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Nancy Reau, MD, FAASLD, AGAF Associate Director of Solid Organ Transplantation Section Chief Hepatology Rush University Medical Center Chicago, IL Nancy Reau, MD, is currently associate director of solid organ transplantation and section chief of hepatology at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois. She received her bachelor of arts degree at Oberlin College in Oberlin Ohio, and her doctorate of medicine, cum laude, from the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. She completed a medicine residency and a gastroenterology fellowship at the Ohio State University, and an advanced transplant hepatology fellowship at The Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Reau was employed at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago as an assistant professor from 2002 until 2005 before accepting a position at the University of Chicago Medicine. She became an associate professor of medicine in 2010, medical director of hepatology clinical and translational research in 2015, and then joined Rush University Medical Center in 2015. She is a fellow of the American Gastroenterological Association and the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases. She has also been the annual honoree of the Illinois chapter of the American Liver Foundation. Dr. Reau’s research interest is in viral hepatitis, both in drug development as well as utilization. She has authored or co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed articles, invited reviews, editorials, and on-line programs, as well as several book chapters, and 2 books. She is on the editorial board for Hepatology and is a guest editor for Clinical Liver Disease for the topic of hepatitis C. She served, as the chair of the public policy committee for the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD), was a member of the AASLD practice guideline committee, and a member of the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) women’s committee. She has been a member of the national board of directors of the American Liver Foundation (ALF) and served as the president of the Illinois chapter of the ALF, a member of the board of directors, and a member of the medical advisory committee (MAC). She is currently co-chair of the National ALF MAC and on multiple advisory boards including Medscape and Medivo. She is a member of the steering committee for the hepatitis C special interest group (SIG) for the AASLD and a member of the ACG training committee. Effective 2013, she is member of the AASLD/IDSA Practice Guidelines for Hepatitis C.