Ramon Bataller, a globally renowned hepatologist, has led departments of medical facilities at places like the University of Pittsburgh and currently works at Barcelona’s Hospital Clínic.

He is graduated in Medicine from University of  Valencia, Spain, and completed his residency and fellowship in Hepatology at Hospital Clinic in Barcelona. His PhD was on the role of Angiotensin in Liver Fibrosis after which he did a research fellowship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  For the past five years he worked as the Head of Hepatology in the University of Pittsburgh and has recently moved to become Chair of the Liver Unit at Hospital Clinic in Barcelona. His main interest is alcohol-induced liver disease and has focused his research on determinants of patient’s outcome and multi-OMICs studies in human samples to identify novel targets for therapy.