Andrea Schlegel, MD - Following her medical degree, Andrea obtained training from the surgical Department of Prof. Pierre-Alain Clavien at University Hospital Zurich. Here her personal commitment to an academic career in the field of transplantation surgery emerged. Her research focus is on organ allocation and the development of new preservation techniques. Since 2016, she has been working as a Senior Clinical Fellow in liver transplantation and HPB surgery at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, UK.

Peri Kocabayoglu, MD - Peri graduated magna cum laude as a medical doctor from the University of Duisburg-Essen Medical School, Germany, in 2007, after which she commenced her surgical training at the Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery at the University Hospital Essen. She was awarded a research fellowship by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and completed her postdoctoral training from 2010-2013 at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, USA, investigating the role of Hepatic Stellate Cells during liver regeneration and cancer. Her main areas of research are organ preservation through machine perfusion as well as the contribution of non-parenchymal cells to tumor recurrence following liver transplantation.

Karen Keung, MD - Karen developed a strong interest in transplant medicine during her clinical nephrology training at Westmead Hospital in Sydney, Australia. Clinical patient care is her passion, but her curiosity towards science in transplantation spurred her onto a full time PhD after she completed her fellowship in 2015, under the supervision of Philip O’Connell and Germaine Wong. Recently she spent a year in New York collaborating with Barbara Murphy’s team at Mount Sinai Hospital. Her current focus is on molecules identified from large scale transcriptome expression profiling studies and their role in causing/predicting allograft injury.

Joel T. Adler, MD, MPH - Joel is currently a chief resident in general surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston, USA). He will begin a fellowship in abdominal organ transplantation at the University of Wisconsin (Madison, USA) in August 2017. His research involves organ allocation policy, long-term outcomes after living kidney and liver donation, and the role of geography and economics in access to transplant care. He is also interested in the role of social media in disseminating research and policy and can be found on Twitter @joeladler.

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Peter Reese
Transplant Nephrologist and Epidemiologist
Associate Professor of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Philadelphia, PA, USA

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Elmi Muller, M.B., Ch.B, M.Med
(Committee Chair) Head of Transplant Unit at Groote Schuur Hospital and Transplant Surgeon at University of Cape Town, South Africa

Jayme E. Locke, MD, MPH, FACS
Associate Professor of Surgery (Committee Co-Chair); Director, Transplant Analytics Informatics & Quality; Director, Incompatible Kidney Transplant Program; Director, HIV Transplant Program; Division of Transplantation; University of Alabama at Birmingham

Jose Camargo, MD,
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

Mario Fernández-Ruiz, MD
Unit of Infectious Diseases, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid

James Gardner, MD, PhD
Resident Physician, University of San Francisco in California

Fadi Issa, DPhil
Academic Clinical Lecturer in Plastic Surgery, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford

Arzu Oezcelik
Deputy Director of the Department of HPB and Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital of the Bilim University in Istanbul

Shailesh Raval
RF Coil Engineer, Department of Radiology, UPMC , Pittsburgh; PhD Candidate, Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh

Sanju Sobnach
General Surgery Resident, Trauma Centre, Groote Schuur Hospital and University of Cape Town

Steven Wisel
Resident, General Surgery, University of California, San Francisco

Germaine Wong
Transplant Nephrologist at Westmead Hospital / Associate Professor at the University of Sydney