Katherine Sweeny

Dr. Katherine Sweeny serves as Associate Director of the Fatty Liver Interdisciplinary Program and Attending Physician in the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition at Boston Children's Hospital. She holds an academic appointment as Instructor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.

Her clinical and research expertise focuses on:

• Management of complex pediatric liver diseases
• Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease comorbidities
• Liver transplantation outcomes
• Metabolic complications in hepatology

Dr. Sweeny's recent publications examine neuropsychiatric comorbidities in pediatric NAFLD patients and complications following liver transplantation. Her work advances understanding of extrahepatic manifestations in childhood liver diseases.