Professor Christopher Hawkey is Professor of
Gastroenterology at Nottingham University and Co-director of
Nottingham University's Institute of Clinical Research, and
President Elect of the British Society of Gastroenterology 2009.

Professor Jaime Bosch is Professor of Medicine, and
Senior Consultant Hepatologist and Chief at the Hepatic Hemodynamic
Laboratory, Liver Unit, Hospital Clinic-Idibaps, University of
Barcelona and Centro de Investigación Biomédica de
Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (Ciberehd), Barcelona,
Spain.

Guadalupe Garcia-Tsao, MD is Professor of Medicine,
Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Digestive Diseases at
Yale University School of Medicine.

Professor Francis Chan is Professor of Medicine and
Therapeutics at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and an
honorary consultant physician at the Prince of Wales Hospital
(PWH).