Liver Transplantation: Operative Techniques and Medical Management

Contributors

Mersema Abate, MD, MPH

Associate Professor of Medicine

Division of Kidney Diseases and Hypertension

Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

Great Neck, New York

René Adam, MD, PhD

Professor of Surgery

Head, Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Cancer and Transplantation

AP-HP, Hôpital Paul Brousse

Université Paris-Saclay

Villejuif, France

Poppy Addison, MD

Department of Surgery

Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

Hempstead, New York

Nicolás Francisco Aguirre, MD, MAAC

Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Unit

HZGA Petrona V. de Cordero

San Fernando, Argentina

Former Fellow at Hepatology

HPB Surgery

Liver, Pancreas, and Intestinal Transplant Unit

Hospital Universitario Fundacion Favaloro

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Jamil O. Alexis, MD

Internal Medicine

Northwell Health

North Shore University Hospital

Manhasset, New York

Adrian Alvarez, MD

Staff

Anesthesia Department

Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires, Argentina

President, ERAS Latam

Vice President of Implementation, ERAS Society

Leo I. Amodu, MD, MPH

Resident Physician

Department of Surgery

New York University Winthrop Hospital

Mineola, New York

Anand Alagappan Annamalai, MD, FACS

Chairman, Abdominal Transplant

Director, Hepatobiliary & Pancreatic Surgery

House Medicine

Los Angeles, California

Victoria Ardiles, MD, PhD

Associate Professor

General Surgery Department

Liver Transplantation Unit

Clinical Research Department

Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Lior Aronoff, RN-BC, MBA

Coordinator, Quality Management

Organ Transplant

Northwell Health

Manhasset, New York

Daniel Azoulay, MD

Department of HPB Surgery and Liver Transplantation

Hôpital Henri Mondor—Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris

Faculté de Médecine

Université Paris Est

Créteil, France

Ziya Baghmanli, MD, FACS

Red Bud Regional Hospital

Red Bud, Illinois

Pablo César Bassan, MD, FCCP

Professor of Surgery

Universidad del Salvador School of Medicine

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Chief of Surgical Education

University of Buenos Aires School of Medicine

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Chairman of Thoracic Surgery

Central Military Hospital

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Susana Bayardo, PhD

Psychologist

Consulting Professor of Instituto Universitario Hospital Italiano

Department of Psychiatry

Liver Transplantation Unit

Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Lance B. Becker, MD, FAHA

Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Northwell Health North Shore University Hospital

Manhasset, New York

Long Island Jewish Medical Center

New Hyde Park, New York

Professor and Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine

Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

Professor of Center for Immunology & Inflammation

The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research

Manhasset, New York

Magali Chahdi Beltrame, MD

HPB Surgery and Liver Transplantation Unit

Hospital El Cruce

HPB Surgery

Lanari Institute, UBA

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Ilan Berlinrut, MD

Attending

Department of Medicine—Infectious Disease

Northwell Health

Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

New York, New York

David Bernstein, MD, FAASLD, FACG, FACP, AGAF

Vice Chair of Medicine for Clinical Trials

Chief, Division of Hepatology and Sandra Atlas Bass Center for Liver Diseases

Northwell Health

Professor of Medicine and Educational Sciences

Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

Manhasset, New York

Prashant Bhangui, MBBS, MS

Senior Consultant Hepatobiliary and Liver Transplant Surgeon

Institute of Liver Transplantation and Regenerative Medicine

Medanta—The Medicity

Delhi NCR, India

Madhu Bhaskaran, MD, DM

Professor of Medicine and Surgery

Kidney Transplant Program

Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

Long Island, New York

Sabina Figari Bizzotto, DI

Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP)

Spc. at Project and Design Management

University of Buenos Aires

Msc. Biomedical Engineering

Favaloro University

Spc. in Biomedical Design for 3D Printing

Associate Professor of Representation Systems

Universidad Nacional Arturo Jauretche

Clinical Engineering Area, Hospital El Cruce, Florencio Varela

Alexandra C. Bolognese, MD, PhD

Resident, Department of Surgery

Northwell Health

Manhasset, New York

Louise Bongiorno, MS, RD, CSR, CDE

Registered Dietitian

North Shore University Hospital Transplant Team

Manhasset, New York

Nadine Breslin, PharmD

Clinical Pharmacy Coordinator

Solid Organ Transplantation

North Shore University Hospital

Manhasset, New York

Virginia M. Cano Busnelli, MD

Associate Surgeon

Upper Gastrointestinal Unit

Bariatrics Unit

Hospital Italiano de Bs As (Sede San Justo)

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Joaquin A. Cagliani, MD, PhD

