Learn about common misconceptions and the pathway that you might experience to investigate and evaluate your liver's health with your health care team. Our host, Jeff McIntyre, is joined by Dr. Julia Wattacheril, MASLD Director at Columbia NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and expert clinician and researcher, to zoom out and illuminate the big picture of liver health as well as the process and techniques that you might encounter.

With as many as one in three people in the world experiencing liver disease (especially metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease, known as MASLD and colloquially, fatty liver disease), this knowledge is extremely valuable.

Learn more about MASLD and help raise awareness through GLI's Global Fatty Liver Day, on June 12, 2025.

With the technical tools to eliminate viral hepatitis C available, focus must now be directed on garnering the political will to fund elimination efforts and deploying a harm reduction approach that can meaningfully impact affected populations by meeting them where they are and preventing damage to liver health and well-being before it happens.

In this month's episode of Is Your Liver Healthy?, guest host Gina Bartes, Vice President at Global Liver Institute, is joined by Dr. Beth Meyerson, director of the Harm Reduction Research Lab and Beverly Benson McCord Endowed Chair of Nursing at the University of Arizona, and Dr. Richard Manch, Chief of Hepatology at Arizona Liver Health.

To view your state's Report Card for Medicaid coverage of hepatitis C treatment, please visit https://stateofhepc.org/ (US residents).

Why are organ donation and transplantation so important to people with liver disease? Hear from a pediatric transplant recipient and her transplant surgeon on the process, the challenges, and the importance of organ donation to community well-being!

This month's guests:

• Sophie Hansen, 2x Liver Transplant Recipient
• Dr. Manuel Rodriguez-Davalos, Transplant Hepatologist & President of the Society of Pediatric Liver Transplantation (SPLIT)