Faculty

Meet the faculty of the University of Louisville Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition.

 

Leadership

Expertise


Chief, Academic and Clinical Affairs; Therapeutic Endoscopy; Gastroenterology; Complementary & Alternative Medicine


Chief, Research Affairs; Alcohol Associated Liver Disease; Environmental Live Disease; Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD); Nutrition



Faculty

Expertise


Gastrointestinal Motility; Gastroparesis; Endoscopic Device Development


Hepatocellular Carcinoma; Hepatitis C


Environmental Liver Disease; Hepatology; Liver Transplantation; Nutrition 


Inflammatory Bowel Disease; Endoscopic Device Development

 


Transplant Hepatology; Alcohol Associated Liver Disease


Advanced Endoscopy; ERCP; EUS; ESD; POEM; G-POEM; Third Space Endoscopy; Bariatrics; Endoscopic Sleeve; Advanced Resection


Hepatology; Liver Transplantation


Acute & Chronic Hepatitis; Cirrhosis; Liver Transplantation


Endoscopic Ultrasound; Critical Care Nutrition; Nutrition Education


Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS); Pancreatic Disorders; Enteral Access; Gastroenterology


Therapeutic Endoscopy; General Gastroenterology; Director, Fellowship Training Program


Motility; GERD; Gastroenterology


Gastroenterology


Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease and Alcohol Use Disorder, Mitochondrial Bioenergetics and Metabolism, Liver Transplant, Porphyria, MASH, Hepatorenal Syndrome


Gastrointestinal Motility; General Gastroenterology


Clinical Trials; Chronic Viral Hepatitis (B&C); Liver Transplantation; Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD)


Inflammatory Bowel Disease; Gastroenterology


Research Specialists

Research Interests


Alcohol and Immune Function; Epigenetics and Immune Function, HIV


Epigenetics, HIV and Liver Disease


Andrea Reyes Vega, M.D.

Clinical Trials in Aging, Alcohol and HIV


Fructose and Fatty Liver; Spinal Cord Injury and Liver Disease; Nuclear Hormones and Liver Disease


Novel Human Alcohol Mechanistic Paradigm; Treatment Assessment of AUD; Gut-Brain Axis; Organ Injury (AALD); AUD-Viral Comorbidity


Environmental Toxicology; Endocrine Disruption; Environmental Liver Disease; Gut-Liver Interactions; Sex Differences


Oxidative Stress and Redox Signaling; Environmental Toxins and Liver Injury; Alcoholic and Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease