Dr. Julie Heimbach is a professor of surgery and the Director of the William Von Liebig Center for transplantation at Mayo Clinic in Rochester MN. She is an abdominal transplant surgeon who has focused on living donor liver transplantation, liver transplantation for malignancies, and issues of obesity and transplantation. Dr Heimbach has previously served on the OPTN Board as well as the chair of the OPTN Liver Committee, and the governing board of the AASLD, and currently serves as the Treasurer of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons and as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Hepatology.