Matthew Weiss is a pediatric intensivist working in Quebec City at the CHU de Québec. He has multiple provincial, national, and international donation roles, including medical director of donation at Transplant Québec. His research interests focus on the implementation of legislative and policy reform in organ donation and has participated in the development of several best practice guidelines. His peer reviewed publications touch on diverse aspects of adult and pediatric donation and regularly presents on these topics in scientific conferences around the world.

Alison Hodak has contributed to the organ donation sector in Australia since 2012. First as a Donation Coordinator and now as the National Manager and Director of the Clinical Programs for the Australia Organ and Tissue Authority. She provides strategic direction and leads the team responsible for ensuring the delivery of key national initiatives to support the DonateLife Network and the broader clinical sector in the delivery of the national program for organ and tissue donation for transplantation in Australia. Alison has over 20 years’ experience working in the critical care sector, including roles in education, research and management. She holds both Post-Graduate and Masters’ qualifications in Critical Care Nursing and Management, as well as Company Director training with Australian Institute of Company Directors. Alison is the current National President and Executive Director of the Australian College of Critical Care Nurses and a council member of the International Society of Organ Donation for Professionals. Alison has strengths in governance, risk, financial oversight and education. She is passionate about organ donation, the nursing workforce and innovate concepts in our approach to wellbeing, leadership and nursing.

Wenshi is the awardee of TTS-WIT UNSUNG Hero Award 2024 and currently the honorary editor of the China Organ Donation Administrative Center and also the senior consultant of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University. Her dedication to the field of transplantation is exemplary. After graduating from the Oxford University, Wenshi has been at the forefront of developing and promoting national deceased organ donation programmes in China in the last 16 years. Her efforts in developing the national organ allocation computing system, coordinating national education projects on organ donation as well as developing local successful donation program have been instrumental in advancing the field.

Wenshi's leadership and ability to foster teamwork are outstanding. Recognized for exceptional collaborative leadership, Wenshi was elected Councillor for ISODP and TTS 2026 SWG-Organ Donation. Her global bridge-building initiatives include establishing the groundbreaking NEW HORIZON program with ESOT and sustaining professional networks for WIT, ISODP collaboration.

Academic credentials reinforcing her practice include:

• 42 peer-reviewed publications & 10+ books/chapters
• Advanced Public Health training from Tsinghua University, informing multidisciplinary research methodologies
• WHO-recognized consensus development: Lead author of the award-winning Chinese Expert Consensus on Communication with Organ and Tissue Donor Families (2021 China Guide Consensus Transparency Award recipient by WHO Collaborating Center for Guideline Implementation and Knowledge Translation & the Chinese Journal of Medicine)

David Thomson is a critical care subspecialist and abdominal transplant surgeon at Groote Schuur Hospital and the University of Cape Town. His interests are medical education and deceased donation system improvement. He created the massive open online course Organ Donation: From Death to Life and the 2-day in-person Excellence in Deceased Donation and End of Life Care course to improve education around organ donation and good end of life care. He is a past President of the Southern African Transplantation Society, and a current council member for the International Society for Organ Donation Professionals and the Transplantation Society. He led development “Creating a National Strategic Roadmap for Organ and Tissue Donation in South Africa” in collaboration with the International Society for Organ Donation and Procurement. He worked on the World Brain Death Project and is the lead author on the South African Guidelines for Determination of Death published in 2021. He currently heads the Transplant Centre of Excellence project at Groote Schuur and Red Cross Children’s Hospitals in Cape Town.

Juntaro Ashikari holds a Master’s degree in Medical Science, specializing in organ donation and transplantation. He began his professional career in 1996 as one of the pioneering procurement transplant coordinators at the Japan Organ Transplant Network, where he has continuously played a key role in establishing and operating Japan’s organ donation and allocation system.

Currently serving as Director of the Investigation and Research Division, Juntaro Ashikari has extensive experience in a wide range of areas, including organ donation consent and family support, donor evaluation, extended criteria donors, donation after circulatory determination of death, organ utilization and allocation, transplant recipient registries, data management, and research in organ donation and transplantation.

Juntaro Ashikari is an active board member and contributor to multiple local medical societies and organizations. He also serves on the local organizing committee for the upcoming International Society for Organ Donation Professionals (ISODP) 2025 Kyoto Conference.

With a career grounded in both practice and policy, Juntaro Ashikari brings deep expertise, a collaborative spirit, and unwavering dedication to advancing organ donation. His insight will be a valuable asset to the council and the broader international community, particularly in navigating the challenges that lie ahead.

Between the years 2003 to 2023, as a liver transplant surgeon, Sun Jisan performed over 500 donor organ harvesting, including more than 50 in-situ splitting donor liver procedures. He has also accomplished over 50 adult liver transplantations as well as more than 100 vascular and biliary reconstructions. Since 2024, as Director of Tianjin Organ Procurement Organization (OPO), he has led initiatives to advance organ donation and transplantation in China. His expertise spans three key domains: organ donation and procurement, organ preservation and recovery, as well as optimizing the procedure of retrieving DCD donors. He pioneered the routine clinical application of Normothermic Regional Perfusion (NRP) in DCD organ procurement and recovery and has contributed to the development of a novel multi-organ normothermic perfusion system for experimental and clinical practice. His scientific research focuses on expanding the donor pool through innovations in organ preservation and splitting techniques. As the Tianjin OPO director, Dr. Jisan has bridged clinical practice with organ procurement and recovery system development, and served on committees of the Chinese Medical Association while implementing international best practices in China's donation system.

