Dr. Gia Tyson is a native of New Orleans, Louisiana who attended college at Howard University, Harvard Medical School, Johns Hopkins for residency, Baylor for gastroenterology fellowship and Tulane for transplant hepatology. She is a practicing transplant hepatologist at Ochsner Health and director of hepatology for The Liver Center Ochsner Baton Rouge. Dr. Tyson started The Liver Center, which has brought advanced liver and transplant-related care to the region and beyond, servicing patients throughout the state of Louisiana. She is also a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at Louisiana State University where she supervises the residents and medical students in the liver disease clinic. At LSU she also lectures to the residents and medical students. Dr. Tyson utilizes her Master of Public Health degree and clinical expertise as the Clinical Network Specialist for the Louisiana Department of Health’s initiative to eliminate hepatitis C (HCV). The hepatitis C elimination initiative is one of the first of its kind in the United States, where a state is working toward eliminating hepatitis C as a public health threat. In this role she helps create training documents and provides training to primary providers around the state of Louisiana to treat hepatitis C. She has published multiple peer reviewed articles on hepatitis C, hepatitis B and hepatocellular carcinoma. Dr. Tyson is also the CEO and founder of Med School Admit (MSA), which helps undergraduate students become competitive medical school applicants. MSA has relationships with both LSU and Southern University to help those students succeed. She is the Executive Director of Med School Admit Cares, a nonprofit, that provides underrepresented students exposure to careers in medicine and financial support for their premedical journey. Outside of professional pursuits, Dr. Tyson maintains an active personal life as the mother of three children and in her spare time enjoys socializing with friends, tennis, movies, and endurance sports.