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Mark Czaja MD, FAASLD

  • Department of Medicine
    Adjunct Professor
  • (404) 727-4842
  • Emory University School of Medicine
    Medicine
    615 Michael St. Suite 201
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Overview

Mark J. Czaja, MD, FAASLD is a professor of medicine in the Division of Digestive Diseases at the Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Czaja completed his undergraduate education at Yale University and received an MD from Columbia University. He completed internal medicine clinical training at Case Western Reserve University and gastroenterology/hepatology clinical training at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. After doing postdoctoral research on hepatic fibrosis at Einstein, Dr. Czaja joined their faculty, where he remained for a number of years before assuming his present position at Emory.

Dr. Czaja's National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded research attempts to understand the mechanisms of liver injury and hepatocyte death in order to develop new therapeutic approaches to prevent human liver failure. These investigations have defined signal transduction pathways that mediate liver injury from inflammatory factors such as the cytokine tumor necrosis factor and oxidants during toxin-induced liver injury, and regulate the development of steatosis and the progression to steatohepatitis in fatty liver disease. His laboratory first described the metabolism of endogenous cellular lipids through the lysosomal pathway of autophagy, and additional work in his laboratory has delineated functions for autophagy in both hepatocytes and macrophages that limit liver injury.

Dr. Czaja has held numerous positions, including associate editor and editorial board member of major scientific journals as well as chair or member on NIH study sections and national committees. He has served on the Governing Board of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases. He is an elected member of the Association of American Physicians as well as a Fellow of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases.

Academic Appointment

  • Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine - Division of Digestive Diseases, Emory University

Education

Degrees

  • MD from Columbia University
  • BA from Yale University

Research

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