Clinical Cases in Hepatology (PDF)

Dr. Nora V. Bergasa is Professor of Medicine Emerita at New York Medical College and Chairman Emerita of the Department of Medicine at New York City (NYC) Health + Hospitals (H+H)/ Metropolitan and a retired member of the Physician Affiliate Group of New York. She serves as Hepatology Attending at NYC, H+H/Woodhull. She graduated from medical school from the Universidad Central del Este in the Dominican Republic, did her internal medicine residency and gastroenterology fellowship at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Downstate, and completed her clinical and research training in hepatology in the Liver Diseases Section of the National Institutes of Health. She has conducted basic and clinical investigations in several areas of hepatology, including cholestasis. Her major research field has concerned the pruritus of liver disease for which she is internationally recognized.

Dr. Bergasa has received numerous awards including The First Oath of Hippocrates Award from SUNY, Downstate, Doctor of the Year, and The Mark H. Levin Oncology Service Award from H++H/Metropolitan, and the 2017 Heritage Innovation in Healthcare Delivery Award. Dr. Bergasa is a fellow of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, and the American Gastroenterological Association, and a Master of the American College of Physicians.