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All the show. All right. Hello, hello, everyone. Welcome back to a Raphael Medina subspecialty episode.

My name is Maddie, and I'll be facilitating the session today. The focus of the session is

Hepatology, and we have two fantastic clinicians from UCLA today who we are going to learn from.

We have Dr. Arpin Patel, who will be our case discussant, and Dr. Christopher Coe, who will be the case

presenter. So really excited to have you both here.

And I'm actually going to pass the mic to them to introduce each other and maybe share

any experience that they had together, anything they want to say about the other person.

So maybe I'll pass the mic to you first, Christopher, and would love for you to introduce Dr. Patel.

Great. Hi, everyone. Thanks so much for inviting me to VMR. I've been looking forward to this and excited about it. I'm particularly excited about doing this with Dr. Patel. Dr. Patel is an assistant

clinical professor of medicine at UCLA, where I'm doing my GI Fellowship. And I love working with Dr. Patel. I first met him in my

first year of GI Fellowship. We have multiple liver clinics at the VA that he is in charge of.

And some of the things that I've loved about Dr. Patel is not only does he teach you about the liver,

how to work up a liver patient as a GI fellow. But he's also very interested in

critical illness communication. And so I've learned a lot about how to take care of the whole

patient with unsage liver disease from Dr. Patel. I always look forward to our liver clinics together,

and I've been looking forward to this VMR.

Thank you, Chris.

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