Resident Physician

Department of Anesthesiology

State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Medical Center

Brooklyn, New York

Luis Campos de la Borbolla, MD

Associate Professor

University of Tennessee Health Science Center

Director of Kidney Transplantation

Methodist Healthcare System

Memphis, Tennessee

Laura Castellanos, MD

Attending Physician, Pediatric Nephrology

Medical Director, Pediatric Dialysis Unit

Cohen Children’s Medical Center of New York

New Hyde Park, New York

Alvaro E. Castillo, MD

Division of Abdominal Organ Transplant/Hepatobiliary Surgery

Oregon Health & Sciences University

Portland, Oregon

Edward Castro-Santa, MD, PhD, FEBS

Associate Professor of Surgery

Center for Liver Transplant and HPB Surgery

Mexico Hospital, CCSS

Pediatric Liver Transplant Unit

National Children’s Hospital, CCSS

San José, Costa Rica

Cindy Cen, MD

General Surgery Resident

Department of Surgery

Hofstra/Northwell School of Medicine

Manhasset, New York

William C. Chapman, MD, FACS

Eugene M. Bricker Professor of Surgery

Chief, Section of Abdominal Transplantation

Department of Surgery

Washington University School of Medicine

St. Louis, Missouri

Catherine Choi, MD

Resident Physician

Department of Medicine

Rutgers New Jersey Medical School

Newark, New Jersey

Christopher Christophi, MD, FRACS, FRCS, FACS

Professor of Surgery

The University of Melbourne

Hepato-Pancreatic-Biliary and Liver Transplant Unit

Austin Hospital

Melbourne, Australia

Yi-Min Chun

University of Toronto,

Toronto, Canada

UX Researcher

Doximity

Health Tech

San Francisco Bay Area, California

Pierre-Alain Clavien, MD, PhD, FACS (Hon), ASA (Hon), FRCS (Engl), FRCS (Ed)

Professor and Chairman

Swiss HPB & Transplant Center Zurich

Department of Surgery and Transplantation

University Hospital Zurich

Zurich, Switzerland

Damian Clement

Honor Roll Student

Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences

Boston University

Boston, Massachusetts

Joseph Conigliaro, MD, MPH, FACP

Vice Chair, Academic Affairs, Department of Medicine

Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine

Northwell Health

Professor of Medicine

Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research

New Hyde Park, New York

Gene F. Coppa, MD

Professor and Chair of Surgery

Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

Hempstead, New York

Alessandro Cucchetti, MD

Associate Professor of Surgery

Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences—DIMEC

Alma Mater Studiorum

University of Bologna

Bologna, Italy

Daniel E. D’Agostino, MD

Emeritus Professor

Chief in Honor

Gastroenterology-Hepatology

Liver and Intestinal Transplantation Unit

Department of Pediatrics

Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Christos Damaskos, MD, MSc, PhD

Surgeon

Renal Transplantation Unit

Laiko General Hospital

N.S. Christeas Laboratory of Experimental Surgery and Surgical Research

Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Athens, Greece

Maria Daoudaki, PhD, BSc, BA

Associate Professor of Biochemistry-Immunochemistry

School of Medicine Faculty of Health Sciences

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Thessaloniki, Greece

Eduardo de Santibañes, MD, PhD

Full Professor in General Surgery

Miembro Titular Academia Nacional de Medicina

Chairman, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires Liver Transplant Unit

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Martin de Santibañes, MD, PhD, FACS

Associate Professor of Surgery

Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Unit

Liver Transplantation Unit

Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Jussle Lawrence Delrosario, MD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Department of Surgery

University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Jorge Devoto, MD

Liver Surgery and Transplantation Unit

Hospital Alemán

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Sara DiCecco, MS, RDN, LD, CCTD

Clinical Lead Dietitian—Advanced Practice I

Instructor in Nutrition

Division of Endocrinology

Mayo Clinic Rochester

Rochester, Minnesota

Yosef D. Dlugacz, PhD, CMQ

Senior Vice President, Chief Clinical Quality, Education, and Research

Northwell Health Graduate Medical Education Office

Associate Professor of Science Education, Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine

