Hepatopancreaticobiliary and transplant surgeon , Director of intestinal rehabilitation and transplant unit in Shiraz university of medical sciences

Prof. Dr. Dieter Broering is the Executive Director of the Organ Transplant Centre of Excellence at King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre (KFSH&RC) and a Professor of Surgery at Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, a role he has held since 2010. He graduated in Medicine from the University of Dusseldorf in 1992, became Board Certified in Surgery in Hamburg in 1997, earned his PhD in Surgery (Habilitation) at the University of Hamburg in 2004, and completed a second PhD in Clinical Hepatology at Semmelweis University, Budapest, in 2006. He was elected Fellow of the American College of Surgeons in 2018 and Honorary Fellow of the European Surgical Association in 2024.

• Prof. of Nephrology and EX chief of nephrology and transplantation unit at Urology & Nephrology Center, Mansoura University, Egypt.
• President, the Egyptian Society of Nephrology & Transplantation (ESNT) President, Transplantation Chapter (ESNT)
• Editor-in-Chief, Journal of the Egyptian Society of Nephrology & Transplantation (JESNT)
• Editor-in-Chief, Arab Journal of Nephrology & Transplantation (AJNT) Chair of Research & Ethics Committee, African Association of Nephrology (AFRAN)
• Member, Supreme committee of Organ Transplantation, MOH, Egypt Prof. Refaie’s main fields of clinical and basic research are nephrology, dialysis, kidney transplantation and stem cell research for treatment of diabetes mellitus. He has authored or co-authored more than 110 articles published in high ranked international journals.

Alireza Bagheri MD., PhD, is physician-clinical ethicist. He currently provides clinical ethics consultation for the health authority in Canada.Dr. Bagheri was an assistant professor of medicine and medical ethics, school of medicine, Tehran University of medical Sciences, Iran. He has served as an expert member on government committees on policy issues such as organ transplantation.Dr. Bagheri served as a member of the UNESCO International Bioethics Committee (2010-2018), in which he led a working group on Organ, Cells and Tissue Transplantation and Trafficking. He was also a member of the steering committee of the Istanbul Declaration.As a temporary adviser to WHO, he has participated in the efforts to regulate requirements for Xenotransplantation Clinical Trials. Dr. Bagheri served as a member of the ethics committee of MESOT and The Transplantation Society and the board of International Bioethics Association (2008-214). As a palliative care physician, he brings extensive clinical experience to bioethical discussions as well as promoting close attention to the socio-cultural context especially in clinical decision making.Dr. Bagheri co-chaired the Asian Task Force on Organ Trafficking, which resulted, The Asian Task Force Recommendations on the Prohibition, Prevention and Elimination of Organ Trafficking in Asia, in 2008. Dr. Bagheri has published numerous articles and editorials in peer reviewed journals, such as Lancet, Journal of Medicine, Healthcare and Philosophy, Bioethics, Journal of Medical Ethics. He has published six books on different bioethical topics.

Professor Masri, PhD in Medical Immunopathology;CEO Transmedical For Life, the President of the Mediterranean Transplant Network (MTN), past president of the Middle East Society of Organ Transplantation (MESOT), and the Past President of the Asian Society of Transplantation (AST). Member of the Declaration of Istanbul custodian group (DICG), the International Transplant Society (TTS) ethics committee member. Associate Editor Experimental and Clinical Transplantation, Drug and Therapeutic, I.J. of Enzymology, and China Medical Journal, serving on many editorial boards for international medical journals such as Transplantation Proceedings and was its guest editor for the years 2002, 2003, 2010, and 2013. 1. Recognitions medal of honor Canadian armed forces (medical)2. Lifelong Achievement in Transplantation3. Outstanding Contributions to Research in TransplantationServed as Head of Laboratories at Rizk Hospital (Beirut, Lebanon), Director of Transplant Unit, Mafraq Hospital, Abu Dhabi, UAE, and Director, Emirates Institute For Medical Research, Abu Dhabi, UAE, Was a Professor at the Medical School, University of the United Arab Emirates, Al Ain, UAE. Worked as a consultant/Advisor for many international pharmaceutical companies such as Sandoz Pharma (Novartis) Switzerland, for IVAX Corporation USA, for Global Pharmaceuticals (Switzerland), for Roche Pharmaceutical Switzerland, for Exir Pharma Iran, for Sigma pharma, Brazil, Allmed Laboratories Pakistan, Mission Pharmaceutical Pakistan, Medis Pharmaceutical Tunisia and Benta Trading S.A.L Lebanon. Over 100 publications in international journals. Experienced in designing, protocol writing, and performing of clinical trials. Performed as a principal investigator in over 50 clinical trials, many of which are multi-center and multinational.

