Xavier Forns, MD, graduated with a medical degree from the University of Barcelona in 1988 and completed his fellowship in Gastroenterology and Hepatology in the Liver Unit at the Hospital Clinic, Barcelona in 1993. He spent 4 years as a Visiting Scientist at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA working in the field hepatitis C virus. In 2000 Dr Forns joined the Liver Unit in Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, where he is now a senior consultant.
Dr Forns has acted as Associate Editor for the American Journal of Transplantation and Journal of Hepatology and serves as an editorial board member or reviewer for several other journals. He was part of the Governing Board of the European Association for the Study of the Liver (2005–2008), and Secretary of the Spanish Association for the Study of the Liver (2011-2013).
His main fields of research and practice are viral hepatitis and liver transplantation, where he has made some significant contributions in the field. Dr Forns has published more than 300 original manuscripts and review articles in the subject area.