Nancy Reau, MD

Medical Education:

• The Ohio State University Medical School, Internal Medicine Residency and GI fellowship
• Johns Hopkins Transplant Hepatology Fellowship

Current Academic or Administrative Positions:

• Professor of Medicine
• Richard B. Capps Chair of Hepatology
• Chief, Section of Hepatology 
• Associate Director, Solid Organ Transplantation
• Rush University Medical Center

Area of Research interests:

• Viral Hepatitis
• Complications of End Stage Liver Disease
• Efficiency and optimization of clinical care cascades

Publications and Presentations:

• 100+ peer-reviewed publications,
• 150+ Invited Reviews, Editorial,Textbook Chapters and Web-Based publications.
• 500+ Invited Lectures

Comments:

Nancy Reau, the Richard B. Capps Chair of Hepatology, is currently Associate Director of Solid Organ Transplantation and Section Chief of Hepatology at Rush University Medical Center.

 Dr Reau received her undergraduate degree (BA) at Oberlin College in Oberlin, OH, USA and doctorate of medicine (MD), cum laude, from the Ohio State University in Columbus, OH. She completed a medicine residency and a gastroenterology fellowship at the Ohio State University in Columbus. She completed her advanced transplant hepatology fellowship at The Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore, MD.

 Dr Reau was employed at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, IL as an Assistant Professor from 2002 until 2005, when she accepted a position at the University of Chicago Medicine. She became an Associate Professor of Medicine in 2010, Medical Director of Hepatology Clinical and Translational Research in 2015 and then joined Rush University Medical Center in 2015 where she is a Professor of Medicine. She is a fellow of the American Gastroenterological Association, American College of Gastroenterology and of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD).

 Dr Reau’s research interest is in viral hepatitis. She was editor in chief for Clinical Liver Disease, the AASLD multimedia journal.  She served as the AASLD chair of the public policy committee and was a member of the AASLD practice guideline committee. She was one of the original authors of the AASLD/IDSA hepatitis C guidance document.  She has been a member of the national board of directors of the American Liver Foundation and served as the president of the Illinois chapter of the ALF. She is current chair of the World Gastroenterology Organization Hepatology Committee and a member of the American College of Gastroenterology Practice Parameters Committee.