About me

Alejandro Forner, MD, earned his medical degree at Universidad Miguel Hernández, Alicante, Spain, in June 1999, obtaining the Extraordinary Licensure Award for the best medical school academic expedient. He is board certified in gastroenterology and hepatology through the Liver and Gastroenterology Unit, Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, where he worked from 2001 to 2005. Since 2005, he has worked in the Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer (BCLC) Group. Currently, he is Consultor-1 of Hepatology at the Liver Unit of the Hospital Clinic and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Barcelona. Dr. Forner’s clinical activity is focused on the care of patients with cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). His investigational fields are the early diagnosis of HCC (on whi