Chief, Pediatric Transplantation Professor of Surgery and Critical Care, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Children’s Hospital of Montefiore, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Assistant Professor of Surgery, Assoicate Surgical Director, Liver Transplanation
University of California, San Diego

Dr. Aleah Brubaker is an MD PhD trained surgeon scientist who practices adult and pediatric liver and kidney transplant at UC San Diego Heath and Rady Children’s Hospital. She is one of the founding members and current chair of CONCORD, a national consortium focused on the impact of normothermic regional perfusion (NRP) and ex situ machine perfusion (MP) on donation after circulatory death (DCD) abdominal allograft utilization and outcomes. Her clinical and research interests are centered on the ability of in situ and ex situ machine perfusion and novel therapeutic agents to rehabilitate organs to expand the available donor pool and improve access to safe transplant for waitlisted recipients. She co-founded the Transplant Revitalization Laboratory alongside colleague Dr. Peter Than to drive patient-centered, clinically impactful basic and translational research programs in organ transplantation, and to train future generations of clinician-scientists.

Division Head, Transplant & Advanced Hepatobiliary Surgery;
Surgical Director, Siragusa Transplantation Center;
Professor of Surgery (Organ Transplantation), Northwestern

Chief of the OCS Liver Transplant Program at TransMedics
Transplant & Hepatobiliary Surgeon
Boston, Massachussets, The United States

Magdy Attia, MD, MS, FRCSGen, MBBCh. I started my carreer in Liver Transplantation in 1997 in the United Kingdom. I obtained my Doctorate of Medicine in Organ Preservation from Leeds University. I became a consultant Transplant & Hepatobiliary Surgeon in 2008 and I was the Chief of Transplantation & Hepatobiliary Surgery at Leeds Teaching Hospitals From 2010-2021. I performed Adult and pediatric as well as living donor liver transplantion. I have special interest in normothermic machine perfusion and I was PI of Clinical trials in this area. Since October 2022, I moved to the states to become the Chief of the OCS Liver Transplant Program at TransMedics. Throughout my carreer, I have experience of more than 12000 Liver transplants to date.

Assistant Professor, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital
Houston, Texas, USA

Chun-Sing (Kevin) Huang, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Division of Abdominal Transplantation at Baylor College of Medicine. He specializes in adult and pediatric abdominal transplantation and hepatobiliary surgery. Dr. Huang completed his General Surgery residency and Abdominal Transplant and HPB fellowship at the Baylor College of Medicine, where he earned multiple teaching, professionalism, and academic achievement awards, including the Raleigh Ross Scholar Award and induction into the Alpha Omega Alpha Society. His clinical and research interests include pediatric and adult liver transplantation, machine perfusion technologies, surgical quality improvement, and addressing health disparities in transplant outcomes. He played a central role in developing one of the first dedicated pediatric normothermic machine perfusion programs in the United States.