Harvard Catalyst Profiles

University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary	MD	1980	Medicine
University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary		1987	Gastroenterology
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA		1993	Biochemistry
National Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary	PhD	1994	Medicine
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI		1996	Gastroenterology
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA		2001	Gastroenterology

Dr. Gyorgy Baffy is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Chief of Gastroenterology at the VA Boston Healthcare System. He is a graduate of the University Medical School of Debrecen in Hungary. He received his PhD from his studies conducted on growth factor-mediated calcium signaling in hepatocytes as an NIH Fogarty Fellow in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of Pennsylvania. He trained in gastroenterology at the University of Michigan and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. His research interests focus on various aspects of NAFLD such as risk stratification, biomarkers, metabolic reprogramming, cancer bioenergetics, pathophysiology of portal hypertension, and development of hepatocellular carcinoma. He has been involved in several clinical trials related to cirrhosis management and colorectal cancer screening. He developed and organized multiple regional, national, and international workshops and symposia. He published over 100 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters. He has been a member of various scientific review panels and provides editorial work for major journals in gastroenterology and hepatology. In 2014, he received a Fulbright US Scholar award to teach for a semester about obesity and related disorders at the University of Debrecen. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, American College of Gastroenterology, American Gastroenterological Association, and the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases. He is the recipient of the Madaus Prize from the Madaus Liver Foundation and the Hetényi Medal and Pro Optimo Merito in Gastroenterologia Award from the Hungarian Gastroenterological Association.