Hie-Won Hann, M.D, FAASLD, Professor of Medicine at Jefferson Medical College has been the director of Liver Disease Prevention Center at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital since 1988.   A graduate of Seoul National University Medical School, she received residency and oncology fellowship training at Harvard.  She began her work on HBV and Liver Cancer in 1971 at Fox Chase Cancer Center under the leadership of Dr. Baruch Blumberg, the1976 Nobel Laureate for discovery of HBV and continued her study on HBV for 17 years until1988 when she was invited to Jefferson Medical College. Her current NIH funded research projects as a co-investigator include “Micro RNA and HBV related HCC”, “Small RNA sequencing and prospective evaluation of HCC in patients with chronic HBV infection” and “Development of a Urine Test for the Early Detection of Liver Cancer”.  She has conducted 31 clinical trials on HBV including lamivudine, adefovir, telbivudine, clevudine, lobucavir, entecavir, tenofovir.disoproxil fumarate and tenofovir alafenamide.   Having published a total of 340 articles, abstracts, book chapters, she is a coauthor of recently published ‘Management of Chronic Hepatitis B in Asian Americans’ and a reviewer of over 35 medical journalsn including Hepatology, Gastroenterology, Gut, J of Hepatology and Cancer Research, WJ Gastroenterol, WJ Hepatol, Intervirol..Dr. Hann has written 88 articles on Asian American issues and on opera and authored a book entitled “Anyone can enjoy Opera”.   For 23 years since 1983, Dr. Hann and her husband Dr. Richard Hann, an Immunologist, have screened >25,000 Asian Americans by visiting about 450 Korean American churches, several Chinese, Vietnamese/Cambodian American churches. As a Key Opinion Leader, she has given lectures on hepatitis B in the U.S. Korea, Philippines, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, China, Vietnam, Australia and Panama. She served on CDC Hepatitis B Advisory Group for Asian/Pacific Islander and National Asian Pacific Leadership Initiative on Cancer and has been a Medical and Scientific Advisor of Hepatitis B Foundation.”   Dr. Hann received 19 awards including Women in Leadership Award (Womens Way), Distinguished Leadership Award (Hepatitis B Foundation), Dream of Equality Award (Asian Americans for Equality), Ham-Choon Medical Science Award (Seoul National University), Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania Award from the Governor of Pennsylvania.