For the last fourteen years Dr. Cordell has studied and specialized in auto-brewery syndrome. In 2017, she retired from being the Dean of Health Sciences at Panola College and formed the non-profit ABS advocacy organization and wrote the first modern book on auto-brewery syndrome. Barbara co-conducts research, authors papers, and consults with patients, providers, and lawyers. She welcomes suggestions, questions, and any ideas that will help us advocate for people with auto-brewery syndrome.

Michelle spends countless hours talking to patients who have or think they may have auto-brewery syndrome and their caregivers. She works around her full-time job hours to help everyone she can have the resources and information they need about ABS. Michelle ensures providers receive the latest testing and treatment information, equipping them for success. She earned her stripes by caring for her late husband, Danny as he struggled for years with ABS and other health issues. Michelle is our “Ask Abby”!

Not only is Joe a Registered Nurse but he is also an ABS survivor of six years of searching for answers with multiple doctors and tests. Finally, Dr. Justin McCarthy (now retired) diagnosed him and Joe got the treatment he needed. Joe was our “patient zero”.

Joe has been well from ABS for over 13 years and is very tuned in to the needs and struggles of patients. He helps raise funds and keeps the non-profit on track.

After medical school, Dr. Kanodia learned how stress could destroy a person’s health and that yeast overgrowth is the silent demon robbing thousands of people of their health. For the undiagnosed who had tried everything, he learned there were solutions. It was in this body of work that his patients began to get well, stay well, and live well. His mission became clear: dig for the root cause, identify it, treat it, and eliminate it.

On this journey, he has become an expert at diagnosing and treating ABS. He has treated dozens of patients with auto-brewery syndrome and has been a partner with our non-profit since day one. We are blessed to have him on our team!

Medical School: Northeast Ohio Medical University; Family Medicine Residency: Mayo Clinic; Fellowship: Harvard Medical School Complementary and Integrative Medicine Fellowship; Masters in Public Health: Harvard; Certified in Functional Medicine

https://kanodiamd.com/

Dr. Hsu is a physician scientist and hepatologist at the University of California San Diego and San Diego VA. She earned her MD and PhD degrees from UCSD, then went on to complete her internal medicine residency and gastroenterology fellowship.

Her research is focused on understanding the role of the gut microbiome in alcohol use disorder and liver diseases and her work is supported by the NIH/NIAAA and the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases Foundation.

Dr. Schnabl is a trained gastroenterologist and physician-scientist. He is Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine at the University of California San Diego and the founding Director of the NIH-supported San Diego Digestive Diseases Research Center (SDDRC). He earned his MD degree from the University of Freiburg in Germany. After finishing his residency in internal medicine, he completed a gastroenterology fellowship at Columbia University in New York City. His research focus is to understand the complex multi-directional interactions that occur between the gut microbiota and the liver. Dr. Schnabl has published over 230 papers and was listed by Thomson Reuters/Clarivate as one of the most Highly Cited Researchers (top 1%) in 2019, 2021-22. He received the Biocodex Microbiota Foundation Award in 2018, a MERIT Award from the NIH in 2021, a Senior Clinician Scientist Investigator Award from the Department of Veterans Affairs in 2021, and the Harrington Scholar-Innovator Award in 2022. He is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) and the Association of American Physicians (AAP). Dr. Schnabl is the principal investigator of a VA Merit Award, several NIH, foundation and industry-sponsored grants. He serves as Associate Editor for Journal of Hepatology.