Anna Suk-Fong Lok, MD 駱淑芳

Dame Sheila Sherlock Distinguished University Professor

Alice Lohrman Andrews Research Professor of Hepatology

Professor of Internal Medicine

Director of Clinical Hepatology

Assistant Dean for Clinical Research

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

Dr. Lok graduated from the University of Hong Kong Medical School. She completed her hepatology training in London under Dame Sheila Sherlock at the Royal Free Hospital in London.  She was faculty at the University of Hong Kong before she moved to the United States. She joined the University of Michigan in 1995 as Director of the Hepatology Program and became Assistant Dean for Clinical Research in 2016. 

Dr. Lok’s research focuses on natural history and treatment of hepatitis B and C. She has published more than 550 papers on viral hepatitis and liver diseases including the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) guidelines on “Hepatitis B”. She also participated in the development of the first World Health Organization guidelines on hepatitis B and C. 

Dr. Lok received many awards throughout her career including the Distinguished Scientist Award from the Hepatitis B Foundation in 2008, the Distinguished Service Award from the AASLD in 2011, the William Beaumont Prize in Gastroenterology from the American Gastroenterological Association in 2016, a Gold Medal Award from the Canadian Association for the Study of the Liver and an Hon DSc from the University of Hong Kong in 2017, an International Recognition Award from the European Association for the Study of the Liver in 2018, and a Distinguished University Professorship from the University of Michigan in 2019. 

Dr. Lok served as Associate Editor of HEPATOLOGY in 2002-6, co-Editor of Journal of Viral Hepatitis in 2007-9, Senior Associate Editor of GASTROENTEROLOGY in 2011-2012, and President of AASLD in 2017.