Dr. Oriol Bestard is Chief of department of Nephrology and Kidney transplantation at Vall d-Hebron University Hospital and Associate Professor of Medicine at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. He leads a Translational Research Laboratory at Vall d`Hebron Research Institute (VHIR). After doing the Nephrology Residency at Bellvitge University Hospital in Barcelona, Spain, he did his PhD in Transplant Immunology at Charité University Hospital in Berlin, Germany, and subsequently performed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Multiorgan Transplant Research Laboratory at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), in San Francisco, USA.

President Elect, Asian Society of Transplantation, Consultant Surgeon and Chairman, Hamed Al-Essa Organ Procurement Center, Ministry of Health, Kuwait

Dr. Ejaz Ahmed is consultant nephrologist, and professor of nephrology at SIUT Karachi Pakistan. He is a fellow of Royal College of physicians UK. He has vast experience in managing chronic Glomerular diseases. He has published numerous articles in peer reviewed journals on various aspects of Renal Transplantation. He is immediate past president of Pakistan society of Nephrology and has served as general secretary of Asian society of transplantation. He is current chair of bye law and membership committee of Asian society of transplantation.

Professor of Medicine and Nephrology Lebanese Faculty of Medical Sciences Director, Renal Transplant Unit Rafik Hariri University Hospital. Nephrology Senior Consultant Clemenceau Medical Center

Professor of Paediatric Hepatology and Directs the Kings Cell therapy unit. He also Head, Department of Paediatric Liver GI - Nutrition and Mowat Labs, King’s College Hospital, London.

Estephan Arredondo, BS, MSc, is a biologist specialized in Organ, Tissue, and Cell Donation from the University of Barcelona. He is the Co-founder and Technical Director of Cytes Biotechnologies, a spin-off company devoted to human tissue procurement, primary cell isolation, and the development of advanced in vitro models for preclinical research.

He currently serves as Chair of the Allied Health Professionals Committee of The Transplantation Society (TTS), where he leads initiatives to foster international collaboration, training, and knowledge exchange among multidisciplinary teams engaged in organ donation and transplantation.

His professional expertise focuses on building sustainable networks for human tissue procurement, with particular emphasis on the isolation and translational use of human liver cells. He has actively contributed to several European and international cooperation projects aimed at strengthening organ and tissue donation systems, with notable engagement in the Black Sea Area and the Middle East.

Drirector of Solid Organ Transplantation Center - Shiraz, IRAN

• Director's Office Manager of Cardiovascular & Kidney Transplant & Transplant Coordinator
• Director's Office from 2021 until present.
• Transplant Coordinator from 2025 until present
• Translator from 2018 until 2022
• Secretary of English Department from 2017 until 2019
• Head of IT & Training Unit from 2012 until 2015
• Human Resource Officer from 2011 until 2012

Senior Organ Procurement Specialist- HEOPC, MOH Kuwait

Pulmonary and Lung Transplant Consultant, Organ Transplant Centre of Excellence, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaAdjunct Associate Professor, College of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Director of Vietnam National Coordinating Center for Human Organ Transplantation

• Head of Oncology and Radiation Therapy, Viet Duc University Hospital, Hanoi, Vietnam.
• Deputy Director of Vietnam National Coordinating Center for Human Organ Transplantation.
• Organ Transplant Coordinator

