Dr. Hilscher is a Transplant Hepatologist and physician-scientist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. She has NIH funding with a K08 Career Development Award with which she investigates the mechanisms of portal hypertension. She has a particular research and clinical interest in vascular diseases of the liver including Fontan associated liver disease.
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.
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.
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.
Ryan Chadha, M.D., is a consultant and Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL. He completed his residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital and his fellowship in liver transplant anesthesiology at Columbia Presbyterian NYPH. Dr.
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.
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.
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.