How Specialists & General Providers Together Can Drive Early Detection of MASLD/MASH to Transform Patients’ Liver Health

  Dr. Angelo Paredes, a Board-Certified Gastroenterologist and Transplant Hepatologist joins eHealth Radio and the eHealth Radio and Health News and Liver Health Channels. His practice focuses on the management of MASLD and MASH, liver cirrhosis, and hepatitis, and he also enjoys caring for patients with the entire spectrum of digestive diseases. Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Dr. Angelo Paredes discuss the following:

1. Tell us more about your experience and how you became involved in liver health and passionate about this area of medicine.
2. Can you walk us through why early detection of MASLD (metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease) is so critical, and why general practitioners in primary care, family and internal medicine should start assessing for this disease and not just gastroenterologists and hepatologists?
3. What risk factors are visible in patients who should be screened?
4. In your experience, when is the right moment for a primary care practitioners and endocrinologists to refer a patient with suspected or confirmed MASLD to a specialist?
5. What tools or screening methods do you believe should be more widely adopted in primary care/family medicine to help identify patients at risk for advanced liver disease?
6. How can primary care/family medicine and GI/hepatology work more collaboratively to catch MASLD earlier and prevent disease progression? 

Dr. Paredes, a Queens NY native, came to us from Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, TX, after a fourteen-year career as an Active-Duty Medical Officer in the US Army. After completing his undergraduate degree at Cornell University, he obtained his Doctor of Medicine at Georgetown University in 2006. He completed his Internal Medicine Internship, Residency training, and Gastroenterology Fellowship training at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He then spent a year in the Transplant Liver Program at Virginia Commonwealth University learning to care for patients with advanced liver disease. Following his Fellowship training, Dr. Paredes became the Hepatology Section Chief at Brooke Army Medical Center. He has an accomplished background in research, with more than 25 scientific peer reviewed publications, and more than 50 presentations at international meetings. During his time in the Army, he participated in a medical mission to Honduras (2007), and served overseas in Iraq (2009-2010). He was Honorably Discharged as a Lieutenant Colonel in January 2020. Dr. Paredes is board certified in both Gastroenterology and Transplant Hepatology and is an active member of the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease. His practice focuses on the management of liver cirrhosis, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, autoimmune hepatitis, and viral hepatitis but he also enjoys caring for patients with the entire spectrum of Digestive Diseases. Website: https://middlesexgastro.com People also listened to this: Breakthroughs in Back Health: Pioneering Cervical Disk Revision Surgery