Associated Professor of Surgery, in the filed of hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery and liver transplantation, shulan (hangzhou) hospital, China

Associate Professor is a liver transplantation surgeon in Second Xiangya Hospital in China

Professor, Department of Nephrology and Transplantation IKDRC-ITS, Ahmedabad, India

Professor Terence Kee is a senior consultant renal physician with interest in kidney, pancreas, and uterus transplantation. He obtained his MBBS at the Flinders University of South Australia in 1994 and by 2000 completed the Singapore General Hospital basic and advanced physician training in general and renal medicine. He subsequently received a Singapore Government Human Manpower Development Program Award in 2004 to undergo a 1-year clinical fellowship in advanced renal transplantation under Professor Jeremy Chapman at the Westmead Hospital in Sydney, Australia. He returned to SGH in 2005 and became director of the kidney transplant program in 2008 ever since.

Under his leadership, many milestones in kidney transplantation at SGH was achieved such as the first ABO-incompatible kidney transplant, the first dual deceased kidney donor transplant, the first ABO and HLA incompatible kidney transplant, paired kidney donor exchange and kidney transplantation using hepatitis B and human immunodeficiency virus positive kidney donors. New transplantation technologies and treatments were also introduced such as double filtration plasmaphresis, immunoadsorption and novel biologics to prevent and treat rejection of the kidney transplant. Professor Terence Kee also assisted in performing the first ABO-incompatible liver transplantation and assist in an advisory capacity for other transplant programs. Professor Terence Kee has also served in many leadership positions including Associate Program Director of the SingHealth Residency in Internal Medicine, Director of Clinical Service Planning and Special Projects for the Sengkang Hospital Planning Committee, Deputy Director of Research and Education at SingHealth Transplant and Clinical Director of Transplant Centre. He has also served as Chairman of the Chapter of Renal Physicians of Singapore, President of the Society of Transplantation of Singapore, President of the College of Physicians and sit as a council member of the Asian Society of Transplantation and the ASEAN Federation of Internal Medicine. Professor Terence Kee is also an academician, having published over 90 papers, a textbook in nephrology and a history book of the development of nephrology in Singapore.

Deputy Director, Organ Donation Centre, Thai Red Cross Society, Thailand

Director of the Organ Procurement Unit of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Iran

Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery & Liver Transplantation Center, Shulan (Hangzhou) Hospital, China

Professor of Nephrology at Iran University of Medical Sciences, Dr. Shokoufeh Savaj is Vice President of the Iranian Society of Nephrology and a past Council Member of the International Society of Nephrology (ISN) representing the Middle East. She is currently based at Hashemi Nejad Hospital, where she continues her clinical and academic work in nephrology and transplantation. With more than 25 years of experience, she was instrumental in establishing the dialysis center and kidney transplant program at Firoozgar Hospital and has authored over 40 publications in the field.

Chair of Gastroenterology & Hepatology and Medical Director of Liver Transplantation at CCAD, UAE

Professor of Medicine in Iran University of Medical Sciences. President of the Iranian Society of Nephrology, Iran

Director of the Mechanical Circulatory Support Program and Director of the Program of Active Cardiac Implant Technologies, Germany

Dr. Sanjay Nagral Director of the Department of Surgical Gastroenterology at Jaslok Hospital & Research Centre, Mumbai, India

Solid Organ Transplant Pharmacotherapy specialist - CCAD - UAE

Assistant Manager and Senior Tissue Bank Technologist, Sri Lanka

I am a renal and cardiovascular pathologist with an interest in leadership and the use of artificial intelligence in medicine. My focus is on advancing diagnostic pathology and exploring how AI-driven innovations can transform healthcare and improve patient outcomes.

