Roberto J. Firpi-morell MD, MS

Dr. Roberto J. Firpi is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the University of Florida’s Division of Gastroenterology where he serves as the Director of Hepatology, Medical Director of Liver Tranplant and Program Director of the Transplant Hepatology Fellowship for the Section of Hepatobiliary Diseases and Liver Transplantation. He received his medical degree from the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine in 1994, completed a residency in internal medicine at the University of Puerto Rico where he also served as Chief Resident, and obtained fellowship training in gastroenterology and hepatology at the University of Florida under an NIH T32 training grant.
Dr Firpi also completed additional training in hepatology and liver transplantation at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA, where he received the AASLD Advanced Hepatology Fellowship Award in 2001. Dr. Firpi’s area of clinical expertise is hepatology with an emphasis on the management of liver transplantation, viral hepatitis and immunosuppression after liver transplantation.