ASTRA 2025

Jacob George

Key Note Speaker, Westmead Hospital

Jacob George is the Robert W. Storr Professor of Hepatic Medicine at the Storr Liver Centre, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research, University of Sydney and Head of the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Westmead Hospital. He undertakes basic and clinical research on MAFLD, liver cancer, hepatitis C, and hepatic fibrosis. He was an Associate Editor for the Journal of Hepatology (to September 2023) and is a current senior Editor for Seminars in Liver Disease (since 2022) and Journal of Hepatology Reports (from Oct 2023). He is President-Elect of the Asian Pacific Association for the Study of Liver, is on the executive of the International Association for the study of Liver (IASL) and was a past board member of the Gastroenterological Society of Australia and Chair of the Liver Faculty of the Gastroenterological Society of Australia. He has published extensively.