Department Of Digestive & Liver Diseases
Investigator
Julia Wattacheril, MD, MPH
jjw2151@cumc.columbia.edu
Dr. Wattacheril's clinical specialties include all aspects of transplant hepatology, general hepatology, and gastroenterology with emphasis on metabolic liver disease and obesity. She specializes in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease as well as all forms of hepatitis, chronic liver disease, and liver cancer in addition to liver transplantation. Her research interests include hepatic steatosis, insulin resistance, gut hormones and metabolic liver disease in adults. Her current research concentrates on the relationship between proteins and lipids that differentiate steatosis from steatohepatitis using an integrated omics approach.