Anthony Martinez, MD, AAHIVS, FAASLD is an associate professor of medicine at the University at Buffalo and medical director of hepatology at Erie County Medical Center. His clinic, “La Bodega,” has been recognized nationally and internationally as a novel co-localized model for managing viral hepatitis and addiction disorders. Dr. Martinez has lectured worldwide on Hepatitis C management among people with substance use disorders, and his team’s work has been presented at the annual liver meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver, the annual conference of the International Network On Viral Hepatitis in Substance Users and at the International Liver Congress. He has been a primary and co-investigator on numerous clinical trials related to hepatitis C and fatty liver disease. He is board-certified by the ABIM and the American Academy of HIV Medicine. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease, ambassador and co-chair of the Chronic Liver Disease Foundation HCV Committee, and an inductee in the Gold Humanism Honor Society.