Professor, Zarb Business School, Hofstra University

Executive in Residence, Zarb Business School

Hofstra University

Hempstead, New York

Cataldo Doria, MD, PhD, MBA, FACS

Medical Director, Capital Health Cancer Center

Pennington, New Jersey

Professor of Biology, Temple University

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Lisa A. dos Santos, MD

Division of Gynecologic Oncology

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

Northwell Health

New Hyde Park, New York

William Doscher, MD

Associate Chair, Ethics

Department of Surgery

Northwell Health

Associate Professor of Vascular Surgery

Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

New York, New York

Maria B. Majella Doyle, MD, MBA, FACS

Professor of Surgery

HPB and Transplant Surgery

Washington University School of Medicine

St. Louis, Missouri

Cinthia B. Drachenberg, MD

Renal and Transplant Pathologist

University of Maryland Transplant Program

Professor of Pathology

University of Maryland School of Medicine

Director, Electron Microscopy Laboratory

Baltimore, Maryland

Philipp Dutkowski, MD, FEBS

Professor of Surgery

Department of Surgery & Transplantation

University Hospital Zurich

Zurich, Switzerland

Sapir Edalati, RN, MSN, DNP Intern

Columbia University School of Nursing

New York, New York

Katslika Eleni, MD, PhD

Department of Transplant Surgery

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Thessaloniki, Greece

Sukru H. Emre, MD, FACS

Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics

Yale University School of Medicine

Section of Transplantation and Immunology

New Haven, Connecticut

Professor of Surgery (Hon)

Uludag University School of Medicine

Bursa, Turkey

Professor of Surgery (Hon)

Hospital Universitario Fundación Favaloro

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Professor of Surgery (Hon)

Inonu University School of Medicine

Malatya, Turkey

Natalia Beatriz Enríquez, MD

Infectious Diseases, Vaccinations and Travel Medicine

Rolle, Switzerland

Vamshi Eppanapally

Immunology Research Fellow

The University of Chicago

Chicago, Illinois

Jesse A. Epstein, BA, AEMT

Candidate for Master’s of Hebrew Letters and Rabbinical Ordination

Hebrew Union College—Jewish Institute of Religion

New York, New York and Jerusalem, Israel

Ahmed Fahmy, MD, FACS

Associate Chief

Division of Transplantation

Department of Surgery

North Shore University Hospital

Northwell Health

Long Island, New York

Pablo Farinelli, MD

Associate Surgeon

Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Unit

Multiorganic Transplantation Unit

Hospital Universitario Fundación Favaloro

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Martin Fauda, MD

Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Unit

Liver and Pancreas Transplantation Unit

Hospital Universitario Austral

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Diego Fernández, MD

Associate Professor of Surgery

Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Unit

Liver Transplantation Unit

Pueyrredon Clinic—Hospital Italiano Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Maria Florencia Fernandez, MD

Research Fellow

Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary and Complex Gastrointestinal Surgery

Liver, Pancreas and Intestinal Transplant Unit

Hospital Universitario Fundacion Favaloro

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Antonette Flecha, PharmD

Clinical Pharmacy Manager

Adult & Pediatric Abdominal Solid Organ Transplant

Instructor in the Einstein School of Medicine

Division of Hepatology

American Society of Transplantation Community of Practice Pediatric Executive Committee Member

Montefiore Medical Center (Moses Campus)

Bronx, New York

Downstate Medical Center Pharmacology Professor

Brooklyn, New York

Clarence E. Foster, III, MD, FACS

Medical Director of Advisory Services

Sound Physicians Advisor Services

St. Rose Dominican Hospitals

Las Vegas, Nevada

Arthur C. Fougner, MD

Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

Ann and Jules Gottlieb Women’s Comprehensive Health Center

Manhasset, New York

Ioannis Fouzas, MD, PhD

Department of Transplant Surgery

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Thessaloniki, Greece

Andrés Fraile, MD

Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary and Liver Transplantation Department

Hospital Universitario Fundación Favaloro

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Amy Friedman, MD, FACS

Chief Medical Officer and Executive Vice President

LiveOnNY

New York, New York

Ignacio Fuente, MD

Associate Professor of Surgery

General Surgery Department

Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Dominick Gadaleta, MD, FACS, FASMBS

Associate Professor of Surgery

Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

Chair, Department of Surgery

Southside Hospital

MBS Director

North Shore University Hospital

Northwell Health

Manhasset, New York

Luis Alejandro Gaite, MD

Assistant Professor

Liver Unit, Department of Medicine

Clínica de Nefrología

Santa Fe, Argentina

Maximiliano Gelli, MD

Surgical Oncology Unit

Gustave Roussy

Centre Hépato Biliaire

Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary and Liver Transplantation Unit

Paul Brousse Hospital

Villejuif, France

Larry Gellman, MD, FACS, FASMBS

Chief, Minimally Invasive Surgery

Director of Laparoscopic Fellowship

Associate Director, Bariatric Surgery

North Shore Hospital

Assistant Professor, Surgery

Hofstra School of Medicine

Hempstead, New York

Charmaine Gentles, DNP, ANP-BC, RNFA

Program Manager

Department of Surgery-Bariatric Surgery

North Shore University Hospital

Manhasset, New York

Matthew Giangola, MD

Assistant Professor

Surgical Critical Care & Acute Care Surgery

Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Queens, New York

Andrew Godwin, MD

Attending Physician in Surgery

Advanced GI & Bariatric Surgery

Huntington, New York

Nicolas Goldaracena, MD

Associate Professor of Surgery

Abdominal Organ Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery

Surgical Director, Living Donor Liver Transplant Program

Surgical Director, Pediatric Liver Transplant Program

University of Virginia Health System

Charlottesville, Virginia

Aaron Goldstein

Medical Student

Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

Transplantation Unit

North Shore University Hospital

Manhasset, New York

Gabriel E. Gondolesi, MAAC, FACS

Chief, General Surgery, HPB, Liver, Pancreas and Intestinal Transplant Programs

Hospital Universitario Fundacion Favaloro

Chief of the Microsurgical Research Laboratory

Chief of Translational and Transplant Related Immunology

IMMeTTyB (CONICET-UF)

