Professor Imam WAKED (MD, FRCP, FAASLD) is Professor of Medicine and Hepatology and was a former Dean of the National Liver Institute (NLI) in Egypt. Dr. Waked graduated from the Cairo University School of Medicine, obtained a Doctoral degree from Ain Shams University in Cairo, and trained in the liver unit of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He is a Fellow of the American Association of the Study of Liver Disease and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in London. Dr. Waked has more than 140 peer-reviewed publications in international journals. He is a board member of the Egyptian National Committee for Control of Viral Hepatitis, which oversees the National Hepatitis C Screening and Treatment Program. His research interests include epidemiology and management of viral hepatitis, hepatocellular carcinoma, and steatotic liver disease.