Professor Jia-Horng Kao is Director and Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University. He is also the President of ACT-HBV and an Attending Physician at the Department of Internal Medicine and the Division of Gastroenterology at the National Taiwan University Hospital. Professor Kao graduated from the College of Medicine National Taiwan University in 1987 and received his Ph.D. from the Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine at the university in 1994. Professor Kao has been involved in hepatitis research for over 2 decades. He was the president of the Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver in 2012, Director of the Hepatitis Research Center at the National Taiwan University Hospital from 2003 to 2009, Secretary General of the Taiwan Association for the Study of the Liver between 2004 and 2005, and Vice Secretary General of the Gastroenterological Society of Taiwan from 2003 to 2006.

 Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Journal of Hepatology, American Journal of Gastroenterology, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Journal of Infectious Diseases, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Journal of Viral Hepatitis, Journal of Medical Virology and Kidney International. Professor Kao also serves as the trustee of JGH foundation and the member of WGO Hepatology Interest Group.