Universidad Favaloro

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Jeremias Goransky, MD

Department of General Surgery

Division of HPB Surgery

Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires. Sede San Justo.

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Klaus Görlinger, MD

Medical Director, PBM

Instrumentation Laboratory

Tem International GmbH

Munich, Germany

Elliot Grodstein, MD

Assistant Professor of Surgery

Division of Transplant, Department of Surgery

Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

Manhasset, New York

Sara Guevara, MD

Department of Surgery

Northwell Health

Manhasset, New York

Mohammad Hamshow, MD, MRCS

Department of Surgery

Maimonides Medical Center

Brooklyn, New York

Laura Hansen, MD

Laparoscopic Surgery Fellow

Department of Surgery

Northwell Health

Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

Hempstead, New York

Kei Hayashida, MD, PhD

Research Scientist

Department of Emergency Medicine—Cardiopulmonary

The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research

Northwell Health

Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

Hempstead, New York

Julie K. Heimbach, MD, FACS

Professor of Surgery

Chair, Division of Transplantation Surgery

Mayo Clinic

Rochester, Minnesota

Roberto Hernandez-Alejandro, MD, FACS, FACSC

Professor of Surgery

Chief, Division of Transplantation/Hepatobiliary Surgery

University of Rochester Medical Center

Rochester, New York

David A. Hirschwerk, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine—Infectious Diseases

Barbara and Donald Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

Executive Vice Chair, Department of Medicine

North Shore University Hospital and Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Lake Success, New York

Dieter Paul Hoyer, MD

Assistant Professor of Surgery

General, Visceral & Transplantation Surgery

University Hospital Essen

Essen, Germany

Pablo E. Huespe, MD

Minimally Invasive Surgery Unit

Department of General Surgery

Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Sung Ho Hyon, MD, PhD

Professor of Surgery

Chief, Image Guided Minimally Invasive Surgery

Chief, Kidney-Pancreas Transplantation Unit

Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Juan C. Iaquinandi, MD

Department of Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery and Liver Transplant Unit

Fellow, Department of General Surgery—Laparoscopic Surgery

Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Oscar Imventarza, MD

Chief of Liver Transplantation

Hospital Argerich/Hospital Garrahan

Buenos Aires, Argentina

George Imvrios, MD, PhD

General and Transplantation Surgeon

Division of Transplantation

Aristotle University Medical School

Hippokration General Hospital

Thessaloniki, Greece

Toni Iurcotta, MD

Resident, General Pediatrics

Cohen Children’s Medical Center

Northwell Health

New Hyde Park, New York

Nicholas Jandovitz, PharmD

Assistant Professor of Surgery

Barbara and Donald Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

Supervising Pharmacist—Solid Organ Transplant

Department of Pharmacy

North Shore University Hospital, Northwell Health

Manhasset, New York

Robert M. Jones, MD, FRACS, FACS

Director, Victoria Liver Transplant Unit

Austin Health

Melbourne, Australia

Harsh Kavi, PhD

Medical Science Liaison

Diabetes and Cardiovascular diseases

Eli Lilly and Company

Adam Khader, MD, PhD

Fellow in Complex General Surgical Oncology

John Wayne Cancer Institute

Santa Monica, California

Mubeen Mohammed Abdul Khan, MD

Department of Internal Medicine—

Transplant Hepatology

Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Sameer Khanijo, MD, FACP, FCCP

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine

New Hyde Park, New York

Irene K. Kim, MD

Associate Professor of Surgery

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Comprehensive Transplant Center

Los Angeles, California

Andrew S. Klein, MD, MBA, FACS

Director, Comprehensive Transplant Center

Esther and Mark Schulman Chair of Surgery and Transplant Medicine

Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Surgery

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Los Angeles, California

Victor R. Klein, MD, MBA, CPHRM

Associate Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology

System Chief, Quality & Patient Safety

Obstetrics and Gynecology Service Line

Northwell Health

Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

Great Neck, New York

Cole T. Kleinman, BS

Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine

Stratford, New Jersey

Steven Krawitz, MD

Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

VA New Jersey Health Care System

East Orange VA Medical Center

East Orange, New Jersey

Michael Kuncewitch, MD

Assistant Professor of Surgery

Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

Division of Surgical Oncology

Northwell Health Cancer Institute

New Hyde Park, New York

Matthew Kutner, DO

Fellow, Advanced Endoscopy and Gastroenterology

Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Rutgers New Jersey Medical School

