Medical Director, Co-Director, Associate Professor

Anjana Pillai, MD, is a board-certified gastroenterologist and transplant hepatologist who specializes in the management of chronic liver diseases. Dr. Pillai is the medical director of the multidisciplinary liver tumor program, which encompasses multiple specialists with expertise in benign and malignant tumors of the liver. As part of the University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center, she works with the cancer center to provide individualized treatment options to her patients.

Dr. Pillai is also an active researcher with a focus on hepatocellular carcinoma and cholangiocarcinoma. Additionally, she works with colleagues from the liver tumor program to deliver a robust research infrastructure that offers multiple phase II and III trials for individualized treatment plans for each patient.