We’re excited to introduce Dr. Souvik Sarkar, MD, PhD. as our Principal Investigator and Medical Director of Research. Dr. Sarkar is a board-certified gastroenterologist and hepatologist with an interest in new therapeutics and clinical trials for patients with Non-Alcoholic Fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH).
Dr. Sarkar joins us from the University of California Davis where he developed and led a robust non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) clinical and research program. While there, he advanced a collaborative effort of clinicians, biomedical engineers, radiologist and pathologist to develop non-invasive and total-body imaging modalities applicable to NAFLD. He also served on the American Liver Foundation Northern California chapter’s medical advisory board and the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) membership and mentorship sub-committee.
- Gastroenterology Fellowship: Yale University
- Hepatology Fellowship: Liver Diseases Branch, National Institutes of Health
- Internal Medicine Residency: Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center
- Cell & Structural Biology PhD: Albert Einstein College of Medicine