Dr Ashish Kumar is a Professor and Senior Consultant of Gastroenterology at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, India. He completed his Gastroenterology training from the Sanjay Gandhi Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India in 2004. Subsequently, he worked under the mentorship of Prof Shiv Kumar Sarin for 5 years in his unit in various capacities including at the Institute of Liver & Biliary Sciences (ILBS), New Delhi, India. He has been a visiting fellow at the National Cancer Center, Japan and the University of California, San Francisco, USA. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP) and the Member in the Advisory Council, American College of Physicians (ACP), India Chapter, and the Associate Editor of the Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hepatology. In 2021 and 2022, he was named as one among the top 2% scientists in the world by Elsevier and the Stanford University. He has about 200 publications mostly in international journals, including Gastroenterology, Annals of Internal Medicine, and Gut. His research areas include mainly hepatocellular carcinoma, portal hypertension, acute-on-chronic-liver failure, and stem cells for liver diseases. He is the coordinator and the lead author of the Indian Consensus on Treatment of Liver Cancer under the aegis of Indian National Association for the Study of the Liver (INASL). He has been a Governing Council Member of the INASL and Taskforce member on Hepatitis B and was instrumental in publishing various INASL Guidelines. He was also a faculty member of the Baveno working group on portal hypertension, and member of many APASL working groups. His paper on HVPG-Fibroscan correlation was awarded the Best Paper Award by the GRIPMER and his paper on GI manifestations of Covid was awarded the Best Original Article Award by the Indian Journal of Gastroenterology. ACP has awarded him the ACP India Chapter Clinical Practice Award for the year 2021 and the Scientist of the Year Award for the year 2022. He has also received the India International Healthcare Award for being The Most Promising Gastroenterologist of the Year 2018 of Delhi.

• Best Original Article of the year Award 2022 I am proud to inform that my meta-analysis article on GI & Liver manifestations of covid has received the Best Original Article award from the Indian Journal of Gastroenterology.
• Scientist of the Year Award for the Year 2022 awarded by the American College of Physicians (ACP) India Chapter.
• Figured in the Top 2% of Scientists of the World in the list compiled by Elsevier and Stanford University. Also figured among the top 25 Gastroenterologists from India.
• Awarded Master of the Indian Society of Gastroenterology (MISG) on 07-Jan-2023 during the ISGCON 2022 at Jaipur.
• Awarded Fellow of the Indian National Association for the Study of Liver (FINASL) on 06-Aug-2022 during the INASL 2022.
• Awarded Fellow of the Indian Society of Gastroenterology (FISG) on 12-Feb-2022 during the ISGCON 2021.
• Awarded Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP) on 28-Apr-2022 during the 2022 Convocation Ceremony at the Internal Medicine Meeting at McCormick Place Convention Center, Chicago, IL, USA.
• ACP India Chapter Clinical Practice Award for the year 2021 towards outstanding contribution in the field of Gastromedicine and setting new standards in clinical practice.
• Outstanding Contribution Award 2020 given by the Journal of Clinical and Translational Hepatology in recognition of the contributions towards development of the journal during the year 2020.
• India International Healthcare Award for being The Most Promising Gastroenterologist of the Year 2018 (Delhi) by the APS Research and Media.
• GRIPMER Best Research Paper Award 2017 from Sir Ganga Ram Hospital for paper entitled “Correlation of transient elastography with hepatic venous pressure gradient in patients with cirrhotic portal hypertension: A study of 326 patients from India” published in the journal World Journal of Gastroenterology.
• Young Investigator Award at the APASL 2008, Seoul, Korea, for the paper entitled “Decompensation by variceal bleed and ascites has similar portal hemodynamics in cirrhosis.”
• Plenary Presentation at the APDW 2008, New Delhi, India entitled “Endoscopic variceal ligation plus propranolol and isosorbidemononitrate versus endoscopic variceal ligation alone for secondary prophylaxis of variceal bleeding: a large prospective randomized controlled trial”
• Best Paper Award at the plenary session of ISG-INASL 2007, Mumbai, India, for the paper entitled “Endoscopic variceal ligation (EVL) plus propranolol (P) and isosorbidemononitrate (ISMN) versus endoscopic variceal ligation alone in secondary prophylaxis of variceal bleeding: A prospective randomized controlled trial.”
• Hepatology 360 Award Finalist at the Hepatology Live 2012 Conference held on 11th to 13th May 2012 at Vienna, Austria for the research work entitled “Adrenal insufficiency predicts early mortality in patients with cirrhosis”.

• Associate Editor of the Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hepatology (JCEH), the official, peer-reviewed publication of the INASL published quarterly by Elsevier.
• Member of the Advisory Board of the Indian Journal of Gastroenterology (IJG), the official journal of the Indian Society of Gastroenterology.
• Former Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Clinical and Translational Hepatology, a peer-reviewed journal owned by the Second Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, China.
• Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Research (JGHR), a monthly, open accessed, peer reviewed journal, published from Hong Kong, China.
• Served as the International Editor in Hepatology field for the Journal of Medical Ultrasonics, the official Journal of Japan Society of Ultrasonics in Medicine.
• Served as the Editorial Board Member of the World Journal of Gastrointestinal Pharmacology and Therapeutics for the years 2018 to 2021.
• Served as the Editorial Board Member of the Clinical and Molecular Hepatology, the official journal of The Korean Association for the Study of the Liver (KASL).
• Served as the Guest Editor for the Supplement Issue on Hepatocellular Carcinoma for the Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hepatology (JCEH), the official, peer-reviewed publication of the INASL published quarterly by Elsevier.
• Served as the Assistant Editor of Hepatology International, the official journal of the Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver (APASL), indexed by PubMed and ISI.
• Served as the Editorial Board Member of the World Journal of Hepatology for the year 2017.
• Served as an Editorial Board Member of the Indian Journal of Gastroenterology, the official publication of the Indian Society of Gastroenterology (ISG).
• Served as an Editorial Board Member of the Vigour Zoom Health Magazine, a health magazine targeting the general practitioners of India.

• Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP), 2021
• Fellow of the Indian Society of Gastroenterology (FISG), 2022
• Fellow of the Indian National Association for the Study of the Liver (FINASL), 2022
• Master of the Indian Society of Gastroenterology (MISG), 2023

• Member of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (MRCPE)
• Member of the Baveno Cooperation on portal hypertension
• Member of the American College of Physicians (ACP)
• Member of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD)
• Member of the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG)
• Member of the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL)
• Member of the International Liver Cancer Association (ILCA)
• Member of the Indian National Association for the Study of the Liver (INASL)
• Member of the Indian Society of Gastroenterology (ISG)
• Member of the Epidemiology Foundation of India (EFI)
• Academic Life Member of the Research Society for the Study of Diabetes in India (RSSDI)
• Member of the Association of Physicians of India (API)
• Member of the Indian Medical Association (IMA)
• Member of the Advisory Council, American College of Physicians (ACP) India Chapter
• Member of the Innovative Physicians Forum (IPF)
• Member Supporter of the Cochrane Society
• Former member of the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO)

• Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
• Hepatocellular carcinoma
• Nutrition
• Obesity
• Alcoholic liver disease
• Stem cells for liver disease
• Portal hypertension
• Liver diseases in pregnancy
• Acute-on-chronic liver failure
• Hepatitis B
• Medical statistics and meta-analysis

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