The Grady Liver Clinic is a primary-care based hepatitis C (HCV) clinic at Grady Memorial Hospital. Staffed by general internists, it is a nationally recognized model for multidisciplinary, integrated HCV specialty care for an underserved population. The goal of the Liver Clinic is to achieve HCV microelimination leveraging HCV screening, treatment, research and quality improvement. Through the Liver Clinic, Emory GIM researchers and collaborators have made important contributions to the literature. Key research and QI foci in the Liver Clinic include implementation and outcomes of HCV screening, HCV treatment, and hepatocellular carcinoma screening. New areas of investigation and scholarship include the intersection of steatotic liver disease and HCV as well as treatment of alcohol use disorder in the Liver Clinic setting. Scholarship in the Liver Clinic is characterized by collaboration across divisions, departments and schools, with collaborators in gastroenterology, hepatology, infectious disease, endocrinology, surgical oncology, psychiatry, emergency medicine and public health.
Faculty
Publications
HIV and HCV testing at clinical encounters among people who inject drugs, 2013-2018-Opportunities for increased testing and prevention.
Characteristics and outcomes of black and white patients hospitalized with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis: A nationwide analysis.
Safe co-administration of direct-acting antivirals and direct oral anticoagulants among patients with hepatitis C virus infection: An international multicenter retrospective cohort study
Missed opportunities for prevention: prevalence and incidence of human immunodeficiency virus and hepatitis C virus diagnoses among a cohort of individuals discharged from an urban hospital with injection drug-related diagnoses, 2012-2019.
Implementation of a Hepatocellular Carcinoma Screening Program for At-risk Patients Safety-Net Hospital: A Model for National Dissemination.
Differences in inpatient and outpatient hepatitis C virus prevalence and linkage to care rates in a safety net hospital hepatitis C screening program.
Successful Large-Scale, Primary Care-Based Hepatitis C Treatment in an Urban, Underserved Patient Population, 2002-2019
Defining the hepatitis C cure cascade in an Urban health system using the electronic health record
Association of Obesity, Diabetes, and Alcohol Use With Liver Fibrosis Among US Adults With Hepatitis C Virus Infection.
Pretreatment Assessment of Psychosocial Readiness Is Not Associated with Improved Treatment Outcomes in a Safety-Net HCV Treatment Clinic.
Improved HCV Cure Cascade Outcomes Among Urban Baby Boomers Identified Through a Screening Program in the All-Oral Direct Acting Antiviral Era.
Funded Projects
HCV FOCUS: Screening and Linkage to Care, Gilead Sciences
STRIVE: The Southern Liver Health Study. National Institutes of Health Contract
Emory RADX Novel Point of Care HCV RNA Testing