Liyun Yuan, MD, PhD

Dr. Yuan is a transplant hepatologist specializing in caring for patients with chronic liver diseases, hepatocellular carcinoma, and pre-/post liver transplantation. She completed her internship and residency training in Internal Medicine at Keck USC School of Medicine, where she further finished gastroenterology fellowship training. After that, she took an extra year advanced training in transplant hepatology at University of Colorado, Denver.

Dr. Yuan’s clinical research interests include Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, autoimmune hepatitis and outcome of liver transplantation. She has authored several articles in peer-reviewed journals on various topics in liver disease and liver transplantation. Dr. Yuan’s research activities include searching and validating diagnostic markers and prognostic makers in nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, liver targeting of anti-fibrotic therapy, and the role of PGAM5 in hepatic cell death- using the model of acetoaminophen-induced liver injury.

• Rho Chi Pharmacy Honor Society: Member, 2004
• Charles and Charlotte Krown Fellowship, 2005
• American Association of Pharmaceutical Sciences: Graduate Student Award, 2006

• How Rising Rates of MASLD/MASH Are Impacting Liver Transplant Demand (08/19/2026)

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