University Hospital

Newark, New Jersey

Sebastián Lapman, MD

Nephrologist

Oncologist

Chief Oncologist Unit

Sanatorio Modelo de Caseros

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Lawrence Lau, MBBS, PhD, FRACS, FRCSC

Assistant Professor of Surgery

Transplant Institute

Northwell Health

Manhasset, New York

Julio C. Lazarte, MD

Department of Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery and Liver Transplant Unit

Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Jessica Lee, MD

Assistant Professor

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

UT Southwestern Medical Center

Dallas, Texas

Javier Lendoire, MD, PhD

Vice Chairman, Liver & Transplant Unit

Hospital Dr Cosme Argerich

Chairman, Liver Transplantation

Instituto de Trasplantes y Alta Complejidad (ITAC)

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Chetana Lim, MD, PhD

HPB and Liver Transplantation

Pitié Salpetriere Hospital

Paris, France

Allen Lopez-Barrantes, MD

San Jose, Costa Rica.

Nikolaos Machairas, MD, PhD

Second Department of Propaedeutic Surgery

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Laiko General Hospital

Athens, Greece

Varun Madireddy, MD

Chief Nephrology Fellow

North Shore University Hospital

Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

Great Neck, New York

Mary P. Maiberger, MD, FAAD

Chief of Dermatology

Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Assistant Clinical Professor of Dermatology

George Washington University School of Medicine

Assistant Professor of Dermatology

Howard University School of Medicine

Washington, DC

Massimo Malagó, MD, PhD

Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary and Liver Transplant Services

The Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust

Hampstead, London

Prashant Malhotra, MD

Division of Infectious Diseases—Department of Medicine

Northwell Health System

Manhasset, New York

Benedict Maliakkal, MD

Medical Director of Hepatology

Ascension St. Thomas Hospital

Nashville, Tennessee

Associate Professor

University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center

Memphis, Tennessee

Siddhi Mankame, MD

Division of Infectious Diseases—Department of Medicine

Northwell Health System

Manhasset, New York

Ilaria Marchesi, PhD

Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature

Hofstra University

Hempstead, New York

Sebastián Marciano, MD, MsC, PhD Student

Liver Unit and Department of Research

Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires

Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Jose Marco del Pont, MD

Infectious Unit—Department of Pediatrics

Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Francisco Juan Mattera, MD

Chief, Hepatobiliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation Unit

Hospital de Alta Complejidad "El Cruce"

Florencio Varela

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Erin Maynard, MD

Assistant Professor

Division of Abdominal Organ Transplantation/Hepatobiliary Surgery

Oregon Health & Science University

Portland VA Medical Center Transplant Program

Portland, Oregon

Lathan McCall, MD

Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine

Massachusetts General Hospital

Harvard Medical School

Boston, Massachusetts

William McCabe, JD

Ethics Fellow

Division of Medical Ethics

Department of Medicine

Northwell Health

Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

Hempstead, New York

Alexia McCann-Molmenti

Tucson, Arizona

Lucas McCormack, MD, PhD, FACS, FEBS (HPB)

Associate Professor of Surgery. Buenos Aires University, Argentina

Chief of Liver Surgery and Transplantation

Hospital Alemán de Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Christine (Cooky) O. Menias, MD

