I have 28 years of experience, and specialize in the field of liver cancer with specific knowledge in the areas of chronic hepatitis B and, chronic hepatitis C infections and liver cancer. I have published on such topics as how these viruses cause cancer, models that could help us understand the pathogenesis of these infections and conducted projects on preclinical drug development. I have also been director of a clinical diagnostic laboratory in microbiology for about 10 years and am familiar with diagnostic molecular pathology in this area.