Ockner, Robert K.

Robert K. Ockner, M.D., Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, graduated from Pomona College and Harvard Medical School, and completed clinical and research training at Boston City Hospital, National Institutes of Health, and Massachusetts General Hospital. He is former Director of the UCSF Division of Gastroenterology and the UCSF Liver Center, and served as Editor of Gastroenterology, Co-Editor of Progress in Liver Diseases, and Associate Editor of the Journal of Lipid Research. He and colleagues initially identified and characterized the cytosolic fatty acid b...