Marcelo Cantarovich, MD (Buenos Aires, Argentina), nephrology/transplant fellow (Paris, France), FRCPC (Canada), is Professor of Medicine, and Associate Director (Multi-Organ Transplant Program) at McGill University (Montreal, Canada). He currently serves as TTS President. His research focuses on multi-organ transplantation, immunopharmacology and renal protection strategies. He has published over 140 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals. He is past President of the Canadian Society of Transplantation (CST); chaired/co-chaired the TTS and the CST Education Committee, CST Fellows’ Symposium and CST Congress, the AST Clinical Trials Symposium, TTS Post-Graduate Course (2010, 2016, 2018, 2020). He is the Chair of the TTS 2022 Congress in Buenos Aires. His primary focus is continuing education for young and established TTS members and increase global access to transplantation.

MD, PhD, anesthesiologist, is Assessor on Transplantation, Medical Direction, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona; Associate Professor, Medical School, University of Barcelona; and President of the TPM-DTI Foundation, Past President ISODP-TTS and TTS European Councilor. He created the deceased and living donation program in the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona in 1985and the TSF multi-tissue bank in 1994. He is an expert in organ and tissue donation, training donor procurement, and tissue banking at national and international level. Among the most important positions he has occupied, he was the former president of the European Transplant Coordinators Organization (ETCO, the former vice president of the European Association of Tissue Banks (EATB) and, from 2015 until September 2017, he was the President of the International Society for Organ Donation and Procurement (ISODP). He is currently European Councilor of The Transplantation Society (TTS) for 2018-2022 and Chair of the TTS Anesthesia and Critical Care Committee (2020-2022).

Dr. Annabel Blasi Ibañez is a consultant in the department of anaesthesiology at the Hospital Clinic in Barcelona. She practices Anesthesia in Hepatobiliary Surgery and Liver Transplant.  She has a research fellowship in Surgical Laboratory Transplant Research from the University of California,  San Francisco (UCSF). Her mentor is Dr. Niemann. She has a research stay at the Surgical Research Laboratory and Section of Hepatobiliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation at the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG). The Netherlands. Her mentor is Prof T. Lisman.

Dr. Blasi’s field of interests are liver surgery and liver transplantation, coagulation in liver disease and thromboelastrmetry.

She is a research member of it he section of liver transplantation and graft viability section.  IDIBAPS (Institute Biomedical Research Aguistí Pi Sunyé), a member of the Working Group appointed by the National Transplant Organization to develop the Guidelines for Perioperative management of liver transplant recipient  from donor after cardiac deathNational Health Department of Spain, Vice Chair of the Anesthesia and Critical Care Committee ILTS (International Liver Transplant Society) from 2017, Council of LICAGE (Liver Intensive Care  Group for the study of the Liver Disease) from 2016, Committee of Anesthesia and Critical Care Commitee of TTS (The Transplant Society) from 2021.