Tom Hemming Karlsen: hepatologist with a public health message

Abstract

“The liver is a tough organ. It takes more than one toxin, one injury, one kind of disease to break its resilience”, says Tom Hemming Karlsen, Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Oslo, Norway. But right now the livers of many Europeans are facing a range of threats, including high alcohol consumption and increasing obesity. The Lancet Liver Commission, organised jointly with the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL), makes ten actionable recommendations to protect liver health and prevent liver disease, half of them focused on health policy.