Jessie Torgersen, MD, MHS, MSCE

Dr. Jessie Torgersen is an Assistant Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and Epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. She is the Director of the Penn Center for Viral Hepatitis at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center where she provides care focused on acute and chronic liver diseases in people with HIV (PWH) and people without HIV (PWoH). Dr. Torgersen has served on the national American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases/Infectious Diseases Society Hepatitis C Guidance panel and is a current member of the ACTG Hepatitis Transformative Science Group. She is a Senior Scholar in the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics and an active investigator with the national Veterans Aging Cohort Study. She serves as Co-Director of the Aging and HIV Scientific Working Group in the Penn Center for AIDS Research. Dr. Torgersen’s research focuses on the clinical epidemiology of chronic viral hepatitis, hepatic steatosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma among PWH and PWoH. She has expertise in the application of artificial intelligence in clinical research, using natural language processing and deep learning methodologies to identify liver disease.