Giada Sebastiani is a Tenured Professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology of Hepatology at McGill University and Clinician Scientist at the Research Institute of McGill University Health Centre. She is the President Elect of the Canadian Association for the Study of the Liver (CASL) 2024-2026 and Fellow of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD). She received a medical degree and specialized in internal medicine at the University of Padua, Italy. She had research training at Harvard Medical School (US), University College of London (UK), University of Bordeaux (France). Her work focuses on steatotic liver disease (MASLD), liver fibrosis and non-invasive diagnostic tools in liver disease. She is author of 230 articles in peer-reviewed journals (including Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Lancet Regional Health, Lancet HIV, Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Journal of Hepatology, Clinical Infectious Diseases; h-index 56), 14 book chapters. Dr Sebastiani is co-founder of the Canadian MASLD Network, Co-Chair of the first MASLD chapter of Diabetes Canada guidelines, and panelist of the first guidance on MASLD of the Canadian Association for the Study of the Liver. She is the sole North American representative in the guidelines of the European AIDS Clinical Society as primary reviewer of the Liver Group. Dr Sebastiani hold the prestigious Merite Clinical Research Salary Award from Fonds Recherche Sante Quebec. Her research program is funded by the Canadian Institute for Health Research, the Fonds Recherche Sante Quebec, Crohn’s Colitis Canada, and the Montreal General Hospital Foundation.