Yael R. Nobel, MD, MS

Yael R. Nobel, MD, MS is a transplant hepatologist and physician-scientist at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. She earned her BA in Chemistry with a minor in Global Health and Health Policy from Princeton University prior to attending medical school at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine at NewYork-Presbyterian Columbia University Irving Medical Center, where she also served as a Chief Resident. She then completed her fellowship in Gastroenterology at NYP Columbia and her advanced training in Transplant Hepatology at NYP Columbia/Cornell.

Dr. Nobel's clinical practice is focused on the diagnosis and management of patients with liver disease, including autoimmune liver diseases, viral hepatitis, metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease, alcohol-associated liver disease, and liver cancer. As a transplant hepatologist, she has expertise in the care of patients before and after liver transplantation.

Dr. Nobel completed additional research training through an NIH T32 research fellowship at NYP Columbia and a Masters of Science (MS) in Biostatistics in the Patient-Oriented Research track from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Her research focuses on connections between intestinal bacteria and liver inflammation. Dr. Nobel's work to date has been supported by grants from the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the American College of Gastroenterology.