Markus Selzner completed a residency in General Surgery at the University Hospitals of Cologne/Germany and Zurich/Switzerland. He performed a three-year research fellowship focusing on hepatic reperfusion injury at the Duke University Medical Center. He continued is training with a clinical fellowship in Liver/ Pancreas Surgery and Liver Transplantation in Zurich, followed by a second fellowship abdominal organ transplantation in Toronto.
Dr. David Mulligan, an acclaimed abdominal organ transplant surgeon from the Mayo Clinic in Arizona and former Chief of the Division of Transplantation and Immunology, director of the Yale-New Haven Transplantation Center (YNHTC), and Professor of Surgery at Yale School of Medicine, has moved to Reno, NV to help build a kidney and liver transplant program for Renown Health. He also perform living donor liver transplants at University of Washington in Seattle intermittently with their existing full time team.
Dr. Han is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, and the Program Director of the Transplant Hepatology Fellowship at USC Keck School of Medicine. She also directs the Living Donor Liver Transplant program. Helen Han completed her Internal Medicine residency, Gastroenterology and Transplant Hepatology Fellowship at Icahn School of Medicine of Mount Sinai in New York City.
Dr. Carmen Chak-Lui Wong is currently an Associate Professor and Principal Investigator in the Department of Pathology and State Key Laboratory of Liver Research at the University of Hong Kong (HKU). She is currently the Assistant Dean of the LKS Faculty of Medicine at HKU. She is the program leader of the liver cancer program at Center of Oncology and Immunology at InnoHealth, Hong Kong.
Prof Dr Sezai Yilmaz was born on September 28, 1962 in Arguvan district of Malatya.Following his specialization in General Surgery and Gastrointestinal Surgery, he received training in liver transplantation since 1998. In 2002, he started a deceased donor liver transplant program in Malatya İnönü University School of Medicine Turgut Özal Medical Center. Due to a lack of deceased donor donation in Turkey, he has started the live donor liver transplant program at the same center in 2005.
Valeria Mas, PhD, MSc, FAST Joseph and Corinne Schwartz Endowed Professor Surgical Sciences Research in Transplantation, Professor of Surgery, Chief Surgical Science Division, School of Medicine, Department of Surgery, University of Maryland. Dr. Mas is the former Director and founder of the Transplant Research Institute, which is part of the Methodist University Transplant Institute associated with University of Tennessee Health Science Center.
Baylor College of Medicine, Section of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Houston, Texas
Dr. Finger is the Eunice L. Dwan Endowed Chair for Diabetes Research and Professor of Surgery at the University of Minnesota, where his research focuses on organ and tissue preservation. In addition, he is a multi-organ abdominal transplant surgeon with a particular focus on kidney and pancreas transplantation. He received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from UC Davis, an M.D. from Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Ph.D.
Dr. Griesemer is an Associate Professor of Surgery and Surgical Director of Living Donor and Pediatric Liver Transplant at NYU Langone. His NIH-funded lab studies xenotransplantation in nonhuman primates, human decedents, and living recipients of xenografts.
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.