Robert G. Gish MD, FAASLD, AGAF, FAST

Robert G. Gish, MD, is the principal at Robert G. Gish Consultants LLC, a medical consulting company for liver and liver transplant programs, diagnostics, and therapeutics companies that operate in the liver disease and liver health space.

He was the Medical Director at the University of California, San Diego Health Systems from 2010 to 2013 in the Center for Hepatobiliary Disease and Abdominal Transplantation and Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCSD during this same tenure. From 2014 to 2019, Dr. Gish served at Stanford University with major roles in outreach programs. He is currently a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and Reno, and Professor of Medicine at Loma Linda University. He serves as an Adjunct Professor of Pharmacy at Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at UCSD. In addition, he is also the Medical Director of the Hepatitis B Foundation in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.      

Dr. Gish received his medical degree from the University of Kansas Medical School in 1980 after completing an undergraduate program in Pharmaceutical Sciences. He completed a 3-year Residency in Internal Medicine at UCSD and a fellowship in Gastroenterology at UCLA, during which time he was awarded the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Physician Scientist Award.

Dr. Gish has had and continues to have an active research program in viral hepatitis. He has published more than 600 original articles, abstracts, and book chapters, and more than 120 peer-reviewed publications. Dr. Gish is also actively involved in numerous professional societies, including the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases since 1984 and the American Society of Transplantation since 1995. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians as well as 10+ other national and international organizations.

Dr. Gish’s participation in various San Francisco and San Diego Hep B Free campaign activities has led to the screening of over 6,000 people for viral hepatitis. Dr. Gish also has a major interest in Vietnam and the Philippines and co-authored a Vietnamese public health policy for liver health.