Dr. Manuel Mendizabal is the Chief of Hepatology at the Austral University Hospital in Buenos Aires. He received his medical degree from Austral University and completed his training in Hepatology and Liver Transplantation at the University of Pennsylvania. He is part of the different regional scientific societies, being currently the Secretary of the Latin American Association for the Study of the Liver (ALEH). His areas of interest are viral hepatitis, acute liver failure, and liver transplantation having several publications in scientific journals and book chapters.