Aftab Ala

Professor Aftab Ala, MBBS, MD, PhD, FRCP, is Professor of Hepatology and Consultant Hepatologist at the Institute of Liver Studies at King’s College Hospital in London, UK, and the University of Surrey, Guildford, UK, and Chair of the Rare Liver Dsease Special Interest Group at the British Association for the Study of the Liver (BASL). He obtained his medical qualification from Charing Cross and Westminster (Imperial College Medical School) in London in 1992. Professor Ala pursued specialized training in Gastroenterology and Hepatology at King’s and Royal Free Hospitals in London and Advanced Hepatology Fellowship at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, USA, from 2003 to 2004 where he focused on rare liver and inherited metabolic liver diseases and liver transplantation. He subsequently won an International Sheila Sherlock Royal College of Physicians Fellowship at the Center of Excellence for Wilson Disease, Yale University, USA.

Professor Ala earned a PhD from University College, London, in 2005 and received a Wellcome Trust Research Training fellowship successfully focusing on immune and inflammatory mechanisms that connect liver and gut diseases.

Professor Ala has made significant contributions to the field of medicine, research, and education. His ongoing research and clinical trials programs (phases 1–3) in complex liver disease and health inequality are supported by international industry partners, the UK National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) and the UKRI/MRC