Dr. Philips is a two time AASLD clinical hepatology plenary awardee (2015, 2017) and three time AASLD Young Investigator Award winner (2015, 2016, 2017), winner of the President of India Gold in Hepatology from ILBS, New Delhi in 2016 and currently Clinical Lead,The Liver Unit of the Cochin Gastroenterology Group, based in Kochi, under Philip Augustine Associates. His interests lie in gut microbiome and severe alcoholic hepatitis, interventional Hepatology, drug induced liver injury (Ayurveda and herbals) and sepsis in cirrhosis. His pioneering work in the field of liver diseases has been the introduction of healthy donor fecal transplant for severe alcoholic hepatitis and novel data on toxicology and chemical analysis of complementary and alternative medicine induced liver injury.