Helen Jarvis, MD

Biography

Dr. Helen Jarvis is a general medical practitioner (GP) with a specialist interest in liver disease. She is researching the development of primary care pathways to better detect and manage liver disease in the community as part of a National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) clinical doctoral research fellowship. She has a particular interest in liver disease as part of the wider management of cardiometabolic risk and pathway implementation challenges in the primary care setting.

As well as her own doctoral research, Dr. Jarvis is co-lead on an NIHR applied research collaborative (ARC) funded study researching the implementation of clinical decision support tools to aid early detection of viral hepatitis and HIV in the primary care setting. She is also the primary care lead co-investigator on a regional cohort study to develop the optimum non-invasive testing strategy for the early detection of chronic liver disease.

She sits as the primary care lead on the UK Liver Alliance (and formerly the UK Lancet Liver Commission), is a clinical advisor and liver champion for the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), and is a clinical advisor to the British Liver Trust - the largest liver disease charity in the UK.

Helen Jarvis
Position
Newcastle University, United Kingdom