New Board of Editors for GI & Hepatology News
Lawrence R. Kosinski, MD, MBA, AGAF, FACG
Dr. Kosinski has been in the practice of gastroenterology since 1984. He received his MD from Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine in 1978 and earned his MBA from Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management in 1998. He is currently one of the managing partners of the Illinois Gastroenterology Group (IGG), the largest gastroenterology practice in Illinois.
In addition to his medical practice, Dr. Kosinski is the Clinical Private Practice Councilor for the American Gastroenterological Association and serves on its Governing Board. Locally, he is a member of the Advocate Sherman Hospital Board of Directors, Elgin, Ill.
In January 2014, Dr. Kosinski started SonarMD, a technology company formed to bring the success of Project Sonar to a national presence. He serves as its president and chief medical officer.
Sonia S. Kupfer, MD
Dr. Kupfer is an adult gastroenterologist with clinical and research interests in the genetics of gastrointestinal diseases. She is an assistant professor in the section of gastroenterology and serves as director of the Gastrointestinal Cancer Risk and Prevention Clinic at the University of Chicago. She is also a member of the University of Chicago Celiac Disease Center. She graduated from Yale University and completed her medical training including chief residency and gastroenterology fellowship at the University of Chicago. She received an F32 individual training grant and an NCI K08 career development award to study colorectal cancer genetics in African Americans. She is site primary investigator on a number of National Institutes of Health–sponsored clinical trials in colorectal cancer chemoprevention and screening. She served as codirector of two national clinical cancer genetics conferences and is a core faculty member in the City of Hope cancer genetics educational program. Dr. Kupfer is active on several AGA committees and is president-elect of the Collaborative Group of the Americas on Inherited Colorectal Cancer. She has mentored numerous medical students, residents, and fellows and teaches in the medical school.
Wajahat Mehal, MD, DPhil
Dr. Mehal is a hepatologist and director of the Yale Weight Loss Program at Yale University, New Haven, Conn. He obtained his medical training and DPhil at the University of Oxford, and completed his residency, chief residency, and Howard Hughes postdoctoral fellowship at Yale University. He has an active research group working in the area of sterile liver inflammation which covers alcoholic and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis. His clinical training is in transplant hepatology, obesity medicine, and endobariatrics. His laboratory training is in immunobiology and liver fibrosis. He has published widely in areas of inflammation and liver disease.