Dr. Saja Surour is a Kidney transplant consultant surgeon, and the Head of Organ Transplant Department at Jaber Al-Ahmed Hospital, ministry of health, Kuwait since 2022. She started her clinical career after being qualified from the Arabian Gulf University, Bahrain in 2006. After she finished the post graduate Kuwaiti board in general surgery in 2014, she joined the organ transplant department at Hamid AlEssa Center in Kuwait in 2016. She was trained at Royal free hospital-London, UK on kidney transplant and vascular access surgery in 2019 and now completing her felloweship on kidney transplant at Florence Nightingale Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey. Her Main interest is kidney transplantation and laparoscopic donor nephrectomy surgeries with active involvement on program leadership. She is a board member of both the Kuwait organ transplant association and the women surgeons of Kuwait association.

Manager of Prince Abdulmajeed Dialysis Center-Diaverum, Jeddah, KSA

Head of Centre for Transplantation in the UCL Department of Kidney & Bladder Health, and Deputy Head, Centre for Surgical Innovation, Organ Repair and Transplantation, Division of Surgery and Interventional Science, UCL, UK

Dr. Refaat Kamel MBBCh, F.R.C.S, F.I.C.S., M.D., Hon EBT is the President of the Middle East Society of Organ Transplantation (M.E.S.O.T.) and Council Member of LDLT Study Group. Dr. Kamel is the Chair of Surgical Departments and Head of Hepato-Bilio-Pancreatic Surgery Department at Ain Shams University.

His clinical positions include: Director of the National Liver Transplant program; Chief liver transplant surgeon in three leading liver transplant programs in Egypt since 2001 with an overall experience of more than 1000 cases of Living Donor Liver Transplants; Chairman of Refaat Kamel hospital for hepatobiliary and liver transplantation Surgery; Honorary fellow of the European Board of Transplantation; Secretary-general of the Egyptian Section of the International College of Surgeons.

Editor in the Experimental and Clinical Transplantation Journal; Editor in International Surgery; Egypt representative in the Mediterranean Transplant Network 2006-2010; Board member for establishing the organ donation law in 2010 in the Parliament; Head of the communication committee in the supreme Egyptian council of organ transplantation (2006-2010); TTS councilor 2008-2010; Member of the Istanbul Declaration on organ trafficking and Transplant tourism and member of the custodian group.

Dr. Kamel has published more than 100 papers in local and International Journals.

Consultant and Head of Transplant Infectious Diseases, Deputy Executive Director at the Organ Transplant Center of Excellence, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center (KFSHRC), KSA

Vice Chancellor, Gujarat University of Transplantation Sciences, India

Manager of the Sri Lanka Human Tissue Bank, Sri Lanka

Senior Consultant Nephrologist and Renal Transplant Specialist, Eastern India

Professor of Nephrology and Clinical Immunology at the Hospices Civils de Lyon and Claude Bernard University Lyon, France

Professor of Nephrology and Head of the Department of Nephrology and Organ Transplantation at Toulouse University Hospital, France

Dr. Naser Simforoosh is the President of Iranian Kidney Transplantation Society. Founder and Chairman Department of Urology and kidney transplantation at Center of Excellence in Urology in Tehran, Iran

Director of Medical Laboratories Al-Rashid Allergic Diseases Center, Head of Immunology & Histocompatibility Unit Kuwait Cancer Control Center, Program Director -Clinical Immunology Diagnostics Kuwait Institute of Medical Specialization, Member of Board of Directors, Arabian Society of Histocompatibility & Immunogenomics

Dr. MUNA A.RAHMAN S.AL.MASLAMANI is a distinguished healthcare leader, currently serving as CEO and Medical Director of Communicable Disease Center and Hamad General Hospital. With expertise in Transplant Infectious Diseases, she is a Senior Consultant and Assistant Head of Infectious Diseases Division–Medicine Department as well as Infectious Disease Fellowship Program Director. She also holds the position of Acting Chairperson of the Corporate Department of Emergency Medicine at Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar.

