Email

kanwal@bcm.edu

Positions

Professor and Section Chief

Medicine
Gastroenterology
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas

Member

Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas United States

Editor-in-Chief

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Staff Physician

Gastroenterology
Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Houston, Texas

Addresses

Baylor College of Medicine - McNair Campus (Office)

7200 Cambridge Street
Suite 8B
Houston, TX 77030
United States

Education

M.S.H.S from UCLA School Of Public Health

01/2004 - Los Angeles, CA United States

M.D. from King Edward Medical College, Pakistan

01/1995 - Pakistan

Certifications

Texas Medical License

National Board of Medical Examiners

American Board of Internal Medicine

ABIM Gastroenterology Certification

ABIM Transplant Hepatology Certification

Honors & Awards

Emerging Leaders in Gastroenterology Award

Research Excellence in GI and Liver (REGAL) Award

Professional Interests

• Process and outcomes of care in patients with chronic liver diseases
• Quality management in liver disease
• Medical decision-making
• Patient reported outcomes (health related quality of life)
• Cost effectiveness analyses
• Cirrhosis and related complications

Websites

Memberships

American Association for Study of Liver Disease Practice Metrics Committee

Chair

American Gastroenterological Association Quality Measures Committee

HCV Workgroup Chair

American Association for Study of Liver Disease Training and Policy Group

Member

American Association for Study of Liver Disease Practice Guidelines Committee

Member

American College of Gastroenterology Research

Committee Member

American College of Physicians

American College of Gastroenterology

American Gastroenterological Association

American Association for Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD)

American Medical Association

Funding

Center for Gastrointestinal Development, Infection and Injury - #NIDDK P30 DK 56338-10/15

(12/01/1999 - 02/28/2023) National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases - NIH

This Center supports four scientific cores, conferences and a pilot project program to facilitate on-going Digestive Disease research of center members, promote interactions and translational research between basic and clinical areas, develop new projects, nurture new investigators, and provide GI educational activities.

Patient Centered Care for Individuals with Advanced Liver Disease - #Application # 1 I01 HX002204-01A2

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Health Services Research and Development

The main goal of the project is to develop a patient-centered care model for advanced liver disease, including risk-prediction models and clinician-patient collaborative treatment planning guides that focus on addressing patient unmet needs and expectations about illness course and care preferences for curative, supportive, and palliative care. The study findings will have direct impacts on current advanced liver disease care, as well as provide evidence for developing innovative care models for other serious chronic illnesses.

Risk Stratification for and Early Detection of Liver Cancer - #1 U01 CA230997-01

(09/01/2018 - 08/31/2023) NIH Consortium on Translational Research

The overarching goal of our Translational Research Center (TRC) is to reduce the mortality of hepatocellular cancer (HCC) by developing personalized indices that combine novel and existing biomarkers with clinical, behavioral and genetic data to improve clinical risk stratification and increase early detection of HCC.

Cirrhosis Quality Collaborative

(09/01/2018 - 08/31/2021) American Association for Study of Liver Diseases

This is the first large-scale quality improvement project targeting patients with advanced and chronic liver diseases. It will pilot test a collaborative chronic care network, including necessary technology infrastructure.

Languages

Urdu