Dr Brian McMahon

Brian J. McMahon is a clinical Liver Specialist (Hepatologist) and the Director of the Liver Disease and Hepatitis Program at the Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage, Alaska. He is a guest researcher at the Arctic Investigations Program of the Centers for Disease Control in Anchorage, Auxiliary professor at University of Alaska Health Sciences Program and Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington.

He has directed the vaccination programs in Alaska Natives that have reduced the rates of acute hepatitis A and B from the highest in the US to the lowest in the world. He has been active in research in viral hepatitis A, B, and C, as well as other liver diseases among Alaska Natives/American Indians, for over 35 years. Dr. McMahon is a co-author of the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease (AASLD) US Practice Guideline on Chronic Hepatitis B and co-chair of the WHO hepatitis B Guidelines Committee. He was on the Institute of Medicine Committee that published recommendations for Hepatitis and Liver Cancer in 2010. He is the author or co-author of more than 170 peer-reviewed papers, 50 book chapters, review articles, or editorials