Associate Professor Simone Strasser is a Senior Staff Specialist in the AW Morrow Gastroenterology and Liver Centre, and the Australian National Liver Transplant Unit at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and the University of Sydney in Sydney Australia. She is President of the Gastroenterological Society of Australia (GESA), a member of the Executive Council of the Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver (APASL) and a member of the Educational Committee of the International Liver Cancer Association (ILCA). She has a major clinical and research interest in primary liver cancer, viral hepatitis, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, advanced liver disease, and liver transplantation. She is Director of Hepatology Clinical Trials at RPAH leading clinical trials of new therapies for patients with liver disease and liver cancer.