John Moore Vierling MD, FACP, FAASLD, AGAF

John Moore Vierling, MD, FACP, FAASLD, AGAF, is Professor of Medicine and Surgery and Chief of Hepatology and Director of Baylor Liver Health at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. He also serves as Director of Advanced Liver Therapies (a clinical research unit) and formerly served as Program Director of the Hepatology and Liver Transplantation Fellowship. He graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Biology with Great Distinction and received his M.D. degree from Stanford University School of Medicine. He was a Clinical Associate in the Liver Unit at NIH prior to completing a Gastroenterology Fellowship at UC, San Francisco.

He was the founding Medical Director of the Liver Transplantation programs at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and at Cedars-Sinai/UCLA. His clinical interests include autoimmune and alloimmune liver diseases, liver transplantation, acute liver failure, viral hepatitis, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, Wilson's disease, and drug-induced liver injury (DILI). His translational research interest is immunologic mechanisms of hepatobiliary injury. He has authored over 290 manuscripts and chapters. He is co-editor of Liver Immunology: Principles and Practice, now in its 3rd edition. He has served on the Editorial Boards of Hepatology, Liver Transplantation, and Gastroenterology.