The People-First Liver Charter
Nat Med
.
2025 Jun 5.
doi: 10.1038/s41591-025-03759-8.
Online ahead of print.
Authors
Jeffrey V Lazarus
1
2
3
,
Dana Ivancovsky Wajcman
4
,
Silvana Pannain
5
,
Paul N Brennan
6
,
Melina I Manolas
7
,
Peter Jepsen
8
9
,
Carla Treloar
10
,
Anish K Arora
11
,
Philippa C Matthews
12
13
14
,
Camila A Picchio
4
,
Trenton M White
15
4
,
Jason Grebely
16
,
Juan Vaz
17
18
,
Hannes Hagström
17
19
,
Kenneth H Rabin
15
,
Scott Isaacs
20
,
Rogério T Ribeiro
21
,
Michael Roden
22
23
24
,
Michael Betel
25
,
José Willemse
26
,
Luis Antonio Díaz
27
28
29
,
Alina M Allen
30
,
Naim Alkhouri
31
,
Jörn M Schattenberg
32
33
,
Dídac Mauricio
34
35
,
Mary E Rinella
36
,
Elisa Pose
37
38
39
,
Emmanuel A Tsochatzis
40
,
Michael Ninburg
41
42
,
Kenneth Cusi
43
,
William Alazawi
44
,
Ajay Duseja
45
,
Gema Frühbeck
46
47
,
Holly Lofton
48
,
Priya Jaisinghani
49
,
Fasiha Kanwal
50
51
52
,
Gamal Shiha
53
54
,
Shira Zelber-Sagi
55
56
,
Larry Holden
57
,
Marcela Villota-Rivas
4
Affiliations
1
City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy (CUNY SPH), New York, NY, USA. jeffrey.lazarus@sph.cuny.edu.
2
Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Barcelona, Spain. jeffrey.lazarus@sph.cuny.edu.
3
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Barcelona (UB), Barcelona, Spain. jeffrey.lazarus@sph.cuny.edu.
4
Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Barcelona, Spain.
5
Section of Adult and Pediatric Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
6
Division of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK.
7
Division of Endocrinology, Montefiore-Einstein Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
8
Department of Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark.
9
Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark.
10
Centre for Social Research in Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
11
Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
12
The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK.
13
Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, London, UK.
14
Department of Infectious Diseases, University College London Hospital, London, UK.
15
City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy (CUNY SPH), New York, NY, USA.
16
The Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
17
Department of Medicine, Huddinge, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
18
School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
19
Division of Hepatology, Department of Upper GI Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
20
Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA.
21
Department of Research and Innovation, APDP-Diabetes Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal.
22
Department of Endocrinology and Diabetology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University, University Hospital, Düsseldorf, Germany.
23
Institute for Clinical Diabetology, German Diabetes Center, Leibniz Center for Diabetes Research at Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany.
24
German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Partner Düsseldorf, Neuherberg, Germany.
25
Fatty Liver Alliance, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
26
Dutch Liver Patients Association, Hoogland, the Netherlands.
27
MASLD Research Center, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA.
28
Departamento de Gastroenterología, Escuela de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
29
Observatorio Multicéntrico de Enfermedades Gastrointestinales, OMEGA, Santiago, Chile.
30
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
31
Steatotic Liver Disease Program, Arizona Liver Health, Phoenix, AZ, USA.
32
Department of Internal Medicine II, Saarland University Medical Centre, Homburg, Germany.
33
Faculty of Medicine, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany.
34
Department of Endocrinology & Nutrition, CIBERDEM, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain.
35
Faculty of Medicine, University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia, Vic, Spain.
36
Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
37
Liver Unit, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
38
Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, Barcelona, Spain.
39
Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBEReHD), Barcelona, Spain.
40
UCL Institute for Liver and Digestive Health, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK.
41
Hepatitis Education Project, Seattle, WA, USA.
42
World Hepatitis Alliance, London, UK.
43
Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
44
Barts Liver Centre, Blizard Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.
45
Department of Hepatology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.
46
Department of Endocrinology and Nutrition, Clínica Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.
47
Metabolic Research Laboratory, CIBEROBN, ISCIII, IdiSNA, Clínica Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.
48
Department of Surgery, Bariatric Division, Department of Internal Medicine, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
49
Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
50
Section of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
51
VA Health Services Research and Development Service, Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness, and Safety, Houston, TX, USA.
52
Michael E DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, TX, USA.
53
European Liver Patients' Association (ELPA), Brussels, Belgium.
54
Egyptian Liver Research Institute and Hospital (ELRIAH), Mansoura, Egypt.
55
School of Public Health, Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.
56
Department of Gastroenterology, Tel Aviv Medical Centre, Tel Aviv, Israel.
57
Global Liver Institute, Washington, DC, USA.
PMID:
40473951
DOI:
10.1038/s41591-025-03759-8
No abstract available