Biography

Steven-Huy Han received his undergraduate degree in biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley and his M.D. degree from Albany Medical College in New York. Following residency in Internal Medicine, Dr. Han completed a clinical fellowship in hepatology at the University of Southern California under the mentorship of Dr. Telfer B. Reynolds and Dr. Allan G. Redeker and then completed additional fellowships in gastroenterology and transplant hepatology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Since then, Dr. Han has remained at UCLA, where he is now Professor of Medicine and Surgery in the Division of Digestive Diseases and the Division of Liver and Pancreas Transplantation. Dr. Han plays an active role in the clinical training of medical students, medical residents, and subspecialty fellows and is the Program Director of the Advanced Transplant Hepatology Fellowship at UCLA. Most recently, Dr. Han was named the Philip L. Palumbo Endowed Chair in Clinical Hepatology. Dr. Han is the Director of the Hepatology Clinical Research Center and the Director of the UCLA Asian Liver Center. His research interests have focused on the treatment of chronic viral hepatitis B and C, the prevention of recurrent viral hepatitis after liver transplantation, and the prevention and treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma. He is the Principal Investigator of several National Institute of Health (NIH) and National Cancer Institute (NCI) grants. Dr. Han has published many articles in the area of viral hepatitis, liver transplantation, and liver cancer and is an active speaker, lecturing on these subjects both nationally and internationally.

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