Behavioral Resources & Intervention through Digital Group Education (Bridge): An Embedded Group Telehealth Program Builds Self-Efficacy in Liver Transplant (Lt)

Poster Category: 
Innovation
Lisa Catalli
MSN, NP-C
UCSF School of Nursing

Lisa Catalli is an outpatient Nurse Practitioner at the UCSF Hepatology and Liver Transplant Departments and volunteer assistant clinical professor in the UCSF School of Nursing where she completed her master’s degree in nursing in 1995. Her clinical role has traversed the liver disease spectrum, including the management of patients with cirrhosis, and adult liver transplant candidates and recipients with viral hepatitis and metabolic dysfunction associated steatotic liver disease(MASLD). Lisa has keen interest in the integration of behavioral health, peer-support empowerment programs and the utilization of telemedicine to expand access to high quality, equitable health care. She is key clinical faculty for Project ECHO at UCSF and is committed to serving vulnerable populations. She co-founded BRIDGE to Liver Health, a video conferencing-enabled, shared medical appointment program to longitudinally interface with hepatology patients to improve liver health outcomes. In 2021 and 2023, she was awarded ASTS Advanced Transplant Provider Research Grants to study the impact of this embedded group clinical program and is principal investigator of the BRIDGE research study at UCSF.