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.

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.

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.

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.

I am a Professor of Medicine and Medical Director of the GI service line for the UPMC HS. I am a therapeutic endoscopist and have a continued translational research effort aimed at improving the diagnosis of pancreaticobiliary malignancy through molecular diagnostics.

Dr. Dhanasekaran is a physician scientist specializing in liver cancer research and patient care. Dr. Dhanasekaran completed her medical school training in India, and pursued her Internal Medicine residency at the University of Florida, Gainesville followed by Gastroenterology fellowship at Mayo Clinic, Rochester and Transplant Hepatology fellowship and PhD in Cancer Biology at Stanford University. Her clinical practice is mainly focused on liver cancer and she runs a clinic specifically for patients with liver masses. At Stanford, Dr.

Prasun K. Jalal, MD, is the Stan and Sue Partee Endowed Chair in Hepatology at Baylor College of Medicine. His clinical and research interests include liver transplantation, hepatocellular carcinoma, and MASH-related liver disease. He serves as Chair of the Education and Scholarship Committee of the International Liver Transplantation Society and leads NCI-, NIAAA-, and CPRIT-funded studies focused on early cancer detection, microbiome-based therapies, and biomarker-driven strategies in advanced liver disease.

Koji Hashimoto, M.D., Ph.D., is the Director of Liver Transplantation at the Cleveland Clinic Main Campus and Professor of Surgery at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. His areas of special interest include living donor liver transplantation, pediatric liver transplantation, liver transplantation using partial livers, liver malignancy, organ preservation, and transplant immunology.

Transplant Surgery, University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Juan G. Abraldes is a Transplant Hepatologist, Professor and Director of the Liver Unit at the University of Alberta.

He did his MD at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, and got his GI and hepatology training in Barcelona. He did a postdoctoral training at Yale University (2003–2004).