With a strong academic foundation, Dr. Al Maslamani holds an MSc in Healthcare Management from RCSI, an MBBS degree, an Infectious Disease Diploma from RCSI and an IHI Fellowship. Additionally, she is a Fellow of the Infectious Disease Society of America (FIDSA) and holds Arab Board Medical Specialization certification in Internal Medicine

Dr. Al Maslamani’s leadership extends beyond clinical practice, she serves as Assistant-Chairperson for Quality and Patient Safety–Medicine, holds academic positions as Adjunct Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q) and Clinical Professor in Medicine (Infectious Disease) at Qatar University's College of Medicine. She is also the National Lead for National Programs by Ministry of Public Health such as STI and EMTCT.

Her dedication to improving patient care is evident through her involvement in the Clinical Care Improvement Training Program (CCITP) and the IHI Best Care Always Campaign, which have led to over 55 Quality Improvement Projects. She has over 150 publications, collaborates internationally, and is a sought-after conference speaker.

Dr. Muna Al Maslamani epitomizes the essence of leadership, innovation, and compassion in healthcare, inspiring her peers and colleagues to strive for excellence in patient care and medical research.

Professor and Head of the Department of Histopathology and Head of the Division of Clinical Laboratory Sciences at the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT), Karachi, Pakistan

Chairman & Managing Director - Dr.Rela Institute & Medical Centre, India

Director Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics Laboratory, KSA.

Senior consultant Hepato-Pancreato-Billiary & Multi organ Transplant Surgery in King Fahad Specialist hospital-AlDammam, KSA. President PAN ARAB Liver Transplantation Society

Senior Consultant in Nephrology, Hypertension and Renal Transplant. Specialty Hospital, Amman, Jordan.President of the MESOT

Professor of Internal Medicine and Nephrology, National Institute of Urology and Nephrology (NIUN), Cairo, EgyptDean of the National Institute of Urology and Nephrology ISN Africa Regional Board Councillor/ChairISN transplantation working group Chair.

• Chairman & Managing Director – Dr.Rela Institute & Medical Centre, India.
• President Elect -International Living Donor Liver Transplantation Group (iLDLT Group)
• Councilor for The Transplantation Society (TTS) - South/Southeast Asia
• Past President – Liver Transplant Society of India ( LTSI)
• Associate Editor – American Journal of Transplantation
• Past President International Liver Transplantation Society (ILTS)
• Founder & Trustee – National Foundation for Liver Research (NFLR)
• He has authored over 900 peer-reviewed publications which includes over 18,500 citations and has an H Index of 69
• Authored over 35 book chapters including a chapter in the latest edition of Gray’s Anatomy and Bailey & Love's Short Practice of Surgery
• Dr.Rela has performed over 6000 liver transplantations and runs one of the busiest liver transplantation program India, performing over 300 liver transplants each year.
• Dr. Rela has received over 20 International Awards & Honors and holds the Guinness Book of record for performing liver transplant on a 5 days old Child in 1997

Clinical Advisor, Vice President of Medical and Health Sciences, Qatar University and Professor of Immunology, College of Medicine, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

Associate Professor, Potiguar University, Brazil. Senior Consultant in Organ Donation & Transplantation, DTI Foundation, Spain

Founder of the Transplant Procurement Management and President of the DTI Foundation, Barcelona, Spain

Lkhaakhuu Od-Erdene is a nephrology doctor and transplant surgeon from Mongolia, with affiliations at the First Central Hospital of Mongolia and as part of the Asian Transplant Registry Group. He has research interests in transplant medicine and has published papers on kidney transplantation outcomes in Mongolia and the impact of COVID-19 on transplantation in Asia. He has also completed training fellowships at Seoul National University Hospital.

Head of Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation UK

Professor of Medicine at the division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, South Korea

Heart failure and Cardiology consultant, Kuwait

Director of Organ donation and Transplantation of the Ministry of Health of Iran

Director of the Kidney Transplant, Program at the Toronto General Hospital, Canada

Director of the UChicago Medicine Transplantation Institute, USA.President TTS

Research Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong

Chair Australian Bone Marrow Donor Registry, Chair Vigilance and Safety Expert Advisory Committee, OTA, Australia .

Professor, Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Severance Hospital, Korea.

