Loretta Jophlin, M.D., Ph.D.

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Loretta Jophlin, M.D., Ph.D.

Loretta Jophlin, M.D., Ph.D., completed both her medical and Ph.D. degrees at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in Charleston, South Carolina. She did her internal medicine residency at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. She completed her gastroenterology and hepatology fellowship at MUSC, where she was also awarded an NIH F32 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award for postdoctoral research in liver disease and cirrhosis. In 2017, she did an advanced fellowship in transplant hepatology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota and practiced for a couple of years while continuing laboratory research aimed at cirrhosis. She joined the faculty at the University of Louisville in December 2020 to practice clinical hepatology and to start her research laboratory. Also part of UofL Physicians – Digestive & Liver Health, she works alongside Dr. Craig McClain and Dr. Matt Cave who are internationally renowned physician-scientists studying alcohol and environmental liver diseases. Her chief interests include caring for individuals with liver problems ranging from abnormal liver function tests to decompensated cirrhosis, early liver transplantation for acute alcohol-related hepatitis, clinical trials and scientific research on mechanisms of fatty liver disease and cirrhosis.