Biography
Stephen Stewart is a Consultant Hepatologist in the Mater Hospital and Director of the Centre for Liver Disease. He trained in Edinburgh, Newcastle and Dublin and was a Transplant Hepatology Consultant in the UK before returning to Ireland in 2010. His major clinical and research interest is alcoholic liver disease, having obtained a PhD in this area in 2004 as a Medical Research Council Clinical Training Fellow. From 2007-2010 he was the Clinical Advisor for Alcohol Use Disorders to the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) producing recommendations for clinical management of physical harms associated with alcohol misuse. He has ongoing research programmes in the use of novel markers to determine prognosis in cirrhosis from all aetiologies, and the utility of radiological tools to determine prognosis post-treatment of hepatitis C.