Elizabeth Goacher is a Physician Assistant with Duke University Medical Center, Department of Medicine, Gastroenterology Division, Duke Liver Center, April 2001 to the present. Her pronouns are she/her. She is currently engaged in full time clinical practice in Hepatology. Her clinical work encompasses the full spectrum of liver disease patient population, from early stage disease to end of life, with a particular interest in portal hypertension. She served as Team Lead for the Duke Division of Gastroenterology Advanced Practice group of 25 Advanced Practice Providers 2014-2023. She is also lecturer and preceptor at Duke University School of Medicine Physician Assistant Program. Elizabeth graduated from the Duke University School of Medicine Physician Assistant Program in 1998 after earning her Bachelor of Arts from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1991. She is past Chair of the Hepatology Associates Committee of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and was a member of the inaugural class of Associate Fellows of AASLD in 2020. When she is not at work, she maintains a health boundary from technology (aka EPIC) and spends as much time outdoors as possible. When asked to design and implement her dream job, she would own and operate a cocktail and tapas venue while instructing fitness classes on a large piece of lakeside property in North Carolina alongside her canine rescue, foster and retraining agency.