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Rohit Loomba, MD, MHSc (he/him/his)

Professor of Medicine
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA

Rohit Loomba, MD, is a Professor of Medicine (with tenure), Director of Hepatology, at the University of California at San Diego. He is an internationally recognized thought leader in nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), and non-invasive assessment of liver disease using advanced imaging modalities. He is the founding director of the UCSD NAFLD Research Center. He holds several patents on non-invasive biomarkers of NASH and fibrosis. His research is funded by the National Institutes of Health as a Principal Investigator including two R01s, three U01 (two NIDDK and one from NIAAA), clinical core director of P30 (NIDDK) and project director P01 (NHLBI) grant mechanisms, Foundation of NIH, as well as several large multicenter, multi-million dollar investigator initiated research projects funded by the industry. He is the Principal Investigator, UCSD, for the NIDDK-sponsored NASH Clinical Research Network and the Liver Cirrhosis Network. Dr. Loomba is passionate regarding clinical research mentoring and future leaders in liver disease. The UCSD NAFLD Research Center has become a global hub for training in clinical research methodology in liver diseases for junior investigators who visit from all over the world. Dr. Loomba serves on the Editorial Board of Gastroenterology, Journal of Hepatology, GUT and Nature Reviews in Gastroenterology and Hepatology, and recently completed a 5-year term as the Deputy Editor of HEPATOLOGY, the official journal of the AASLD. Currently, he serves as the co-Editor of Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, an international journal in the field of gastroenterology and Hepatology. Dr. Loomba is an elected member of American Society of Clinical Investigation. He has published more than 420 manuscripts and has an H-index of 115. He has been consistently listed among the top 1% of the globally, highly cited scientists across all fields (1 in a 1000 scientists and researchers) in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 by Web of Science.

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