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Gary Davis M.D.
Dr. Davis is the Director of General and Transplant Hepatology for Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas and the Annette C. and Harold C. Simmons Transplant Institute. Dr. Davis trained in internal medicine, gastroenterology and hepatology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He completed a hepatology fellowship at the National Institutes of Health. He was Professor of Medicine and Director of Hepatology and Liver Transplantation at the University of Florida for 18 years prior to joining the medical staff at Baylor in 2002. Dr. Davis has a special interest in viral hepatitis and transplantation. His work is renowned for his research in anti-viral therapy for hepatitis C.

Robert P. Perrillo, M.D.
Dr. Perrillo is internationally recognized for his work on antiviral therapy of chronic hepatitis B. He is an opinion leader and is active in clinical research in antiviral therapy in hepatitis B. He is board certified in internal medicine and gastroenterology. Prior to joining Liver Consultants of Texas, Dr. Perrillo was Director of Academic Affairs, Gastroenterology and Hepatology and Clinical Professor of Medicine at Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans.

Carmen Landaverde, M.D.
Dr. Landaverde specializes in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), end-stage liver disease, and liver transplant medicine. She is board certified in transplant hepatology, gastroenterology and internal medicine. Her professional interests include alcoholic liver disease, viral and cholestatic hepatitis, autoimmune liver disease and liver tumors. Dr. Landaverde is fluent in Spanish.

Rita Lepe, M.D.
Dr. Lepe serves as Transplant Hepatology Fellowship Director. She joined Liver Consultants of Texas in 2004 after completing her residency in internal medicine at Finch University Health Sciences/Chicago Medical School and her gastroenterology and hepatology fellowships at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Lepe is fluent in Spanish and has a special interest in autoimmune hepatitis, hepatitis C and liver transplantation.

Linsheng Guo, M.D.
Dr. Guo specializes in hepatology and liver transplant medicine. He completed his fellowship in transplant hepatology at Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona. Dr. Guo's professional interests include post-transplant liver disease, management of hepatitis B and C and cholestatic liver diseases. Dr. Guo is fluent in Chinese.

Jacqueline O'Leary, M.D., M.P.H.
Dr. O'Leary is the Medical Director of the Liver and Transplant Unit at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas. She is board certified in transplant hepatology, gastroenterology and internal medicine. Dr. O'Leary completed an Advanced Hepatology Fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. She also received a Masters in Public Health at Harvard School of Public Health in Boston. Dr. O'Leary specializes in viral hepatitis, cholestatic and autoimmune liver disease, and transplant hepatology. In addition, she is actively engaged in clinical research in viral hepatitis and has done basic science research in immunology.

James Trotter, M.D.
Dr. James Trotter is the Medical Director of Liver Transplantation at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas. Before joining Liver Consultants of Texas, Dr. Trotter served as the Medical Director of Liver Transplantation at the University of Colorado in Denver. Dr. Trotter completed his medical training at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. He went on to receive fellowship training in gastroenterology and hepatic transplantation at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC.
Dr. Trotter's primary interests include end-stage liver disease and the management of liver transplant candidates and recipients. Dr. Trotter specializes in hepatitis C, ascites, complications of portal hypertension, including esophageal varices and hepatic encephalopathy. He also has vast experience in the management of medical complications after liver transplantation including immunosuppression in liver transplant recipients and the treatment of hepatitis C before and after liver transplantation. Dr. Trotter is the principal investigator in numerous national research studies. He is the author of Controversies in Liver Transplantion and has authored or co-authored more than 100 articles on liver disease and transplantation.

Jennifer T. Wells, M.D.
Dr. Wells trained in internal medicine and gastroenterology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where she also completed a fellowship in transplant hepatology. She is board certified in transplant hepatology, gastroenterology, and internal medicine. She specializes in hepatology and liver transplant medicine. Her professional interests include viral and cholestatic hepatitis, autoimmune liver disease and liver tumors. In addition she is interested in organ systems affected by portal hypertension and cirrhosis such as hepatorenal and hepato/portopulmonary syndromes.

(Fort Worth)

Manjushree Gautam, M.D., M.A.S.
Dr. Gautam is board certified in internal medicine and gastroenterology and board eligible in transplant hepatology. She completed her transplant hepatology fellowship at Mayo Clinic in Arizona and then went on to do a gastroenterology and hepatology fellowship at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinic before joining Liver Consultants of Texas. She also has a Masters Degree in Clinical Research from the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Gautam will see patients at Baylor All Saints Medical Center in Fort Worth.
Dr. Gautam specializes in the management of complications of end stage liver disease, including hepatorenal syndrome, ascites and cardiomyopathy. She also has a special interest in non alcoholic fatty liver disease and hepatic tumors.

Stevan Gonzalez, M.D., M.S.
Dr. Gonzalez is board certified in transplant hepatology, gastroenterology and internal medicine. He completed his fellowship in transplant hepatology at the Stanford University Medical Center in Stanford, CA before joining Liver Consultants of Texas. . He also has a Master's degree in biostatistics.
Dr. Gonzalez' professional interest include general hepatology with special interests in viral hepatitis, viral coinfections, hepatocellular carcinoma and transplant hepatology.

Apurva A. Modi, M.D.
Dr. Modi specializes in alcoholic and non-alcoholic fatty liver diseases, viral and cholestatic hepatitis and liver transplantation. He is board certified in internal medicine, gastroenterology and is currently board eligible in transplant hepatology. Dr. Modi completed a transplant hepatology fellowship at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore before joining Liver Consultants of Texas. His professional interests include treatment of gastric varices using cyanoacrylate glue as well as the use of complementary and alternative medicines in liver diseases.

Natalie G.B. Murray, M.D.
Dr. Murray serves as Director of Liver Transplant at Baylor All Saints Medical Center in Fort Worth. She is board certified in transplant hepatology and internal medicine. She trained in internal medicine, gastroenterology, hepatology, and critical care at the Los Angeles County and University of Southern California Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA. She completed a hepatology fellowship at the USC Liver Unit in Downey, CA. Dr. Murray has a special interest in the management of hepatic failure and transplantation.