Brett E. Fortune, MD, MS

Brett E. Fortune, MD, MSc, is Medical Director, Liver Transplant Program, and Associate Professor, Medicine at Montefiore Einstein. His clinical focus centers on providing care for patients with advanced liver disease and those who need or have received liver transplantation.

After obtaining his Bachelor of Science in biological sciences in 1999 from North Carolina State University, Dr. Fortune earned his Doctor of Medicine from Wake Forest University School of Medicine in 2004. He then completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at The Ohio State University Medical Center in 2007. After this, he participated in a gastroenterology fellowship at the University of Colorado Denver, where he also earned his Master of Science in clinical sciences, completing both in 2011. Dr. Fortune remained there for another year to participate in a transplant hepatology fellowship, which he completed in 2012.

Dr. Fortune’s research focuses on clinical outcomes related to cirrhosis and portal hypertension complications as well as quality improvement in the care of patients with cirrhosis or those who have received a liver transplant. His work has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals or books. He is currently Associate Editor for Liver Transplantation and Liver Section Editor for Digestive Disease Interventions, and has sat on the editorial board for Hepatology.

Dr. Fortune is board certified in Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology and Transplant Hepatology by the American Board of Internal Medicine. He is a member of many professional organizations, such as the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD), the American Gastroenterology Association (AGA) and the American Liver Foundation. Dr. Fortune won the Kushlan Junior Faculty Award, Section of Digestive Diseases in 2015 and the Howard M. Spiro Digestive Disease Fellowship Teaching Award in 2016 from Yale School of Medicine.