
Tzu-Hao Lee (He/Him) Txp Hepatologist/Asst. Professor @bcm_gihep #HBV #HCV #LT #HCC #MedEd #DEI @RainbowinGastro🏳️🌈Alumni: @Duke_GI @IMResidencyDuke #Taiwan
Houston, Texas
Joined March 2012
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Proud to share this🔥very first review on chronic #liver diseases in🏳️⚧️transgender & gender diverse populations @LancetGastroHep!
Highlights:
🔥Hepatic effects of Gender-affirming hormone therapy
🔥CLD in🏳️⚧️
🔥Liver Txp for🏳️⚧️
Thanks to my⭐️mentee @ThanhNmed and all the co-authors for their contribution🙏
🆓download authors.elsevier.com/a/1mRR2…
#LiverTwitter #GITwitter #LGBTQIA #DEI
🌈 Congratulations to our four ACG 2026 RIG Travel Award recipients!
👏Proud to see the next generation advancing LGBTQ+ digestive health research.
#ACG2026! 🎉 #RainbowsInGastro
Congratulations to our four #ACG2026🌈#RIG Travel Award recipients!
Meet the ⭐️ researchers helping advance LGBTQ+ digestive health research.
Join us in celebrating their work! 🧵 #ACG2026 #RainbowsInGastro
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1/I couldn't agree with you more. Frailty matters.
Important work by @Fran_cesca0206 and team: #LiverFrailtyIndex is assoc with 2.2x ⬆️ mortality in inpts. Also assoc with ⬆️ ICU days and LOS.
Confirms multictr work by @serperm and @YucaSpice 10.1002/lt.26100
📑 Frailty matters 💪
🚨Among hospitalized 🏥 patients with decompensated #cirrhosis, physical #frailty was the strongest predictor of early mortality ☠️ ❕
#LiverX #OpenAccess
journals.lww.com/hepcomm/ful…
Thank you, @TCotterMDand & @AsraniSumeet, for inviting me to moderate the closing session of the inaugural 🔥#TheLiverSummit!
I enjoyed the practical discussions and the chance to learn from such a wonderful group of speakers. Congratulations on a terrific first conference! 👏 #TLS2026 #LiverTwitter
The TLS 2026 faculty are together in Dallas-Fort Worth!
Grateful to this incredible group for joining us tonight. Tomorrow, we get to share their expertise with the medical community.
See you at The Liver Summit!
TheLiverSummit.com
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The #Liver Summit is off to a great start‼️
⭐️ Metabolic Health
⭐️Steatotic Liver Disease
⭐️General Hepatology Updates
@TCotterMD @AsraniSumeet
Honored to present at the 🔥5th Annual TeCH Symposium in Dallas!
Thank you, @AsraniSumeet, @docamitgs, and @SeragHashem, for the invitation and opportunity. I learned so much from the outstanding speakers and discussions.
Excited to keep working together to reduce the burden of #LiverCancer across Texas! 🤠
#HCC #Hepatology @bswhealth @UTSWMedCenter @bcm_gim #LiverTwitter
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Dreams can come true.
>10 years of research, friendship, and team building with patients and caregivers brought us to these beautiful results.
Together we (@serperm) prevented falls in patients with cirrhosis.
journals.lww.com/hep/abstrac…
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🚨Proud of our new publication in @HEP_Journal🚨
FIB-4 misses 36% of significant #fibrosis in #HIV (n≈5,000, 7 centers) — worse in #MASLD.
💡 FIB-4 alone isn’t enough.
➡️ Add metabolic + HIV factors (FIB-HIV)
➡️ Consider earlier transient elastography
journals.lww.com/hep/abstrac…
At #GLMA2026 today! Join Jess Wisocky and me for the workshop:🏳️🌈Advancing Liver Health in Sexual and Gender Minorities, covering #viral hepatitis, #PrEP, #MASLD, #alcohol-associated liver disease, and affirming care.
