Associate Professor of Medicine and Surgery (Transplant)
Medical Director of Transplant and Oncology Infectious Diseases
Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, USA

Maricar Malinis, MD is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Surgery (Transplant) and the Medical Director of Transplant and Oncology ID at Yale School of Medicine. She completed training in Infectious Diseases, Geriatric Medicine and Transplant Infectious Diseases. She has been active in several national and international societies and had leadership positions in transplant societies. She is currently a councilor of the TID-TTS. She is focused on education and clinical research. The latter is focused on clinical outcomes of infections in aging SOT.

Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL, United States

Scott Borgetti, MD is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the Associate Program Director for the Infectious Diseases fellowship at UIC, an associate director for infection prevention and antimicrobial stewardship and the medical director of the Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy program at UI Health. His clinical and research interests focus on infections that impact immunocompromised hosts including solid organ transplant patients.

Medical Student, University of Illinois
Chicago, IL, United States

Katherine Ortell, MS, is a third-year medical student at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago, IL. She holds a Master's degree in Medical Physiology from the University of Illinois and has a interest in infectious disease, immunology, and autoimmune conditions. Katherine actively contributes to her medical community as a member of the Student Curricular Board, a tutor for the Medical Peer Education Program, and a board member for the New Life Volunteering Society.

Kidney Program Director Associate Professor of Surgery
University of Michigan Transplant Center
Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Danielle Haakinson, M.D. was recently recruited to serve as the Kidney Program Director at the University of Michigan. She completed her transplant surgery fellowship and general surgery residency at Mayo Clinic Arizona and attended the University of Colorado for medical school. Dr. Haakinson is a member of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons and the American Society of Transplantation, having been appointed to multiple committees for both groups including the Vanguard Committee, Legislative and Regulatory Committee, Recovery and Preservation Executive Committee and Scientific Review Committee. She is also a fellow in the American College of Surgeons and a member of the Association for Academic Surgery. She serves on the Transplant Advisory Committee for the National Kidney Foundation and has been acknowledged by that organization with the Excellence in Care Award. Her research interests center on organ assessment and delivery of therapeutics on normothermic machine perfusion, optimizing clinical care of diabetic and obese transplant patients and equity in access to transplantation. Clinically, she specializes in kidney, liver and pancreas transplantation in adults and children, hepatobiliary surgery, donor and native nephrectomy, revisional surgery in transplant patients and robotic surgery. She is known for her expertise in marginal organ utilization and robotic transplant surgery, having started one of the first robotic kidney transplant programs during her time as Living Donor Director at Yale University.

Associate Professor of Medicine
Associate Fellowship Program Director
Division of Infectious Diseases
Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA

Varun Phadke, MD, is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Emory University. Dr. Phadke is a passionate clinician-educator and serves as the Associate Program Director of the Emory ID Fellowship Training Program, for which he created and now leads the Immunocompromised ID Curriculum, as well as Director of the Microbiology Thread for the Emory University School of Medicine, and Assistant Vice Chair of Education for Clinical Reasoning in the Department of Medicine. He previously served as Chair of the Teaching and Learning Resources Workgroup in the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) Medical Education Community of Practice, Chair/Past-Chair of the Education Workgroup within the American Society of Transplantation (AST) ID Community of Practice, and is currently a member of the AST Comprehensive Trainee Curriculum Planning Subcommittee.