Rotonya Carr elected to American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases governing board

Dr. Rotonya Carr, associate professor and head (Gastroenterology) has been elected Councilor of the Governing Board of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) effective January 2024.

She will serve a three-year term as Councilor, become President-Elect, followed by President of AASLD in January 2028. 

Rotonya McCants Carr, MD is the Cyrus E. Rubin Chair and Division Head of Gastroenterology at the University of Washington. She is a basic science researcher and clinical hepatologist who specializes in the care of patients with fatty liver diseases.

Her laboratory uses complementary in vivo and cellular approaches to investigate the mechanisms of insulin resistance in metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD, formerly NAFLD) and alcohol-associated liver disease (ALD).

Dr. Carr is a member of the American Gastroenterological Association, American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, European Association for the Study of the Liver, Research Society of Alcoholism, founding member of the Association of Black Gastroenterologists and Hepatologists, and national board member of the American Liver Foundation.

She is a former guest editor of Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology and current editorial member of Hepatology, Liver Transplantation, and the Journal of Lipid Research. In 2020, Dr. Carr was honored as one of Cell’s most inspiring Black scientists.