🗺️Ravenna A/B 📅 4:15–5:15 PM, 9/17/2026
@GLMA_LGBTHealth
#LGBTQHealth #LiverTwitter
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Meet Dr. @JVLazarus, shaping global MASLD/MASH policy, and Dr. @HowardTLeeMD, advancing equity and inclusion in liver care. Two voices you won't want to miss in Montreal.
#CASLSTC2026
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🩺 BCM Gastroenterology & Hepatology 2026 Board Review Course
📅 Oct 3–4, 2026
📍 Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center, Houston, TX
💻 In-person + Virtual
Register: cpd.education.bcm.edu/conten……
#GITwitter #MedEd #GIBoards
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❤️ Delighted to share our new Review published in @TheLancetHIV
🌍 20–41% have #MASLD
🔬12–20% have significant liver #fibrosis
🚨 It is time to integrate liver health into #HIV care.
#communautéFRQ #Hepatology #LiverHealth #HealthEquity @EACSociety
👉 lnkd.in/gdcqzD62
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📑 Hepatitis B treatment response and factors associated with #HBV treatment success: A population-based study in Rwanda‼️
#LiverX #OpenAccess
journals.lww.com/hepcomm/ful…
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Women of GI: Work-life balance isn't about saying no. It's about picking what to say yes to.
Check out this podcast with @UmaMahadevanIBD and Colleen Kelly, two luminaries in GI, on the yeses that shaped their careers and the field.
@AmCollegeGastro @UCSFGASTRO @AmerGastroAssn
🎙️@AmCollegeGastro Women in GI Podcast bit.ly/womengi ⭐️new episode⭐️
Thrilled to get to sit down with the incredible @UmaMahadevanIBD & @ckellymd to hear their advice on cultivating a niche and building a fulfilling career in GI
🎧Listen here!
bit.ly/nicheGI
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Introducing the Cirrhosis Administrative Frailty Index (CAFI), the first claims-based frailty index developed for cirrhosis, validated against the in-person LFI.
Check out this work led by brilliant surgeon Dr. Lucia Calthorpe. doi.org/10.1097/LVT.00000000…
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Micronutrient deficiency in cirrhosis
1. Super common!
2. Vitamin A and zinc among most common
3. Selenium deficiency➡️frailty
Excellent study from Melinda Wang and @AASLDtweets Impact Awardee. @JenLaiLiverDoc
journals.lww.com/hepcomm/ful…
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Asia’s House is providing a safe place to land, a community that cares, and a little more hope for Houston’s queer and trans youth. What a beautiful example of community showing up for its young people! Read more here: chron.com/culture/article/ho…
Great opportunity for those presenting 🌈LGBTQ+ related research at the upcoming @AmCollegeGastro annual meeting!
#GITwitter #LiverTwitter
📣 Are you a fellow, resident, or medical student working on a project involving sexual and gender minority populations and #GI/#liver health? Apply for a Rainbows in Gastroenterology Travel Award!
🏆 Up to 3 awards of💰1,000
📅 Apply by Sept. 11, 2026
🔗 lnkd.in/g28nF_vQ
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Replying to @ebtapper
Nice foreshadowing. Soon to come thanks to NLP tools we’ve developed for data extraction and will be making portable ovid.com/jnls/hepcomm/fullte…
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The UN recently announced a new UN political declaration on HIV/AIDS, setting out Member States’ commitments to integrating hepatitis programmes into HIV services, including by:
•Promoting and delivering integrated prevention, treatment and care
•Scaling up triple elimination programmes
•Ensuring access to stigma- and discrimination-free services
The @Hep_Alliance has summarised the key items from the new political declaration and outlined how it can be used by advocates to hold their governments accountable; implementing its commitments and eliminating both diseases as public health threats.
Read our summary here: worldhepatitisalliance.org/n…
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Most infected 🦠 people do not know they are living with #hepatitisB, which means they can spread it unknowingly.
‼️ Protect yourself and your loved ones, get vaccinated for hepatitis B today!
#Vaccine #NIAM



































