Michelle T. Long, MD, MSc
Associate Professor, Medicine
Biography
Michelle T. Long, MD, MSc is a physician-scientist with an expertise in Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Boston University. She completed her clinical training at Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston Medical Center. Dr. Long is the Director of the NAFLD Research Center and the Director of Clinical Research for the Section of Gastroenterology and Hepatology. Her clinical and research interests center on the relationship between NAFLD and cardiovascular disease. Dr. Long is primarily interested in patient-oriented research investigating fibrosis and inflammation in patients with NAFLD and in imaging and risk stratification strategies for hepatic fibrosis. Dr. Long has projects at Boston Medical Center and at the Framingham Heart Study where she is the PI of a study evaluating the prevalence and risk factors for liver fat (steatosis) and fibrosis. In Framingham, she is investigating the clinical and genetic correlates of hepatic steatosis and fibrosis as measured by transient elastography. Dr. Long receives research funding from the NIH (NIDDK), Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Gilead Sciences, Echosens Corporation, and Boston University. She has expertise in epidemiology, visceral fat, liver imaging including computed tomography, ultrasound, and transient elastography. Dr. Long is also a clinical hepatologist and endoscopist.
Dr. Long is additionally interested in novel therapeutics for NAFLD and Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and runs the clinical trials program for the NAFLD Research Center.
Her other research interests include alcohol-related liver disease, hepatitis C, outcomes in end-stage liver disease/cirrhosis.
Other Positions
- Associate Professor, Gastroenterology, Medicine, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
- Investigator, Framingham Heart Study
- Member, Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research, Boston University
- Full Member, Boston Nutrition Obesity Research Center, Boston University Medical Center
Education
- Tufts University School of Medicine, MD
- Boston University School of Public Health, MSc
- Middlebury College, BA
Publications
- Published on 2/11/2025
Fuster D, So-Armah K, Cheng DM, Blokhina E, Patts G, Lioznov D, Gnatienko N, Long MT, Freiberg MS, Tindle H, Samet JH. Is There an Association Between Cigarette Smoking and Advanced Liver Fibrosis in Smokers with HIV, Heavy Drinking and High Prevalence of HCV? J Clin Med. 2025 Feb 11; 14(4). PMID: 40004700.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 1/27/2025
Sun N, Prescott B, Ma J, Xanthakis V, Quatromoni PA, Long MT, Walker ME. The cross-sectional association between ultra-processed food intake and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease. Clin Nutr ESPEN. 2025 Apr; 66:215-220. PMID: 39880205.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 1/1/2025
Florea VV, Gajjar P, Huang S, Tang J, Zhao S, Davenport M, Mi MY, Haff M, Zhang X, Miller PE, Vasan RS, Liu CT, Lewis GD, Shah RV, Long MT, Nayor M. Hepatic Steatosis and Fibrosis, Cardiorespiratory Fitness, and Metabolic Mediators in the Community. Liver Int. 2025 Jan; 45(1):e16147. PMID: 39673712.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 11/14/2024
Feng G, Targher G, Byrne CD, Yilmaz Y, Wai-Sun Wong V, Adithya Lesmana CR, Adams LA, Boursier J, Papatheodoridis G, El-Kassas M, Méndez-Sánchez N, Sookoian S, Castera L, Chan WK, Ye F, Treeprasertsuk S, Cortez-Pinto H, Yu HH, Kim W, Romero-Gómez M, Nakajima A, Win KM, Kim SU, Holleboom AG, Sebastiani G, Ocama P, Ryan JD, Lup?or-Platon M, Ghazinyan H, Al-Mahtab M, Hamid S, Perera N, Alswat KA, Pan Q, Long MT, Isakov V, Mi M, Arrese M, Sanyal AJ, Sarin SK, Leite NC, Valenti L, Newsome PN, Hagström H, Petta S, Yki-Järvinen H, Schattenberg JM, Castellanos Fernández MI, Leclercq IA, Aghayeva G, Elzouki AN, Tumi A, Sharara AI, Labidi A, Sanai FM, Matar K, Al-Mattooq M, Akroush MW, Benazzouz M, Debzi N, Alkhatry M, Barakat S, Al-Busafi SA, Rwegasha J, Yang W, Adwoa A, Opio CK, Sotoudeheian M, Wong YJ, George J, Zheng MH. Global burden of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease, 2010 to 2021. JHEP Rep. 2025 Mar; 7(3):101271. PMID: 39980749.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 10/16/2024
Yiannakou I, Long MT, Jacques PF, Beiser A, Pickering RT, Moore LL. Eggs, Dietary Choline, and Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in the Framingham Heart Study. J Nutr. 2025 Mar; 155(3):923-935. PMID: 39424072.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 6/14/2024
Alanaeme CJ, Ghazi L, Akinyelure OP, Wen Y, Christenson A, Poudel B, Dooley EE, Chen L, Hardy ST, Foti K, Bowling CB, Long MT, Colantonio LD, Muntner P. Trends in the Prevalence of Multiple Chronic Conditions Among US Adults With Hypertension From 1999-2000 Through 2017-2020. Am J Hypertens. 2024 Jun 14; 37(7):493-502. PMID: 38576398.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 6/9/2024
Sun N, Prescott B, Ma J, Mohanty A, Long MT, Walker ME. Prevalence of Steatotic Liver Disease Subtypes and Association With Metabolic Risk Factors in the Framingham Heart Study. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2024 Nov; 22(11):2330-2333. PMID: 38857746.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 5/29/2024
Niezen S, Goyes D, Vipani A, Yang JD, Ayoub WS, Kuo A, Long MT, Trivedi HD. Food Insecurity in Hispanic Populations Is Associated with an Increased Risk of Hepatic Steatosis: A Nationally Representative Study. J Clin Med. 2024 May 29; 13(11). PMID: 38892917.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 5/16/2024
Cooper LL, Prescott BR, Xanthakis V, Benjamin EJ, Vasan RS, Hamburg NM, Long MT, Mitchell GF. Association of Aortic Stiffness and Pressure Pulsatility With Noninvasive Estimates of Hepatic Steatosis and Fibrosis: The Framingham Heart Study. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2024 Jul; 44(7):1704-1715. PMID: 38752348.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 1/5/2024
Fantasia KL, Austad K, Mohanty A, Long MT, Walkey A, Drainoni ML. Safety-Net Primary Care and Endocrinology Clinicians' Knowledge and Perspectives on Screening for Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: A Mixed-Methods Evaluation. Endocr Pract. 2024 Mar; 30(3):270-277. PMID: 38184239.
Read at: PubMed
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