Biography for Steven Flamm, MD

Steven L. Flamm, MD is a Professor of Medicine and Surgery in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois. He serves as the Chief of the Hepatology Program and Medical Director of Liver Transplantation.

Dr. Flamm received his MD degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He completed both a clinical fellowship in Gastroenterology and a research fellowship in Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School. He then received further specialized training, completing a clinical fellowship in Hepatology and Liver Transplantation at The Deaconess Hospital, Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Flamm is a member of the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA), and is a fellow in the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) and American College of Gastroenterology (ACG). He has served as the Region 7 Representative to the UNOS Liver and Intestine Committee and on the Publication and Practice Guidelines Committee of the AASLD. Further, he was recently a trustee of the AASLD Foundation and chair of the AASLD Development Committee. He is currently a member of the Global Outreach Committee and the chair of the Industry Advancement Committee.

Locally, Dr. Flamm was the American Liver Foundation Annual Honoree in 2015 and is a Chicago Top Doctor.

Dr. Flamm has published widely in the field of hepatic diseases and has spoken both nationally and internationally on many other liver-related topics including viral hepatitis, autoimmune hepatitis, hepatic encephalopathy, and liver transplantation. Dr. Flamm has also been a guest editor for 4 separate editions of Clinics in Liver Disease. He has an active clinical research program for patients with many different chronic liver diseases including chronic viral hepatitis (HBV and HCV), hepatic encephalopathy, primary biliary cholangitis, primary sclerosing cholangitis and autoimmune hepatitis.