Frank Tacke

Prof. Dr. Frank Tacke, MD, PhD, MBHA, is the Chairman of Hepatology & Gastroenterology at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, one of the largest universities hospitals in Europe. He was educated in Hannover, Germany; Houston (M.D. Anderson Cancer Centre); and New York (Mount Sinai Medical Centre). From 2006-2019, he worked at the University Hospital Aachen, Germany. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology, Endocrinology and Diabetology, Critical Care Medicine, Transplantation Medicine and Infectious Diseases. He has received several prizes and awards (including the prestigious Emmy-Noether-research group funding by the German Research Foundation). Prof. Tacke has been recognised as Highly Cited Researcher by Web of Science for five consecutive years: 2020-2022 in the category “Cross-field” and 2023-2024 in the category “Clinical Medicine”. He has served on the Governing Board of the European Association for the Study of the Liver (Board member 2014-2017, Vice Secretary General 2017-2018). He is currently Co-Editor at the Journal of Hepatology (Impact-Factor 26.8). He is the coordinator of the multidisciplinary European guideline on metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (EASL-EASD-EASO).