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Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Inova Fairfax Medical Campus, President of Inova Medicine
Inova Health System
Zobair M Younossi is the Professor and Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Inova Fairfax Medical Campus as well as President of Inova Medicine, Inova Health System. Falls Church, Virginia, USA. Dr. Younossi earned his medical degree from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry (Alpha Omega Alpha award 1989) in Rochester, NY, USA. He then completed his residency in internal medicine with a fellowship in gastroenterology and hepatology at Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation in La Jolla, California, USA, while earning his master of public health degree with multiple honors from San Diego State University School of Public Health, San Diego, California, USA. He served as Staff Hepatologist and Senior Researcher at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, before establishing the Canter for Liver Diseases at Inova Fairfax Hospital, which is now renowned for research related to outcomes research in liver disease and clinical, health services and translational research in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). He served as Vice President and Chairman of Research for Inova Health System (2010-2022) and is the current President and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Chronic Liver Disease Foundation (2018-Present) and the Board of Inova Health System Foundation (2011-Present). He is also the Chairman of the Global NASH Council and associated Global Liver and Global NASH Registries. Dr. Younossi specializes in hepatology has authored over 725 articles, 3 books, 6 journal supplements, over 25 book chapters and over 1045 abstracts presented at the international scientific meetings and has an H-index of 107. He is highly sought-after speaker and has provided over 490 faculty lectures in national and international meetings. Dr. Younossi has also served as the co-editor of Liver International, Associate Editor of J of Hepatology and on the editorial board of a number of important medical journals. He has represented the American Association of Liver Disease and American Gastroenterological Association at different congressional meetings.