Prof. Manuela Merli: applying knowledge into practice is important for medical students

Prof. Manuela Merli (Figure 1) is Associate Professor at the Department of Clinical Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. She’s a member of many prestigious associations, including European Association for the Study of Liver Disease, Italian Association for the Study of the Liver, Italian Society of Gastroenterology, European Society of Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition and Italian Society for Transplant Organs. Prof. Merli’s main research interests are in the fields of liver cirrhosis, pathogenesis and treatment of portal hypertension and nutrition and metabolic abnormalities in patients with chronic liver disease.