Professor of Health Ethics and Professionalism
School of Medicine, Deakin University, Australia

Dominique E. Martin, MBBS, BA(Hons Phil), PhD, is Professor of Health Ethics and Professionalism in the School of Medicine at Deakin University in Australia. Her research focuses on ethical issues in nephrology, organ and tissue donation and transplantation, and on professionalism in healthcare.

Dominique led the development of the 2025 National Health and Medical Research Council Ethical guidelines for organ, cell and tissue donation and transplantation in Australia. She is a member of the inaugural Lancet Commission for Transplantation and of the World Health Organization (WHO) Expert Advisory Panel on Donation and Transplantation. She is currently an Associate Editor of Transplantation, and a member of the Transplantation Working Group of the International Society of Nephrology.

Professor of Medicine Medicine School
Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico, Campus Mexico City

Josefina Alberú, MD, was staff member of the Transplantation Department at the Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán (INCMNSZ) in Mexico City since 1989 to 2018 and Head of the foregoing Department from 1995 to May 2012 and Professor of Transplantation at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. She graduated from Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara, Mexico, with the highest honors in her generation.

Her primary aspiration has been training a substantial amount of residents in renal transplantation, who are presently heads of various government transplant programs across Mexico.

During previous years she has served as president of the Mexican Institute for Nephrological Research and of the Medical Association of the INCMNSZ, and vice president of the Latin America and the Caribbean Society of Transplantation. She is a founding member of the Mexican Society of Transplantation, president of this Society during the years 2018-2019. She is an active member of the National System of Investigators (CONACYT). She has previously served as a member of the AST’s Women’s Health Community of Practice and as a member of the Steering Committee for “Women in Transplantation” of the Transplant Society. She became honorary member of the American Surgical Association in 2012. In September 2022, during the International Congress of the Transplantation Society, she was nominated Living Legend by the Ad Hoc Committee of The Transplantation Society. Currently, she is Professor of Medicine at Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico City Campus; she is also a professor of the doctorate in bioethics at the Universidad Panamericana in Mexico City.

Her fields of investigation are varied and include the clinical and epidemiological aspects of renal transplantation, receiving funds from the National Council on Science and Technology. During her professional career she has authored more than 180 articles and book chapters in the field of transplantation, and has participated in numerous national and international meetings.

Executive Secretary of the European Committee on Organ, Tissues and Cells (CD-P-TO)
European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines & HealthCare (EDQM), Council of Europe
Strasbourg, France

Marta López Fraga, Ph.D. is responsible for organ donation and transplantation activities at the European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines & HealthCare (EDQM) of the Council of Europe.

She holds a Ph.D. in Immunology from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain). Following postdoctoral research at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology (USA) and several years in biomedical research and biotechnology, she joined the Council of Europe in 2011.

Since then, she has served as Secretary to the European Committee on Organs, Tissues and Cells (CD-P-TO), the Council of Europe's intergovernmental committee responsible for organ, tissue and cell donation and transplantation. The Committee promotes the non-commercialisation of donation, combats trafficking in organs, tissues and cells, and develops ethical, quality and safety standards in the field.

Dr López Fraga has contributed to several key international instruments aimed at preventing and combating transplant-related crimes, including the Council of Europe Convention against Trafficking in Human Organs, the 2018 edition of the Declaration of Istanbul, and the World Medical Association Statement on Measures for the Prevention and Fight Against Transplant-Related Crimes. She also led the establishment of the Council of Europe International Network of National Focal Points on Travel for Transplantation (NETTA), the first international mechanism for the systematic collection and exchange of data on travel for transplantation. Through NETTA, member States collaborate to improve understanding of cross-border transplantation activities, strengthen transparency, identify emerging trends and support action against transplant trafficking and transplant tourism.

Dr. Benita Padilla is a nephrologist who works at the National Kidney and Transplant Institute, the Philippines’ leading center for transplantation. In 2008, she was president of the Philippine Society of Nephrology and was a participant in the Istanbul Summit. In the ensuing years, she has continued to advocate for the ethical practice of transplantation and fight against organ trafficking in the Philippines. She is currently a member of the executive committee of the Declaration of Istanbul Custodian Group, a member of the WHO Task Force on Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues and co-chair of the Asian Society of Transplantation Ethics Committee.

Co-Chair Declaration of Istanbul Custodian Group
Senior Advisor Kidney SWT
Swisstransplant

Dr Mueller received his medical degree in Marburg, Germany. His postgraduate training included internal medicine, intensive care, nephrology and three postdoc years at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. From 2004 to 2013, he had a clinical appointment at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, with a research focus on gene expression in renal transplantation.

From 2014 to 2023, he was lead attending at the University Clinic in Zürich, with key responsibilities for the transplant program and national kidney paired exchange. In the last 2.5 years he served as interim Head of the Nephrology University Clinic. Currently he works as Co-Chair for the Declaration of Istanbul Custodian group, as Senior Advisor Kidney for Swiss Transplant and part-time in a private nephrology practice. His research includes molecular diagnostics in transplantation and renal functional reserve testing.

Chief, Centro de Trasplante Hepático y Cirugìa Hepatobiliar Hospital Mexico