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Fernando Bril, MD

Assistant Professor
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM
Birmingham, AL, United States

Dr. Bril is currently an Assistant Professor and Associate Scientist in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). He completed medical school and 4 years of internal medicine residency at Instituto Universitario CEMIC in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Before redoing clinical training in the US, he joined the University of Florida (UF) in Gainesville, FL to complete a research fellowship/post-doc in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. He then completed internal medicine residency and endocrinology fellowship at University of Alabama at Birmingham. Even before residency, he had a strong interest in clinical research and biostatistics, embarking early-on on a career as a physician-scientist. His main research interest has been to understand the metabolic mechanisms that promote the progression of MASLD in obesity and diabetes, identify markers for early diagnosis, and assess pharmacological approaches that may be able to change the natural history of the disease. He has successfully applied and combined complex techniques, such as euglycemic hyperinsulinemic clamps, use of stable and radioactive isotopes to measure metabolic fluxes, liver and cardiac magnetic resonance 1H-spectroscopy and elastography, and targeted/untargeted metabolomics to try to answer fundamental questions in the area of MASLD. Despite his relatively early career, he has >90 publications in the field of MASLD, obesity and type 2 diabetes. He is a frequent reviewer for important journals in the field such as Diabetes Care, J Clin Endocrinol Metab, Diabetologia, Hepatology, Lancet Gastroenterol Hepatol, and Liver International, etc. He was awarded the Early Career award from The Obesity Society and Endocrine Society.

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