Marion Peters graduated from Melbourne University Medical School, Australia in 1972. She trained in Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Immunology at St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne, University of Southern California and The National Institutes of Health. She is interested in the immunology of chronic liver diseases in particular viral and autoimmune hepatitis. She was Chief of Hepatology and Medical Director of Liver Transplantation at Washington University School of Medicine from 1985 - 1998. She is now Chief of Hepatology Research and Professor of Medicine at UCSF.