Associate Professor Martin Weltman
MBBCh PhD FRACP FAChAM
Associate Professor Medicine
Medicine, Nepean Clinical School
Telephone | +61 4734 3332 |
Fax | 47343145 |
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Research interests
Associate Professor Weltman has several areas of research interest including
-Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) (natural history, prognostic indicators, pathogenetic mechanisms and therapies)
-Alcoholic hepatitis
-Clinical trials and therapy for chronic hepatitis C and B infection
-Genomics for HCV
-Therapies for inflammatory bowel disease and natural history of inflammatory bowel disease
-Interventions for Barrett's oesophagus
-Epidemiology and natural hisrtory of functional dyspepsia and irritable bowel syndrome
-Autoimmune liver disease and primary biliary cholangitis
-Novel Drug Trials: Hepatitis B and C, Crohn's disease and Ulcerative colitis, Primary Biliary Cirrhosis, Liver cancer, constipation, IBS, Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
Teaching and supervision
Liver disease
Associations
European Associaton for the Study of the Liver
Gastroenterological Society of Australia
Inflammatory Bowel disease Australia
Australian Liver Association (excutive committee)
Royal Australasian College of Physicians
Themes
Obesity, Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease; Infection and Immunological Conditions; Neurosciences and Mental Health
Keywords
Hepatitis; Obesity & overweight; Gastroenterology; Hepatology
Clinical Specialty
Addiction Medicine
Selected grants
2010
- COA project in Liver Research; Weltman M; Nepean Medical Research Foundation/Project Grant.
Selected publications
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Gastroenterology and Hepatology: a clinical handbook (Elsevier, 2008)
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