Maria Buti earned her medical degree at the University of Barcelona and her PhD in Internal Medicine at the University “Autónoma” de Barcelona, Spain. She is currently Professor of Medicine and consultant of Hepatology at the Hospital General Universitari Valle Hebron, Barcelona. Dr Buti has worked in viral hepatitis for the last 35 years, particularly in diagnosis and therapy of hepatitis B , C anD. She has published more than 500 papers the field of liver disease, with numerous papers and contributions to books. She also has a large experience in clinical trials
Dr Buti was president of the Spanish Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, and an active member of EASL, AASLD and various other professional societies
Currently she is the chair of Public Health at EASL and associate editor of Journal of Hepatology..