Speaker

Wojciech G Polak, MD, PhD

Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam

Wojciech G Polak, MD, PhD

Biography

Wojciech (Wojtek) G. Polak, MD, PhD, FEBS, is a liver transplant and hepatobiliary surgeon and Surgical Director of the Liver Transplant Program at Erasmus MC University Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. His principal clinical and scientific interests include liver transplantation, donation after circulatory death, organ preservation and machine perfusion, and hepatobiliary surgery. He is the author or co-author of more than 200 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals and has an H-index of 42.Dr. Polak is currently President of the International Liver Transplantation Society (ILTS) and he has held several leadership positions in major European and international professional societies. He served as Vice-Chair of the Education Committee of the European Society for Organ Transplantation (ESOT), Chair of the European Liver and Intestine Transplant Association (ELITA), and Chair of the Education Committee of the European-African Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (E-AHPBA). He has also held leadership roles within the Division of Transplant Surgery of the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS). In 2015, he was awarded the Honorary Diploma of the European Board of Surgery (UEMS) in Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery.

Sessions

8:00 AM - 4:45 PM

Convention Center - Bluebird Ballroom 3ABC

American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society Transplant Course, Parts 1–5 (Ticketed)

Peter Abt, MD | Moderator,

Ramesh Batra, MD, MA(Bioethics), FRCS | Moderator,

Valeria M Mas, PhD | Presenter,

Babak J Orandi, MD, PhD, MSc | Presenter,

Swaytha R Ganesh, MD | Presenter,

Tarunjeet Klair, MBBS | Presenter,

David C Fipps, DO | Presenter,

Saad Alghamdi, MD | Presenter,

Eran Shlomovitz, MD | Presenter,

Varvara (Varia) A Kirchner, MD | Moderator,

Arpit Amin, MD MPH | Moderator,

Renumathy Dhanasekaran, MD, PhD | Presenter,

Adam Slivka, MD,PhD | Presenter,

Koji Hashimoto, MD, PhD | Presenter,

Mark Ghobrial, MD, PhD | Presenter,

Prasun K Jalal, MD, FRCP (UK), FAASLD, FACG, FASGE, AGAF | Moderator,

Helen Hyosun, MD | Moderator,

Carmen Vinaixa, MD, PhD | Presenter,

Jennifer C Lai, MD, MBA | Presenter,

Ryan Chadha, MD | Presenter,

K Rajender Reddy, MD, FAASLD | Presenter,

Prashant Bhangui, MBBS, MS, Masters in HPB Surgery, European Inter U | Presenter,

Bandar Aljudaibi, MBBS | Moderator,

Zahid M Vahora, MD | Moderator,

Manhal Izzy, MD | Presenter,

Moira B. Hilscher, MD | Presenter,

Faouzi Saliba, MD, PhD | Presenter,

Peter Abt, MD | Presenter,

Tami Daugherty, MD | Presenter,

Gaurav Gupta, MD | Presenter,

Karen Krok, MD, FAASLD | Moderator,

Ahmed El Sabagh, MD | Moderator,

Wojciech G Polak, MD, PhD | Presenter,

David C Mulligan, MD, FACS, FAASLD, FAST | Presenter,

Ramesh Batra, MD, MA(Bioethics), FRCS | Presenter,

Arpit Amin, MD MPH | Chair,

Peter Abt, MD | Chair,

Prasun K Jalal, MD, FRCP (UK), FAASLD, FACG, FASGE, AGAF | Chair,

Ramesh Batra, MD, MA(Bioethics), FRCS | Chair,

Valeria M Mas, PhD | Chair,

Kevin "Hyun" S. Kim, MD, MHS | Presenter

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