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1Dr Ahn is an associate professor of medicine at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Oregon. Dr Gish is a clinical professor of medicine (consultant) at Stanford Hospital and Medical Center in Stanford, California; clinical professor of medicine (adjunct) at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas, Nevada; senior medical director at St Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona; vice chair of the National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable in San Francisco, California; medical director of the Hepatitis B Foundation in Doylestown, Pennsylvania; and principal of Robert G. Gish Consultants, LLC, in San Diego, California.
Hepatitis D virus (HDV) causes severe liver disease, requiring hepatitis B coinfection. Increased awareness and improved diagnostics are driving new screening and therapy efforts for this "forgotten virus".
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