Dr. Trivedi is a Professor of Cholestatic Liver Diseases at the University of Birmingham, and Consultant Hepatologist at University Hospitals Birmingham (UK). He leads the cholestatic disease research programme in Birmingham, and is Chief Investigator for the UK-Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis (PSC) consortium. Additionally, Palak was elected chair of the British Association for Study of the Liver Special Interest Group (BASL SIG) for immune-mediated and cholestatic liver disease. The overarching themes of research in the role of gut-liver immunity, modelling the natural history of rare liver disease, and optimising risk stratification to enhance clinical trial design in chronic cholestasis.