Professor of Radiology

Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science

Arizona, Phoenix

Chair, Education Exhibits Committee, Radiological Society of North America

Chair, Education Web Committee, Society of Abdominal Radiology

Andrew W. Menzin, MD, MBA, FACOG, FACS

Chief of Gynecologic Oncology

Northwell Health Physician Partners, Central Region

Vice Chairman for Academic Affairs

OBGYN Service Line

Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology

Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

New Hyde Park, New York

Santiago J. Miyara, MD

Elmezzi PhD Scholar in Molecular Medicine

Laboratory for Critical Care Physiology

Department of Emergency Medicine

North Shore University Hospital

Manhasset, New York

Christine L. Sardo Molmenti, PhD, MPH

Assistant Professor

Department of Occupational Medicine, Epidemiology, and Prevention

Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

Center for Health Innovations and Outcomes Research

The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research

Manhasset, New York

Ernesto Pompeo Molmenti, MD, PhD, MBA

System Chief, Surgical Innovation

Vice Chairman, Department of Surgery

Professor of Surgery, Medicine, and Pediatrics

Northwell Health

Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

New York, New York

Hebe Molmenti, MD, PhD

Plastic Surgery

Tucson, Arizona

Martin I. Montenovo, MD

Assistant Professor

Division of Abdominal Transplantation

Department of Surgery

University of Washington

Seattle, Washington

Luis Fernando Morales, MD

Professor and Head of the Hemotherapy and Immunohematology

Thrombosis and Hemostasis Service

Rivadavia Sanatorium Liver Transplant Hematology Service

Cardiovascular Institute

Hematology

Head, Hemotherapy and Immunohematology Service

Hospital Avellaneda

Tucumán, Argentina

Megan Moravec, PharmD

Clinical Pharmacy Coordinator

Pediatric Solid Organ Transplant

Cohen Children’s Medical Center

New Hyde Park, New York

Dimitrios Moris, MD, MSc, PhD

General Surgery Resident

Department of Surgery

Duke University Medical Center

Durham, North Carolina

Jeanne Morley, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

The Feinstein Institutes for Biomedical Research

Division of General Internal Medicine

Northwell Health

Manhasset, New York

Eduardo Gustavo Mullen, MD

Assistant Professor

Pathology University School of Medicine

Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Gayatri Devi Nair, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine and Surgery

Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

Transplant Nephrologist

North Shore University Hospital

Manhasset, New York

Vinay Nair, DO

Associate Professor of Medicine

Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

Medical Director of Kidney Transplantation

Northwell Health

Manhasset, New York

Peter Nauka, MD

Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center

Department of Internal Medicine

Residency Training Program

Bronx, New York

Joshua Newman, MD, MS

Resident, Integrated Thoracic Surgery

Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

North Shore University Hospital, Northwell Health

Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Northwell Health

New York, New York

Bao Tram Nghiem, MD

Plastic Surgery Resident

Division of Plastic Surgery

University of Rochester Medical Center

Rochester, New York

Jeffrey M. Nicastro, MD, FACS, FCCM

Network Chairman of Surgery

Nuvance Health

Associate Clinical Professor of Surgery

University of Vermont School of Medicine

Carmen and Peter Buck Endowed Chair of Surgery

Danbury Hospital

Danbury, Connecticut

Bakr M. Nour, MD, PhD, FACS

Professor of Surgery

Weill Cornell Medicine

New York, New York and Qatar, Doha

Julia R. Nunley, MD, FAAD, FACP

Professor, Dermatology

Virginia Commonwealth University Health System

Richmond, Virginia

Rachana Oak, DO

Gastroenterology Chief Fellow

Coney Island Hospital

Brooklyn, New York

Raquel Olivo, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Rutgers New Jersey Medical School

Newark University Hospital

Newark, New Jersey

Andrew A. Oppenberg, DPS(c), MPH, CPHRM, DFASHRM

Asclepius Bioethics, ERM, Patient Safety Consultants

Lecturer, Health Administration Program

California State University

Northridge, California

Susan L. Orloff, MD

Professor of Surgery

Chief

Division of Abdominal Organ Transplantation/Hepatobiliary Surgery

Adjunct Professor

Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology

Oregon Health & Science University

Chief, Portland VA Medical Center Transplant Program

Portland, Oregon

Evan Orosz, DO

Gastroenterology Fellow

Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Rutgers RWJ Medical School

Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital

New Brunswick, New Jersey

Christopher Chiodo Ortiz, MS

MD Candidate

University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences

Toledo, Ohio

Jorge Ortiz, MD

Professor of Surgery

Albany Medical Center

Division of Transplantation

Albany, New York

Alexandra Osman, BS

Glen Head, New York

Samuel Packer, MD

Chair Emeritus, Department of Ophthalmology

Professor of Ophthalmology

Chair, Medical Ethics

Northwell Health

Co-Director, Hofstra University Bioethics Center

Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

Hempstead, New York

Justin Panthappattu, MD

Research Assistant

Division of Pulmonary, Sleep and Critical Care Medicine

North Shore—LIJ Health System

New Hyde Park, New York

John C. Papadimitriou, MD, PhD

Department of Pathology

University of Maryland School of Medicine

Baltimore, Maryland

Vasileios Papanikolaou, MD, PhD

Department of Transplant Surgery

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Thessaloniki, Greece

Pavan Patel, MD

Gastroenterology Fellow

Rutgers New Jersey Medical School

Newark, New Jersey

Terra Pearson, MD

Transplant Fellow

Division of Abdominal Transplantation

Department of Surgery

University of Washington

Seattle, Washington

Juan Pekolj, MD, PhD, FACS, ASA (Hon)

Chairman, General Surgery Service

Vice Chairman, Liver Transplant Unit

Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Marcos Vinicius Perini, MD, MsC, PhD, FRACS

