Clinical Director, Transplant Infectious Disease
Department of Medicine, Infectious Disease Division
Massachusetts General Hospital

Camille Nelson Kotton is the clinical director of the Transplant and Immunocompromised Host Infectious Diseases Program in the Infectious Diseases Division at Massachusetts General Hospital, and an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA. She has worked in the field of transplantation since 2001. She was the president of the TTS Transplant Infectious Disease Section (2007-2014), chair of the American Society of Transplantation Infectious Disease Executive Committee (2014-2016), and served as councilor for TTS (2020-2024), on the TTS Fundraising Committee, and co-chair of the TTS Education Committee since 2022. She has led four versions of the TTS-supported International Consensus Guidelines on CMV Management after Solid Organ Transplant (2008, 2012, 2017, 2024) and co-led the Second International Consensus Guidelines on the Management of BK Polyomavirus in Kidney Transplantation (2024), all published in Transplantation, where she serves as associate editor. She has a special interest in international transplant work and was integrally involved in the TTS-supported guidelines on Recommendations for Management of Endemic Diseases and Travel Medicine in Solid-Organ Transplant Recipients and Donors: Latin America (2018) and South Asian Transplant Infectious Disease Guidelines for Solid Organ Transplant Candidates, Recipients, and Donors (2023).

Director & Head Nephrology
Medanta Medicity, Gurugram, India

Dr Shyam B Bansal is the Director and Head of Nephrology at Medanta Institute of Nephrology and Kidney Transplant. Dr Bansal has been involved in the care of more than 3000 kidney transplant recipients till now. He is also the Honorary Secretary of the Indian Society of Nephrology. He has received fellowships of the Indian Society of Nephrology, the Indian society of Organ Transplantation, the American Society of Nephrology and the Royal College of Physicians (London). He is currently a member of the South Asian Regional Board of the International Society of Nephrology (ISN) and a member of the Education Committee of The Transplantation Society (TTS). He is the chair of local organizing working group of World Congress of Nephrology, 2025 to be held in Delhi. Dr Bansal is has published more than 70 original articles and many book chapters in the field of Nephrology and kidney transplantation. He has extensively published on post-transplant infections including Mucormycosis, histoplasmosis, leishmaniasis, Dengue etc. Recently he published a supplementation on Transplant Infectious Disease Guidelines for South Asia in the Indian Journal of Transplantation as guest editor and as summary of these guidelines were published in Transplantation.

Professor, Department of Nephrology
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Dr. Soumita Bagchi is a professor of Nephrology at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India. She has clinical and research interests in Kidney transplantation with a focus on post-transplant infections.

Consultant Surgeon – Abdominal Transplant Unit
Groote Schuur Hospital / University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa

Laurie Bertels, FCS(SA), MMED(Surg), is a consultant Surgeon in the abdominal Transplant Unit at Groote Schuur Hospital and University of Cape Town Private Academic Hospital, in Cape Town, South Africa. Dr Bertels is also the clinical co-ordinator for the HIV-positive to HIV-positive renal transplant programme.

Affiliate Professo, Nephrolog
São Paulo, Brazil

Helio Tedesco Silva Junior, MD, PhD, is an Affiliate Professor of the Nephrology Division at the Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, Brazil. He is also editor of Transplantation±, Transplantation Reports and Transplantation Proceedings. Dr. Tedesco Silva is a member of the Brazilian Society of Nephrology, Brazilian Society of Organ Transplantation, American Society of Transplantation and The Transplantation Society.

Mehta Hospital, Chennai, India

Vice Chairman, Department of Nephrology
Muljibhai Patel Urological Hospital
Nadiad, Gujarat, India

Umapati Hegde, MD, DNB (Nephrology), is a Consultant nephrologist and vice chairman of the Department of Nephrology at Muljibhai Patel Urological Hospital, Nadiad, Gujarat, India, which is a nephrology (DNB) training centre.

• International Society of Nephrology Fellowship from the University of Arkansas, USA
• Presently, Secretary of the Indian Society of Nephrology, West Zone chapter
• Past Chairman of the Scientific Committee, ISN West Zone chapter
• Member of the Scientific Committee, Indian Society of Nephrology
• Chairman of Ethics Committee, Bhaikaka University, Karamsad, Gujarat