Alan Mullen, MD, PhD
Alan Mullen, MD, PhD
About Alan Mullen, MD, PhD
Alan Mullen, MD, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Assistant in Medicine at MGH and a member of the MGH Liver Center.
Dr. Mullen's clinical interests are focused on treating patients with chronic liver disease including patients who have progressed to liver fibrosis and cirrhosis. In his practice he cares for patients with conditions including hepatitis A, hepatitis B and hepatitis C, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), autoimmune hepatitis, cholestatic liver disease including primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) and primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) as well as inherited conditions including hemochromatosis and alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency. He also evaluates patients for abnormal liver function tests and abnormal liver imaging. Dr Mullen also performs endoscopies including diagnostic and therapeutic upper endoscopies and colonoscopies.
Departments, Centers, & Programs:
Clinical Interests:
- Liver fibrosis
- Chronic liver disease
- Viral hepatitis
- Abnormal Liver Function Tests
- Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
Treats:
- Adult
Locations
Gastroenterology Associates
55 Fruit Street
Boston, MA 02114-2696
Phone: 617-724-6006
Fax: 617-724-6832
Medical Education
- MD, PhD, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
- Residency, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Fellowship, Massachusetts General Hospital
American Board Certifications
- Gastroenterology, American Board of Internal Medicine
Accepted Insurance Plans
- Aetna Health Inc.
- AllWays Health (NHP) - ACD
- AllWays Health (NHP) - PBO
- Beech Street
- Blue Cross Blue Shield - Blue Care 65
- Blue Cross Blue Shield - Indemnity
- Blue Cross Blue Shield - Managed Care
- Blue Cross Blue Shield - Partners Plus
- BMC HealthNet Mass Health MCO/ACO
- Cigna (PAL #'s)
- Commonwealth Care Alliance
- Fallon Community HealthCare
- Great-West Healthcare (formally One Health Plan)
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Plan - ACD
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Plan - PBO
- Health Care Value Management (HCVM)
- Humana/Choice Care PPO
- Maine Community Health Options (MCHO)
- MassHealth
- Medicare
- Medicare - ACD
- OSW - Maine
- OSW - New Hampshire
- OSW - Rhode Island
- OSW - Vermont
- Private Health Care Systems (PHCS)
- Railroad Medicare
- Senior Whole Health
- TriCare
- Tufts Health Plan
- Unicare
- United Healthcare (non-HMO) - ACD
- United Healthcare (non-HMO) - PBO
- Well Sense Pediatrics
Note: This provider may accept more insurance plans than shown; please call the practice to find out if your plan is accepted.
Research
We are just beginning to understand the extent to which long noncoding RNAs regulate human development and disease. My laboratory focuses on understanding how long noncoding RNAs regulate embryonic stem cell differentiation and how they regulate the development of liver fibrosis. We use a combined approach of genomics, genetics, and biochemistry to understand how long noncoding RNAs regulate the earliest stages in differentiation towards the gastrointestinal system and how long noncoding RNAs regulate the function of hepatic stellate cells, the primary cell type responsible for liver fibrosis.
Research link:
mullenlab.mgh.harvard.edu