Dr Valérie McLin is the Medical Lead of the Swiss Pediatric Liver Center in Geneva, Switzerland and also the Principal Investigator of the International Registry of Congenital Portosystemic Shunts.

She has a long-standing interest in characterizing the unique features of the neurocognitive manifestations of juvenile-onset liver disease and portosystemic bypass both in animals models and human subjects.

Recently, she has been expanding her research into portosystemic disease in general, to include pulmonary vascular liver disease, renal involvement, and endocrine manifestations.