Elizabeth Clarice Verna MD

Dr. Elizabeth Verna is the Frank Cardile Associate Professor of Medicine in the Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation and Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases at Columbia University, where she practices as a transplant hepatologist. Dr. Verna has an active clinical research program in end-stage liver disease and liver transplantation and is the Director of Clinical Research for the Columbia UniversityTransplant Clinical Research Center.

Dr. Verna is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation and Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases of Columbia University. Dr. Verna has an active clinical practice involving all forms of chronic liver disease as well as decompensated cirrhosis and liver transplantation.

She has a significant clinical research focus, including NIH funding to study the impact of the intestinal microbiome on liver disease and liver transplantation as well as participation in multiple NIH-funded multicenter and multidisciplinary studies. In addition, she has significant expertise in clinical trials and is the Director of Clinical Research for the Columbia University Transplant Clinical Research Center, a center that supports transplant-related investigators across departments and Divisions at Columbia with has over 100 studies ongoing. Finally, Dr. Verna is active in national and international societies, including recently being elected to the Board of Directors for the American Society of Transplantation.