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IN PERSON
Abhinav Humar, MD

Clinical Director of the Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute

Chief, Division of Transplantation in the Department of Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, USA

IN PERSON
Ahmed Halawa, MD, PhD

Renal Transplantation University of Liverpool, UK

IN PERSON
Ahmed Nassar, MD

Assistant Professor of Surgery
Division of Transplantation, Henry Ford Hospital, MI, USA

Alfred Kow Wei Chieh, MD

Assistant Dean of the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine

Head & Senior Consultant, Division of Hepatobiliary & Pancreatic Surgery

Senior Consultant, Adult Liver Transplantation Program
National University Hospital

IN PERSON
Ali Abdul Kareem Al Obaidli, MD

Chair of the National Transplant Committee, UAE

IN PERSON
Ashraf S Abou El Ela, MD, PhD

Title: Senior Staff Cardiac Surgery Consultant.
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

IN PERSON
Bernadette Haase BSc MSc
Bianca Lascaris, MD

University of Groningen, the Netherlands

Carmem Bonfim, MD, PhD

Head and Director of the Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation Program , Hospital Pequeno Príncipe in Curitiba, Brazil
Transplant team at Duke University, NC, USA

IN PERSON
Chloë Ballesté, MD

Medical Director of Donation Transplantation Institute (DTI), Spain

Daniel G Maluf, MD

Professor of Surgery and Director of the Transplantation Program
University of Maryland Medical System, USA

Deniz Balci, MD, PhD

Chief of Department of Surgery and Abdominal Transplantation,
Bahcesehir University School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey

Chair, Scientific Committee, International Society of Liver Surgery (ISLS).

IN PERSON
Dieter Broering, MD, PhD, FEBS, FACS

Executive Director, Organ Transplant Center of Excellence, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre,

Professor of Surgery, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

IN PERSON
Dong-Sik Kim, M.D., PhD

Director of the Organ Transplantation Center and Division of HBP Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Korea University Medical Center Anam Hospital, South Korea

Chair, Scientific Committee, Korean Association of HBP Surgery

IN PERSON
Dorrie Dils

CEO, Gift of Life Michigan CEO

President-Elect of Association of Organ Donation Programs (OPOs), USA

IN PERSON
Eman M Elsabbagh, MD

Bone Marrow Transplant- Pediatric Haematology & Oncology
Duke University, NC, USA

IN PERSON
Eyüp Kahveci, MD 

President of Turkish Transplant Foundation

IN PERSON
Hany Elbeshbeshy, MD, PhD

Professor, Hepatology and Gastroenterology,
Liver Transplant Program, Saint Louis University, MO, USA

IN PERSON
Hesham Eissa, MD, MSc

Associate Professor of Pediatrics
University of Colorado, School of Medicine

Blood and Marrow Transplant and Cellular Therapeutics
Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders, Children's Hospital Colorado

IN PERSON
James Squires, MD

Director of the pediatric advanced/transplant hepatology fellowship

Associate medical director of Hepatology
Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA

IN PERSON
Jan Lerut MD,PHD

Professor Emeritus of Surgery, Director of the Starzl Abdominal Transplant Unit, University Hospitals Saint Luc and UCL Transplant Centre in Brussels, Belgium

Past President, European Society of Organ Transplantation (ESOT), International Society of Liver Transplantation (ELTS), International Society of Liver Surgery (ISLS).

John Fung, MD, PhD 

Director, Transplantation Institute, University of Chicago، USADirector, Transplantation Institute, University of Chicago، USA

President of The Transplantation Society (TTS)

Josh Levitsky, MD

Professor of Medicine, Surgery, and Medical Education and Hepatology Program

Chief in the Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, USA

President, American Society of Transplantation (AST)

IN PERSON
Kareem Abo Almagd

Director, the Intestinal & Multiviscerall Transplant Program
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio, USA

IN PERSON
Kyle Soltys, MD

Associate Professor of Surgery, Pediatric Transplantation
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, USA

IN PERSON
Mahmoud Moataz Elzembely MD
Mamatha Bhat MD, MSc, PhD, FRCPC

Associate Professor, Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Director, Clinician-Scientist Training Program (CSTP), Department of Medicine, University of Toronto

Partnerships & Engagement Lead, Temerty Centre for AI in Research & Education in Medicine (T-CAIREM); Faculty Affiliate, Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence

Manuel I. Rodriguez-Davalos, MD

Surgical Director, Abdominal Transplantation, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta (USA)

Emory School of Medicine, Atlanta, USA

President-Elect of Society of Pediatric Liver Transplantation (SPLIT)

Mathew Cooper, MD

Chief of Transplantation, Director of Solid Organ Transplant and a Professor of Surgery at the Medical College of Wisconsin

Past President of the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), USA
Chair of Donate Life America

IN PERSON
Medhat Askar, MD, PhD, MSHPE

Associate Vice President for Clinical Affairs, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

Division Head, Clinical Immunology, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar

Clinical Professor, Department of Medical Education, Texas A&M College of Medicine, Bryan, TX

Treasurer, The Transplantation Society (TTS)

IN PERSON
Mohamed E. Salem, MD

Gastrointestinal medical oncologist and Associate Professor at the Wake Forest School of Medicine and Atrium Health Levine Cancer Institute in Charlotte, NC.

IN PERSON
Mohamed Nassef

Consultant critical care medicine @ Al Qassimi Hospital, Emirates Health Service (EHS)

Director Of Critical Care Fellowship Program

Clinical Lead Organ Donation Physician

Mohammed Shagrani, MD

Section Head, Pediatric Transplant Gastro & Hepatology

Consultant Pediatric Hepatology & Transplant Hepatology

King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh KSA

Chapter Director, SASLT Pediatric Hepatology & Transplant Hepatology

Mureo Kasahara, MD, PhD 

Executive Director, Organ Transplantation Center, National Center for Child Health, and Development, Tokyo, Japan

IN PERSON
Mustafa Nazzal , MD, MLS, FACS

Associate Professor of Surgery
Saint Louis University

IN PERSON
Nabil Ahmed, MD

Professor of Pediatric transplant- Cellular & Gene
Texas Children’s Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine, USA

Nam-Joon Yi, MD, PHD 

Seoul National University Hospital Transplant Center, Seoul, South Korea

IN PERSON
Nooreen Al Balushi

HPB and Liver Transplant surgeon, The Royal Hospital, Oman

President of Oman Transplantation Society

Osama Gaber, MD, FACS, FAST

Chair of the Houston Methodist Department of Surgery,
Houston Methodist

Presidential Distinguished Chair, John F. Jr. and Carolyn Bookout

Founding Director of the Houston Methodist J.C. Water Jr. Transplant Center

Professor of Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College

IN PERSON
Paul Szabolcs, MD

Director, Blood and Marrow Transplantation, Cellular Therapies

Professor of Pediatrics and Immunology at university of Pittsburgh, USA

IN PERSON
Roberto Hernandez-Alejandro, M.D

Chief, Division of Transplantation, University of Rochester, NY, USA

IN PERSON
Rutger J Ploeg MD PhD FRCS FEBS (Hon)

Professor of Transplant Surgery and Director of Clinical and Translational Research
Nuffield Department of Surgery, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

IN PERSON
Varvara A. Kirchner, MD, FACS

Associate Professor of Surgery
Department of Surgery- Division of Abdominal Transplantation
Stanford University, USA

IN PERSON
Volkan Ince, MD

Prof. of General Surgery, Liver Transplantation Institute of Inonu University, Malatya, Turkey

Wendy Spearman, MBChB, FRCP, PhD

Wendy Spearman, MBChB, FRCP, PhD