Professor Emmanouil Tsochatzis

Professor Emmanouil Tsochatzis is a Professor of Hepatology and Honorary Consultant at the UCL Institute for Liver and Digestive Health in the Royal Free Hospital and Head of the Centre for Metabolic Liver Diseases in ILDH. He leads the specialist multidisciplinary service in NAFLD and has an active research program. His clinical and research interests include NAFLD, non-invasive fibrosis assessment, cirrhosis and portal hypertension and metabolic liver disease (including Wilson's disease and heamochromatosis).

Professor Tsochatzis finished his specialty training and PhD in Hippokration General Hospital in Greece, before moving to the Royal Free Hospital for his post-doc research. He is the recipient of the UEG Rising Star Award in 2014 and the EASL Physician Scientist Fellowship. He has been a consultant hepatologist and a clinical academic since 2014. 

He sits on national and international clinical guideline committees, serves as specialist advisor to NICE, and is actively involved in undergraduate and postgraduate education. He is a member of the steering committee of the Baveno collaboration for portal hypertension. He served as a member of the governing board of the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) from 2019-2022 and chaired the scientific committee in 2021-22. He has led several international research collaborations resulting in more than 300 publications in peer reviewed journals. He has designed pathways for risk stratification of patients with liver disease in primary care and is passionate on improving the outcomes of patients with liver disease. He has received funding for his research from NIHR, EASL and EU Horizon 2020.