A professor of medicine and an expert in liver disease, Dr. Nelson’s record of academic achievement includes more than $100 million in research funding, more than 200 publications and multiple leadership roles in his area of expertise. He has co-authored the U.S. treatment guidelines for hepatitis C, the Clinical Pharmacogenetics Implementation Consortium guidelines for the use of genomic-guided hepatitis C (HCV) therapy, and represented the United States on the World Health Organization HCV guidelines committee. As a principal investigator on basic science, translational research and training grants, he developed an international real world data network (HCV-TARGET), a collaboration between clinician investigators, the pharmaceutical industry and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This transformed drug development pathways and led to faster and safer development of HCV therapies, resulting in his recognition by the FDA with the Regulatory Science Excellence Honor in 2018. In 2013, he was recognized for one of the Clinical Research Forum’s Top 10 Clinical Research Achievements and in 2014, he received the Association of American Medical Colleges’ Learning Health System Research Champion Award. He has continuously been recognized as one of America’s top physicians/gastroenterologists and has been the recipient of multiple exemplary teaching awards, an outstanding alumnus award from his medical school, a UF Research Foundation Professorship Award and a UF Term Professorship Award.