Meena Bansal, MD is tenured Professor of Medicine and NIH funded investigator with a long-standing interest in studying molecular mechanisms of liver fibrosis in Persons Living with HIV (PWH) as well as those without HIV. She has served as the Principal Investigator for numerous clinical trials for NASH, has developed a screening protocol and database for HIV patients with NAFLD/NASH, and is now launching and leading the NASH Center of Excellence at Mount Sinai. The Center will focus on patient identification, care standardization, risk stratification including predictive algorithms, and translational and clinical research.