Professor and Chief Expert of the General Hospital of the Southern Theater Command of PLA. Chairman, Guangdong Provincial Society of Tissue and Organ Donation-CHINA

Associate Professor in Department of Liver Surgery, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, China

Regional Manager of Organ Donation in Dubai at the UAE National Centre for Regulating Donation and Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues, UAE

Dr. Hasan AlEid Transplant NephrologistSection head adult kidney and pancreas health center.King Faisal Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, KSA

• Primary,Preparatory and Secondary School Saint Family-Jesuites in Cairo Egypt(1961-1973)
• MBBch Faculty ofMedicine ,Cairo University with Excellent degree –December 1979
• Military Service Status: Finally Exempted
• Master of Internal Medicine with thesis in Nepherology”Autonomic Neuropathy in Chronic Kidney Disease”,Cairo University with Excellent degree-May 1983
• Registrar,Senior Registrar and lecturer in Medicine and nephrology-Nephrology Department Cairo University 1980-1993
• Medical Doctorate Degree in Internal Medicine with thesis in Nephrology”Plasmapheresis for resistant uremic manifestations”,Cairo University with Excellent degree-May 1988
• Training in Nephrology:Necker Hospital in Paris –France with Prof.Henry Kreiss 1993
• Assisstant Professor of Medicine and Nephrology-Nephrology department Cairo 1993-1998 then professor 1999-2015
• TrainingCourses in Nephrology,Massachusetts Hospital-Boston USA 1998
• Transplantation updates in Hopital Delmar Barcelona-Spain 2014 and 2017
• Emeritus Professor of Medicine and Nephrology –Cairo University Egypt from 2015 till now

Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at American University of Beirut, Lebanon

Senior Lecturer at Internal Medicine Department, Division of Nephrology, Hanoi Medical University, Vietnam. Vice-President of Vietnam Society of Organ Transplantation.

Professor of Diversity in Public Health and Director, Organ Donation & Transplant Research Centre, University of Bedfordshire, UK

Director, Medical City Heart Failure Program Cardiovascular Institute. Philippines

Department of Surgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Korea

Director of Western Renal Service at Westmead Hospital. Co-Chair of the Women in Transplantation.

Consultant in Surgical Pathology in Urological and Nephro pathology, King Hamad University Hospital -Royal Medical Services. Bahrain.

Dr. Fatemah Hadi is a senior specialist of cardiology specializing in advanced heart failure, cardiac transplantation, and pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). She pursued her adult cardiology fellowship at KKUH in Riyadh (SCHSP) and further specialized in advanced heart failure and cardiac transplant at UBC, Canada.

Dr. Hadi currently leads the Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Clinic at the Chest Disease Hospital in Kuwait, overseeing LVAD care, transplant evaluations, and post-transplant follow-up. She also runs a weekly pulmonary hypertension as a part of Pulmonary Vascular Team in CDH. Furthermore, she has a dedicated weekly right heart catheterization list for advanced therapy assessment in advanced heart, lung and liver disease including confirming and hemodynamically classifying pulmonary hypertension.

Consultant Transplant Hepatologist & Gastroenterologist at King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center in Riyadh, KSA

Medical Director, Lung transplant program at CCAD, UAE

Regional Business Manager at XVIVO, overseeing distribution markets across Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. With a background as Transplant Coordinator at the University Medical Centre Groningen, he brings extensive expertise in organ allocation, procurement, and machine preservation systems. Passionate about advancing organ transplantation through innovation, training, and international collaboration.

Clinical Specialist at XVIVO

Fellow, European Board of Surgery -UEMS. Consultant Nephrology-Hospital Clinic and Associate Professor, Surgical Department, University of Barcelona, Spain.

Clinical Lead for the HPB and Liver Transplant Service at the Royal Free Hospital, London

Director of the Comprehensive Hernia and Core Health Center - CCAD / Chairperson of the Emirati General Surgery Society- Scientific Committee, UAE

Secretary-General, AST President, Raphael Nanum Foundation, Raphael International, Korea

Consultant Transplant Surgeon at Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmed Al Sabah Hospital, Kuwait.

