Dr. Richard Manch currently serves as Chief of Hepatology with Arizona Liver Health, which he helped establish in 2017. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology, and Transplant Hepatology. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease, the American College of Physicians, the American College of Gastroenterology, the American College of Physician Executives, and is Professor of Medicine with the University of Arizona and Creighton University.

Dr. Manch has been instrumental in developing two of the liver transplant programs in Arizona and has developed an extensive network of liver disease and outreach clinics throughout the state. Dr. Manch has also developed innovative ways to provide specialized Hepatology consultation by teleconferencing with primary providers in medically unserved areas. He was honored by the American Liver Foundation in 2020 with the Healthcare Visionary Lifetime Achievement Award. While at Banner University Medical Center Phoenix, he instituted training
programs both in Gastroenterology and Hepatology and his many former trainees are practicing throughout both the state of Arizona as well as the US.

His areas of interest include viral hepatitis, liver cancer, fatty liver disease, and liver
transplantation.