Locations and Appointments
New Patients
ColumbiaDoctors - Tarrytown
CUIMC/Presbyterian Hospital and Vanderbilt Clinic
Insurances Accepted
Before your appointment, please contact the doctor's office or your insurance provider to verify that your insurance is accepted. This list of insurances can change, and the insurance plans listed may not be accepted at all office locations for this provider.
About Gene Y Im, MD, FAASLD
Dr. Gene Im is a transplant hepatologist and the Director of the Alcohol-associated Liver Disease Program at Columbia known as ADAPT (Advanced inter-Disciplinary Alcohol liver Program and Treatment), a patient-centered, integrated care and research program for patients with alcohol-associated liver disease (ALD). ADAPT is one of only a few integrated ALD clinics in the country.
Dr. Im is an internationally recognized expert in ALD, including alcohol-associated hepatitis and liver transplantation based on his clinical focus and research achievements. He has co-authored several practice-changing articles, including the 2019 ALD Practice Guidance from AASLD, the 2024 MetALD Expert Position Statement, and the first experience of early liver transplantation for alcohol-associated hepatitis in North America.
Currently, he is the Vice-Chair of the AASLD ALD Special Interest Group and serves on the Editorial Board for the journal Liver Transplantation. Dr. Im is also the founder of ALD-ALLY (Alcohol-associated Liver Disease patients deserve ALcohol LiteracY), an annual conference focused on actionable initiatives for advancing the science and care of patients with alcohol use disorder and ALD (www.ald-ally.com)
Dr. Im is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation and Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases at Columbia University.
Board Certifications
- Gastroenterology
- Transplant Hepatology
Languages Spoken
- English
Specialties & Expertise
- Autoimmune Hepatitis
- Cirrhosis
- Hepatitis
- Liver Cancer
- Liver Disease
- Liver Transplantation
- Portal Hypertension
- Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis
- Viral Hepatitis
Education
- Medical School: New York Medical College
- Residency: NYU Langone Hospital - Long Island
- Fellowship: Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY
Leadership, Titles & Positions
- Assistant Professor of Medicine at CUIMC
- Director, Alcohol-associated Liver Disease Program (ADAPT)
Awards & Honors
- ELS Mentor, AASLD Emerging Liver Scholar, Jonathan Nahas, 2016
- Fellow of the AASLD, American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD), 2023
- Presidential Poster of Distinction, AASLD, The Liver Meeting 2023
- Presidential Poster of Distinction, AASLD, The Liver Meeting, 2013
- Specialty Attending of the Year Teaching Award, Mount Sinai Medical Center, 2014, 2016
- Young Investigator Award, Controversies in Transplantation, Breckenridge, CO, 2013
- Young Investigator Travel Award, AASLD, The Liver Meeting, 2013
- Director, Alcohol-associated Liver Disease Program (ADAPT)
