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Visiting Faculty

Anil Dhawan, MBBS, MD, FRCPCH
Visiting Professor of Pediatrics

Anil Dhawan, MBBS, MD, FRCPCH

Dr. Dhawan is a renowned pediatric hepatologist with expertise in liver transplantation and hepatocyte transplantation. As Visiting Professor he promotes collaborative research in inherited metabolic liver disease with Pramod Mistry, MD, PhD, and his group in the Department of Pediatrics. Dr. Dhawan participates in didactic lectures for the fellowship training program.

Research Interests & Support: Dr. Dhawan is the director of the King's Hepatocyte & Cell Isolation Unit and is leading the research group on the establishment of a human hepatocyte bank and clinical transplantation. He is also a principal investigator on the NIH/NIDDK funded Pediatric Acute Liver Failure Study Group (PALFG).

Current Appointments:
      Professor of Pediatric Hepatology
      Deputy Director, King's Liver Unit
      Director, King's Hepatocyte & Cell Isolation Unit
      King's College Hospital School of Medicine, London

Katherine Amy Kacena, PhD
Visiting Lecturer in Pediatrics

Katherine Kacena, PhD

Dr. Kacena is an outstanding biostatistician and a scholar. She has made important contributions to the field of Gaucher disease through application of innovative tools of propensity scoring and linear mixed modeling to study therapeutic effects in this rare and highly heterogenous disease. She will continue her collaborations in several projects within Yale's National Gaucher Disease Center and develop a teaching module in biostatistics for our postdoctoral fellows in the GI training programs.