver research (9/15/17)
- Dryden, Mehta, Ahmed featured as cover story for August 2017 edition of Innate Immunity (8/14/17)
- McClain discusses the effects of bourbon on gut bacteria on WFPL (6/23/17)
Dr. Hridgandh Donde, post-doctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Shirish Barve, was awarded Postdoctoral Best Presentation Award--First Place--for his poster, “Tributyrin supplementation attenuates alcoholic induced dysbiosis and liver injury”, at the recent Experimental Biology 2017 meetings in Chicago.
- Tuo Shao, graduate student of Dr. Wenke Feng, has received an NIAAA-funded student travel award to the upcoming 40th annual Research Society on Alcoholism meetings in June in Denver, CO. (8/5/17)
- Smart part of Louisville man's celebration of liver transplant anniversary on WDRB (11/27/16)
- Krueger discusses eosinophilic esophagitis on WLKY's "KentuckyOne Health Break" (10/24/16)
- Abell receives $1.5 million NIH Gastroparesis Clinical Research Consortium grant (9/25/16)
- McClave co-directs Nestlé Protein Summit (9/24/16)
- Cave presents at NIEHS Endocrine Disrupters symposium (9/18/16)
- Omer, Parajuli initiate VA Cooperative Study on colon polyps (9/16/16)
- McClain, UofL researchers take lead role in exploring liver disease with $11.5 million NIH COBRE grant (9/14/16)
- McClain discusses the new Alcohol Research Center on "UofL Today with Mark Hebert" (8/16/16)
- Shirish Barve receives $1.5 million NIH grant to study the gut microbiome and neuroinflammation (8/15/16)
- McClain, UofL earn $8 million NIH grant to open Alcohol Research Center | VIDEO (7/18/16)
- Kirpich receives $1.5 million NIH grant to study the role of dietary fats in alcoholic liver disease (7/15/16)
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McClain, Kirpich feature UofL's Alcohol Research Center
Abell discusses motility on KET's "Kentucky Health"
UofL Hospital opens new center to treat hepatitis C
Dr. Ashutosh Barve will serve as medical director of UofL Hospital's new hepatitis C clinic.
Cave earns $4 million NIEHS grant
Dr. Matthew Cave is awarded $4.01 million over eight years by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, a part of the National Institutes of Health, to explore the long-term effects of environmental chemicals on the liver.
McClain, UofL open NIH-designated Alcohol Research Center
Dr. Craig McClain and his team received a nearly $8 million grant from the NIH that designates them as an NIAAA Alcohol Research Center, one of only 20 in the nation.