David Frank has been elected chair of the board at the American Liver Foundation (ALF) in Fairfield.
Frank has served as Vice Chair of ALF’s board since March 2025 and is the Senior Product Manager for Equities Cash & Derivatives at Wells Fargo Securities in NYC.
He replaces outgoing board chair, Emmanuel Thomas, MD, PhD, FAASLD, Tenured Professor, at the University of Miami School of Medicine in the Department of Pathology, who served for the past three years and was on the ALF Board of Directors for a total of 10 years.
ALF board chairs serve three consecutive one-year terms.
ALF has continued to thrive for the past five years under the leadership of Chief Executive Officer Lorraine Stiehl. Also elected to the board were Connie Deneweth, CPA (treasurer), and Anne Doyen, Esq. (Secretary).
Thomas led ALF through a period of unprecedented growth where he helped fund an historic $1.1M in support of cutting-edge research, formed a great partnership with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) aimed at increasing awareness of liver health through a dedicated Veterans Information Center on the ALF website, and created ALF’s Living Donor Network, the first national database for non-directed donors who wish to donate a part of their liver to transplant centers nationwide, according to a release.
Frank first became involved with ALF in 2014 after the loss of his beloved mother, Geraldine, at the age of 62, who had a brief but devastating six-week battle with late-stage metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH), formerly known as nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH).
Frank said in a release that his roles at ALF are in honor of his mother. He also helped to launch the Greater New York Associate Board of Young Professionals in 2017 and founded NASH AWARE, a global blog dedicated to educating the public about Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH).
Today, he writes a regular blog and frequently speaks at NASH conferences and International NASH Day events. In 2022, he officially joined ALF’s National Board of Directors.
