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	Associate Professor of Medicine

Talal, Andrew Henry

(646) 962-4800

(212) 746-7977

Andrew Talal, M.D., M.P.H., is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Associate Attending Physician. He is a physician-scientist in the Center for the Study of Hepatitis C whose research interests are translational research on the pathogenesis of hepatitis C virus infection. In particular, his research focuses on the identification of determinants of histological progression of liver disease and biomarkers of treatment outcome with pegylated interferon and ribavirin. His clinical interest is the treatment of viral hepatitis among underserved populations including HCV/HIV co-infected patients. To that end, he founded and continues to direct the Liver Clinic of the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology. He also created and continues to direct the Center?s database as well as its serum and tissue repository that contains samples on >1500 patients with viral hepatitis.

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	The Center for the Study of Hepatitis C
	The Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology

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Clinical Expertise

Hepatitis

Hepatitis C/HIV Coinfection

Liver Disease

Education

M.D., University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, 1990

M.P.H., University of North Carolina, 1996