Emerging Liver Advanced Practice Provider (APP) Program
Forecasted
Emerging Liver Advanced Practice Provider (APP) Program supports new-to-liver providers and APP students through hepatology education, mentoring, and leadership development to strengthen specialized liver care.
Funder: AASLD Foundation
Due Dates (Anticipated): April 2027 (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: Two-year program with two sponsored Liver Meeting trips, a $400 meals/incidental stipend, membership, and journal subscriptions
Summary: Supports early-career and new-to-liver advanced practice providers through hepatology education, mentoring, leadership development, and meeting travel.
Key Information: Applicants must reside in the US, Canada, or Mexico and commit to full participation throughout the two-year program.
Description
The AASLD Foundation’s Emerging Liver Advanced Practice Provider program is a travel and career-development opportunity designed to increase the number of APPs trained to provide specialized care for patients with liver disease. It serves early-career and new-to-liver providers and graduate students in accredited APP degree programs.
Participants attend two consecutive editions of The Liver Meeting, with access to scientific programming and dedicated educational and networking events. Between meetings, the program combines clinical hepatology education, mentoring, journal discussions, and leadership activities to strengthen independent patient care, critical thinking, and communication within healthcare teams. A practice-improvement capstone develops an evidence-based proposal addressing a clinical problem in the participant’s own practice. Health equity, access to care in underserved communities, and diversity in the hepatology workforce are program priorities.
