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Hepatitis is inflammation in the liver, which can occur due to viral infections or other health problems. The types of hepatitis differ in terms of how you get them, their severity, and how to prevent them. When considered together, hepatitis B and C are the leading global cause of liver scarring, liver cancer, and deaths linked to viral hepatitis.

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Jonathan G. Stine, MD, MSc, FACP

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Jonathan Stine, MD, MSc, FACP, is an associate professor of medicine and public health science at Penn State in State College, Pennsylvania.

As an internationally recognized liver expert with a research and clinical focus on metabolic dysfunction–associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) and exercise, he has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, including multinational consensus guidelines.

Dr. Stine is the recipient of multiple research grants and awards from the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the American Cancer Society, and has maintained continuous funding from the National Institutes of Health since 2018.

Stine is the MASLD consultant to the American College of Sports Medicine’s “Exercise is Medicine” initiative, and recently co-chaired the International Roundtable on MASLD and Physical Activity for ACSM. He serves as the Fatty Liver Program director as well as the Liver Center Research director for Penn State.

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Resources
  1. Hepatitis. World Health Organization.