Associate Professor of Surgery

HPB and Liver Transplant Unit

Austin Hospital

Department of Surgery

The University of Melbourne

Melbourne, Australia

Gabriela Perli, MD

Medical Pathologist

Former Resident, Department of Pathology

The Italian Hospital of Buenos Aires

Fellow of Transplant Pathology of Favaloro Foundation

Medical Staff of the Favaloro Foundation Pathology Service

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Benjamin Philosophe, MD, PhD

Professor (PAR) of Surgery

Surgical Director, Comprehensive Transplant Center

Johns Hopkins Medicine

Baltimore, Maryland

Daniel Pievsky, DO, RD, CNSC

Gastroenterology Fellow

Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Rutgers New Jersey Medical School

Newark, New Jersey

Federico Piñero, MD, MSCE, PhD

Hepatology and Liver Transplant Unit

Hospital Universitario Austral

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Antonio D. Pinna, MD

Director, Abdominal Transplant Center

Cleveland Clinic Florida

Weston, Florida

Luis G. Podesta, MD

Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Unit

Liver Transplantation Unit

Hospital Universitario Austral

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Aliaksei Pustavoitau, MD

Assistant Professor

Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Baltimore, Maryland

Nikolaos T. Pyrsopoulos, MD, PhD, MBA, FACP, AGAF, FAASLD, FRCP (Edin)

Professor and Chief

Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Professor, Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience

Medical Director, Liver Transplantation

Rutgers New Jersey Medical School

University Hospital

Newark, New Jersey

Emilio Quiñonez, MD

Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Unit

Liver Transplantation Unit, Hospital El Cruce

Liver Transplantation Unit, Hospital Aleman

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Arnold Radtke, MD

Professor of Surgery

Department of General and Transplantation Surgery

University Hospital Tuebingen

Tuebingen, Germany

Franck F. Rahaghi, MD, MHS

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Case Western Reserve University

Chairman, Department of Pulmonary & Critical Care

Cleveland Clinic Florida

Weston, Florida

Diego Ramisch, MD

Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary and Liver Transplantation Department

Hospital Universitario Fundación Favaloro

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Amir Ranehmai-Azar, MD

Transplant Fellow

Division of Abdominal Transplantation

Department of Surgery

University of Washington

Seattle, Washington

Ezequiel Rodríguez Reimundes, MD

Internal Medicine and Nephrology Practice

Rolle, Switzerland

Andrea Restifo, RN, MPA, MHCDS

Associate Executive Director

North Shore University Hospital

Manhasset, New York

Horacio Rilo, MD

New York, New York

Charles B. Rosen, MD

Division of Transplantation Surgery

The William J. von Liebig Transplant Center

Mayo Clinic

Rochester, Minnesota

Luis I. Ruffolo, MD

General Surgery Resident

Department of Surgery

University of Rochester Medical Center

Rochester, New York

Andrés Ruhemann, MD

Physician

Internal Medicine Unit

Instituto de Investigaciones Médicas Alfredo Lanari

Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Vafa Salahova, MD

Red Bud, Illinois

Chady Salloum, MD

Centre Hépatobiliaire

Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary and Liver Transplantation Unit

Paul Brousse Hospital

Villejuif, France

Maria C. Sanchez, MD

Gastroenterology-Hepatology Division

Liver and Intestinal Transplantation Unit

Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Frances Santiago-Schwarz, PhD

Professor, Molecular Medicine

Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at

Hofstra/Northwell and the Elmezzi Graduate School

Northwell Health

Hempstead, New York

Fanny Rodríguez Santos, MD

Associate Professor of Surgery

General Surgery Department

Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Rachel A. Sardo, RN

Clinical Instructor

Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

Victoria Hospital

London, United Kingdom, Ontario, Canada

Sanjaya K. Satapathy, MBBS, MD, DM, MS(Epi), FACG, AGAF, FASGE, FAASLD

Medical Director, Liver Transplantation

Sandra Atlas Bass Center for Liver Diseases & Transplantation

Associate Professor of Medicine

Department of Medicine

North Shore University Hospital

Northwell Health

Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

Hempstead, New York

Pablo Barros Schelotto, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Surgery

Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Unit and Multi-Organ Transplant Institute

University Hospital, Favaloro Foundation

Ciudad de Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Peter Schemmer, MD, PhD, MBA, FACS

Univ. Prof. (Hon.) Dr. Med. Dr. H. C.