Dr. Seth, a transplant hepatologist, established deceased organ donation programs in 8 Armed Forces Hospitals (2007-9), Max Healthcare (2009-11), 18 Fortis Hospitals (2012-21) and is currently heading the initiative in 37 Manipal Hospitals. His Seth-Donation of Organs and Tissues (S-DOT) score is widely used for assessment of hospitals in best practices. He established IDEAL (Immediate Donation of Eyes After Life) protocol, a nurse-driven process of counselling families for cornea donation in India. Dr. Seth has actively participated in ISODP and TTS Congresses held at Seoul, Geneva, Dubai and Istanbul. He was Chair, Organizing Committee, Commonwealth Tribute to Life conference, New Delhi in March 2024. Dr Seth is member of Apex Technical Committee for National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organization (NOTTO) and is on Advisory Board for organ donation and transplant for states of Haryana and Sikkim. Dr. Seth is the lead author in consensus statements on DCD (2022, 2024) and is Lead, National Consortium for Normothermic Regional Perfusion in India. He has over 100 publications and received National Award by Govt of India in August 2024 for two decades of work in organ donation and transplant. He was awarded Vishist Seva Medal for distinguished service by the President of India in 2009.

Dr Anne Flodén’s career is characterized by significant clinical, educational, administrative, and research achievements. She has brought about transformative changes in healthcare education and practice, particularly in organ donation. Her expertise was shown when assigned to two Swedish Government Investigations, influencing national policy and practice in organ donation, and as Keynote speaker: Innovation in Nursing, 2nd International congress, Istanbul.

Her +40 years clinical background in nursing, including 16 years as Transplant Coordinator at Sahlgrenska University Hospital, is complemented by innovative research. Particularly notable is the development, and implementation in 10 countries, of the instrument to measure Attitudes Toward Organ Donor Advocacy among ICU nurses to understand ICU nurses' professional development needs. She later extended her research tool to include intensivists. Her work also includes studies in the field of DCD, in Sweden and in a Swedish-Spanish collaboration. Dr Flodén engages in research projects across nations including the USA, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, Italy, and the UAE.

Dr.Flodén is now Process Director of Competence Development, Clinical Researcher at South Älvsborg Hospital and Associate Professor at the University of Gothenburg, dedicated to nurturing future medical professionals, pushing boundaries of knowledge of organ donation and transplantation. Dedicated to organ donation as “the gift-of-life”.

Bruce Nicely is a Masters-prepared Registered Nurse and Certified Procurement Transplant Coordinator who has worked in organ procurement for more than three decades. He began his career as a procurement coordinator at an organ procurement organization (OPO) in Virginia before serving as tissue director a North Carolina OPO. For the past 14 years, Bruce has served as vice president, donation optimization for Gift of Life Michigan, the 11th largest OPO in the United States.

Bruce is a firm believer in the strength of diversity and collaboration to build successful partnerships in donation and transplantation in order to save more lives. He has been involved internationally, serving as faculty in the Transplant Procurement Management Course in Barcelona, Spain and has lectured on donor history interviews for the European Association of Tissue Banks in Liverpool, England, and on brain death in Japan.

Deeply passionate about the miracle of transplant made possible by the generosity of donors -- living and deceased -- and their families, he has served on numerous committees nationally for NATCO, the OPTN, AOPO, the Alliance, and others. His dedication to transplantation, coupled with his considerable knowledge and experience, makes him an ideal candidate to serve as councilor for ISODP.

Silvia Perez-Protto, MD, MS, MBA, FCCM is an anesthesiologist-intensivist originally from Uruguay. She worked as an intensivist organ donor coordinator at the Uruguayan National Institute of Donation and Transplantation, conducting more than 100 organ donation interviews. In 2005, she was a Fundación Carolina scholar at the Transplant Services Foundation, Clinic Hospital Universitari, Barcelona-Spain.

Currently, she is an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at the Cleveland Clinic Learner College of Medicine, working as an anesthesiologist-intensivist at the liver transplant intensive care unit. She is the medical director of the End-of-Life center at the Cleveland Clinic, implementing the Advance Care Planning program and the organ donation quality assurance program. She teaches communication skills, including brain death communication, to residents and critical care fellows. She has published several papers related to organ donation epidemiology and donor management. Dr. Perez-Protto served as the Medical Director of Lifebanc Organ Procurement Organization (2024-2025), leading the design and implementation of a new model of intensivists acting as medical directors on call.

he has also served as Cleveland Clinic Bioethics Committee member (2017-2022); Ohio Chapter of the Society of Critical Care Medicine president (2018-2020); Cleveland Clinic Women Professional Staff Association president (2023-2024); and Cleveland Clinic donor council member (2023-present).

Peggy John is the Director of the Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation (OTDT) program at Canadian Blood Services. As the national coordinating agency for OTDT health services in Canada Canadian Blood Services acts as the catalyst, working with provincial partners to develop and provide stakeholders with knowledge, programs, services and supports, to make improvements in OTDT health services for the benefit of patients and ensure trust in the system. Peggy's decades-long career of rich and varied experience began in communications and led to more than 20 years of progressively senior management roles. For the last 15 years she has led or supported work to improve organ and tissue donation and transplantation in Canada both provincially (BC Transplant) and nationally (Canadian Blood Services). During the early stages of the COVID pandemic, Peggy led the OTDT program in supporting the national and international meetings that shaped the community response to the pandemic.