Helen Hyosun

Hyosun Helen Han, MD is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at University of Southern California (USC). She has served as Medical Director of Living Donor Liver Transplantation Program for the past 9 years. Her newest role is Program Director of the Transplant Hepatology Fellowship Program. Dr. Han comes from the East Coast, training in Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology, and Transplant Hepatology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Carmen Vinaixa

Dr C. Vinaixa graduated in the faculty of Medicine at Valencia University, Spain, in 2006. She obtained her specialization in Gastroenterology and Hepatology at La Fe University Hospital in 2011. During this training period she developed a particular interest in the field of liver transplantation. She completed her training at the Centre Hépatobiliaire, Paul Brousse Hospital, Villejuif, France. She obtained the Diploma in Transplant Medicine of the European Board of Transplant Medicine in 2015.

Riad Salem

Riad Salem, MD MBA is Professor of Radiology, Surgery and Medicine, and System Vice-Chair, Image-Guided Therapy in the Department of Radiology at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois. He served as Section Chief of Interventional Radiology from June 2010-May 2025. He currently also System Vice-President, Operations, Interventional Services, for the Northwestern Memorial Healthcare system. He is a graduate of McGill University in Montreal, where he was recipient of the Wood Gold Medal, as well as the J Francis Award in Internal Medicine.

Bandar Aljudaibi

Dr. Bandar M. Al-Judaibi is a Professor of Medicine and Chairman of the Liver and Small Bowel Health Centre at King Faisal Special Hospital & Research Centre (KFSH&RC) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology, and Transplant Hepatology, and holds fellowships from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

Zahid M Vahora

A Pennsylvania native, Dr. Vahora is proud to return to his alma mater, The George Washington University, where he currently serves as the Medical Director of Liver Transplantation. He completed his internal medicine residency at Case Western Reserve University's MetroHealth Medical Center, followed by a hepatology fellowship at AdventHealth Transplant Institute (formerly Florida Hospital Transplant Institute) and a gastroenterology fellowship at East Carolina University / Vidant Medical Center.

David C Fipps

Dr. David C. Fipps, DO, is a transplant psychiatrist with subspecialty training in Consultation Liaison psychiatry and Addictions Psychiatry at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Embedded within the Mayo Clinic Transplant Center, he provides psychiatric consultation and psychosocial assessment for candidates and recipients of heart, lung, liver, kidney, and vascular composite allograft transplantation.

Arpit Amin

Arpit Amin, MD is an Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Division of Abdominal Transplant and Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and University Hospital in Newark, NJ.

Varvara (Varia) A Kirchner

Dr. Kirchner is an Associate Professor of Surgery in the Division of Abdominal Transplantation at Stanford University. Her clinical practice encompasses adult and pediatric liver and kidney transplantation from living and deceased donors, as well as hepato-pancreato-biliary surgery, with a particular focus on total pancreatectomy with islet auto-transplantation (TPIAT) for chronic pancreatitis.

Eran Shlomovitz

Dr. Shlomovitz is a minimally invasive surgeon, therapeutic endoscopist and interventional radiologist at the University Health Network in Toronto, Canada. He is an Associate Professor in both the Department of Surgery and Medical Imaging at the University of Toronto. His research concentrates on the development of hybrid therapeutic techniques with a specific interest in advanced image guidance.

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