Attending Psychologist, Children’s National Hospital
Associate Professor, The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Washington, DC, USA

Dr. Amatya is the psychologist for the nephrology and Advanced Cardiac Therapies services at Children's National Hospital and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at The GW School of Medicine. He completed his pediatric psychology training at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine before joining CNH in 2017. His clinical interests include interventions to improve medical adherence, adjustment to diagnosis and treatment, and readiness for transition to adult care. Dr. Amatya’s research interests include quality of life assessment, barriers to adherence, transition readiness, and psychosocial factors associated with adherence and long-term adjustment in pediatric transplant patients and their families. He is passionate about advocating for children’s needs and serves as an Affiliate Faculty with the Child Health Advocacy Institute at CNH and a member of the CNH Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee.

Urologist, Children's National Hospital
Director of Fertility Preservation, Division of Urology
Children's National Hospital Professor, The George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA

Michael Hsieh, M.D., Ph.D., is a urologist at Children's National Hospital. He attended Stanford University and returned to the East Coast for medical school at Thomas Jefferson University. During medical school, Dr. Hsieh also obtained a Ph.D. in immunology. He completed his urology residency training at the University of California San Francisco and pediatric urology fellowship training at Texas Children’s Hospital. Following fellowship training, he was an Assistant Professor at Stanford University, where he founded an NIH-funded research group focused on urologic research. He was recruited to George Washington University and Children's National Hospital, where he is a Professor and the Director of Male Fertility Preservation.

Senior Nurse Research Coordinator
Transplant Pregnancy Registry International (TPRI)
Philadlphia, PA, USA

Lisa has dedicated her career to the field of transplantation in various roles and she has been with the Transplant Pregnancy Registry International (TPRI) for most of her career as the Senior Nurse Research Coordinator. Lisa is an active member of several transplant organizations and was recently elected as a Counselor-at-Large for the American Society of Transplantation. Lisa has authored numerous publications and has presented nationally and internally on the topics of contraception and pregnancy after transplantation.

Head of Paediatric Nephrology and Solid Organ Transplantation
Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital
University of Cape Town

Full Professor & Head of Clinical Unit of Paediatric Nephrology and Solid Organ Transplantation at Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital. Senior Lecturer at the University of Cape Town. She is current Chair of IPNA 2025 Congress in Cape Town.

Her interests include Paediatric Nephrology and Care of Critically ill children specifically with AKI requiring all forms of Dialysis and Transplant in infants and children. She is on the Saving Young Lives (SYL) Steering Committee and enjoys training Fellows and outreach work in Africa developing paediatric renal and transplant programs.

She is also an amateur surfer :)

Professor of Child Health Psychology – Cardiology, Critical Care and Transplantation
Institute of Cardiovascular Science, University College London
London, UK

Senior Research Fellow
Centre for Outcomes and Experience Research in
Children’s Health, Illness and Disability
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London

Jo Wray MSc, PhD, DHP, C Psychol is a senior research fellow and health psychologist at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, Professor of Child Health Psychology at the Institute of Cardiovascular Science, UCL and a Visiting Professor at the University of Surrey. She has been an IPTA Councillor, member of several IPTA committees and was the recipient of the IPTA Distinguished Allied Health Professional award in 2013. She is currently an Associate Editor of Pediatric Transplantation.

She has worked in the field of paediatric cardiology and transplantation for over 30 years, both as a health psychology researcher and practitioner, establishing the first psychology clinical service and research programme in paediatric cardiothoracic transplantation at Harefield Hospital before moving to Great Ormond Street.

Professor of Pediatrics Division Chief
Pediatric Nephrology EIC, Pediatric Transplantation
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Sharon Bartosh is Professor of Pediatrics and Division Chief of Pediatric Nephrology at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin. She has been Medical Director of Pediatric Kidney Transplantation for over 30 years. She has been on the Board of Directors of the United Network of Organ Sharing (UNOS), the primary organ allocation system entity in the USA as well as a Councilor of the American Society of Transplantation. For the past 8 years she has been the North American Editor in Chief of Pediatric Transplantation, the official journal of the International Pediatric Transplant Association.

Adult and Pediatric Nephrologist, Department of Nephrology
Akron Children's Hospital and Akron General Medcial Center Cleveland Clinic

Rupesh Raina, M.D., associate professor of internal medicine, has been a clinical faculty member at NEOMED for seven years, and became M4 director in October 2021. He also practices adult and pediatric nephrology at Akron General Hospital, Summa Health and Akron Children’s Hospital, and conducts research on acute kidney injury and outcomes.