Organ Procurement Coordinator Organ and Tissue Donation Agency, Korea

Senior officer at Regulatory department and responsible continuous education courses coordination about organ, tissues and cells donation and transplantation and projects. Mongolia

Prof. Bassam Saeed is President and Founder of Farah Association for Child with kidney disease in Syria. Chair of the Middle East Regional Board of ISN, Damascus-Syria

Professor of Medicine and Chairman of the Liver and Small Bowel Health Centre at King Faisal Special Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Head of advanced heart failure and transplant unit at Dabbous Cardiac Center, Adan hospital, Kuwait

Director of the Transplant Laboratory at Alberta Precision and Laboratories at the University of Alberta Hospital in Edmonton, Canada

Founder, CEO and Production Manager, Iranian Tissue Product Co- Tehran - Iran

He was born in 1949 in Boyerahmad, southwestern Iran. After graduation from Tehran and Shiraz Universities of Medical Sciences, He participated from 1990 to 1992 in a fellowship training program in liver transplantation in Pittsburgh, USA, where he had the opportunity to work with a number of eminent scholars like Dr. Thomas Starzl.

Since the beginning of his career, more than three decades ago, his major concern has been to establish the necessary infrastructures for a network in the region for the procurement of organs from brain-dead donors to put an end to organ selling in Iran and open avenues for transplantation of other organs. Currently, he is the director of the largest solid organ transplantation center in the world in Shiraz, southern Iran—the Avicenna Organ Transplantation Institute, the largest charity foundation in the region.

Over the past years, his endeavors have been acknowledged by several national and international bodies. In January 2020, he was awarded the honorary fellowship of the American College of Surgeons. His vision is to promote our transplant center in Shiraz to an internationally recognized university in the forthcoming decade.

Dr. Ala Ali MDFISN, FEBS (Kidney Transplantation), FASN, FACP, FRCPE/LHead of Medical Department, Nephrology and Renal Transplantation Centre, Medical City Teaching Hospital, Baghdad, Iraq Consultant Nephrologist and Transplant Physician, and heads the Medical Department at the Nephrology and Renal Transplantation Center, The Medical City, Baghdad, Iraq. He earned his medical degree from Babylon University in 1999, with board certifications in Internal Medicine in 2007 and Adult Nephrology in 2011. He also completed an ERA Fellowship in 2013 at the Royal London Hospital. After completing the ESOT educational pathway, he was certified by the European Board of Transplant Medicine in 2015. He currently serves on The Transplantation Society\'s Education Committee, is Vice President of the Middle East Society of Organ Transplantation, and contributes to the International Society of Nephrology (ISN) online Education team as an ISN Middle East regional board member.

Consultant of HPB and Organ Transplantation Surgery at the King Fahad Specialist Organ Transplant Center, KSA

Professor Dr. Ahmed Mostafa is a distinguished medical expert with over two decades of specialized experience in transplant immunopathology. He earned his medical degree from Cairo University, followed by a Ph.D. from Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. Dr. Mostafa further advanced his expertise through postdoctoral and clinical fellowship training in histocompatibility and Immunogenetics at the University of Calgary. Dr Mostafa is a fellow of the American College of Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics (ACHI), and also certified by the American Society of Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics (ASHI). His prolific research has led to numerous publications in leading medical journals, and he has been honored with several prestigious awards for his contributions to the field. Currently, Dr. Mostafa serves as an Associate Professor of Pathology at the University of Saskatchewan’s College of Medicine and as Clinical Director and Consultant of the HLA Laboratory at St. Paul’s Hospital in Saskatoon, Canada. Additionally, he is the Provincial Co-Lead for Genomics at the Saskatchewan Health Authority. Dr. Mostafa has mentored over 40 students, fellows, and residents, and has delivered more than 100 international presentations, further solidifying his reputation as a leader in histocompatibility and Immunogenetics.

Professor of Urology and Kidney Transplantation - Jaber Al Ahmad Hospital, Kuwait

Professor of Pathology and Transplant Immunology, Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT), Karachi, Pakistan