A/Prof Jacinta Holmes

 A/Prof Jacinta Holmes is a full-time senior staff specialist in the Gastroenterology Department at St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne and Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne.  

Jacinta completed her PhD in host and immunologic determinants associated with chronic hepatitis C. Following this, she travelled to Boston, USA, where she undertook a post-doctoral fellowship in the Liver Centre at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in the fields of viral hepatitis, liver cancer and hepatic fibrosis.   

Jacinta has major clinical and research interests in all liver diseases, and is a principal investigator for multi-national clinical trials investigating new therapies for patients with liver disease.