Dr. Jessica M. Ferrell is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at Northeast Ohio Medical University in Rootstown, Ohio, USA. She earned her M.S. from The University of Akron and her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Kent State University. She joined NEOMED as a postdoc in 2011, then as a Research Assistant Professor in 2015 and a tenure-track Assistant Professor in 2022. Her long-term research goals are to study bile acid physiology and signaling within the context of alcohol-associated and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD). Currently, her research focuses on how liver disease affects biliary metabolism and how dietary and/or circadian disruptions to the hepatobiliary system contribute to the pathogenesis of alcohol-associated liver disease and MASLD.