Chairman, Professor of Surgery

General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery

Department of Surgery

University Hospital, Medical University of Graz

Graz, Austria

Markus Selzner, MD, MBA

Associate Professor of Surgery

Division of General Surgery

Ajmera Transplant Center

Toronto General Hospital

University of Toronto

Toronto, Canada

Matteo Serenari, MD

General Surgery and Transplantation Unit

Sant’Orsola-Malpighi Hospital

Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences (DIMEC)

University of Bologna

Bologna, Italy

Christine B. Sethna, MD, EdM

Division Director, Pediatric Nephrology

Cohen Children’s Medical Center of New York

Associate Professor

Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research

New Hyde Park, New York

Georgios Sgourakis, MD, PhD, FACS, FRCSEd

Consultant Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgeon

Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Unit

Royal Blackburn Hospital

East Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Trust

Blackburn, United Kingdom

Koichiro Shinozaki, MD, PhD

Resident

Department of Emergency Medicine

Northwell Health

New Hyde Park, New York

Pamela Singer, MD, MS

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Zucker Hofstra School of Medicine

Medical Director of Pediatric Renal Transplant

Long Island Jewish—Cohen Children’s Medical Center

New Hyde Park, New York

Preet Mohinder Singh, MD

Assistant Professor

Department of Anesthesia

Washington University in Saint Louis

St. Louis, Missouri

Georgios C. Sotiropoulos, MD, PhD, FACS, FEBS

Professor of Surgery and Transplantation

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Second Department of Propaedeutic Surgery

University Hospital Laiko

Athens, Greece

Eleftherios Spartalis, MD, MSc, PhD, FACS

Lecturer of Surgery

Surgical Oncology Unit

Second Department of Propaedeutic Surgery

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Medicine

Athens, Greece

Juan Carlos Spina, MD

Radiologist

Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Unit

Department of Radiology

Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires, Argentina

A. Sterkenburg, MD

Department of General, Visceral, and Transplantation Surgery

Ruprecht Karls University

Heidelberg, Germany

William J. Stewart, DDS, MPH

Chief of General Dentistry

Program Director, General Practice Residency

Program Director, Implant Fellowship

Northwell Health

Associate Professor

Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

Manhasset, New York

Arunabh Talwar, MD

Professor of Medicine

Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

Director

Pulmonary Function Laboratory and Pulmonary Rehabilitation

North Shore University Hospital

Manhasset, New York

Timucin Taner, MD, PhD, FACS

Associate Professor of Surgery

Surgical Director of Liver Transplantation

Mayo Clinic

Rochester, Minnesota

Lewis W. Teperman, MD, FACS

Professor of Surgery and Medicine

Director, Transplantation

Northwell Health

New York, New York

Koji Tomiyama, MD, PhD

Division of Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Surgery

Department of Surgery

University of Rochester Medical Center

Rochester, New York

Donato Tramontozzi, RPh

Certified Diabetes Educator

Staff Pharmacist, Auburndale Pharmacy

Flushing, New York

Panagiotis Trilianos, MD

Clinical Hepatologist

East Boston Neighborhood Health Center

Research Affiliate

Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Department of Liver Transplantation

Rutgers New Jersey Medical School

University Hospital

Newark, New Jersey

Sudhi Trye, MD

Assistant Professor

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

New Hyde Park, NY

Petros H. Tsaparas, MD, MSc, PhD

General Surgeon

Associate Director of First Endoscopic Surgical Department

Metropolitan General Clinic

Athens, Greece

William S. Twaddell, MD

Associate Professor

Department of Pathology

University of Maryland School of Medicine

Baltimore, Maryland

Alejandra Villamil, MD

Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires

Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Sophia Vincoff

Duke University

Durham, North Carolina

Mariano Volpacchio, MD

Head of Computed Tomography

Diagnostic Imaging Department

Hospital de Clínicas José de San Martín

Universidad de Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Head of Body Imaging

Centro Rossi

Affiliated Universidad de Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Praneet Wander, MD

Fellow in Advanced Endoscopy

Fox Chase Cancer Center

Hospital & Health Care

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Ping Wang, MD

Professor and Chief Scientific Officer

The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research

Manhasset, New York

Jay Weinstein, MD, MBA

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

Section of Internal Medicine

Northwell Health

Great Neck, New York

Aaron Winnick, MD, FACS

Assistant Professor of Surgery

Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery

Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

Manhasset, New York

David Andrew Yeo, MD, FRACS

Department of Surgery

Royal Prince Alfred Hospital

Sydney, Australia

Division of Transplantation Surgery

The William J. von Liebig Transplant Center

Mayo Clinic

Rochester, Minnesota

Stefanos Zafeiropoulos, MD, MSc

Elmezzi PhD Scholar in Molecular Medicine

Translational Neurophysiology Laboratory

The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research

Manhasset, New Yorks

Daniel Zamora-Valdes, MD

Department of Transplant Surgery

Mayo Clinic

Rochester, Minnesota

Marcos R. Zandomeni, MD

Ex-Fellow HPB Surgery, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires

Assistant Professor of Surgery, Buenos Aires University

Hepato-Pancreatic-Biliary Surgeon, General Surgeon

Hospital Carlos G. Durand

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Xin Zhong, MD, FACS

North Shore University Hospital

Manhasset, New York

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