Evolving Ethical Challenges After a Decade of Uterus Transplantation: Recommendations from the International Society of Uterus Transplantation Ethics Committee
Friday, November 14, 2025 - 2:30 PM
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The duration of this presentation is scheduled for 60 minutes.
Uterus transplantation has evolved as the only treatment for Absolute Uterus Infertilty. As this treatment has been applied globally, new ethical debates have evolved. This webinar discusses ethical challenges in uterus transplantation that have been summarized in a recent publication in Transplantation.
Program Director,
Div. of Transplant Surgery
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Stefan G. Tullius, MD, PhD is Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. He is the Joseph E. Murray, MD Distinguished Chair in Transplant Surgery, Program Director of Transplant Surgery, and Director of the Transplant Surgery Research Laboratory at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston. He has served as Vice President of The Transplantation Society (TTS), Sr. Treasurer for TTS, and a Vice President of the Int’l Society of Uterus Transplantation. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Transplantation and has served as Associate Editor of Transplant International and the American Journal of Transplantation. In addition, he leads a productive NIH-funded research laboratory and lists > 300 PubMed scientific manuscripts as well as several book chapters. He is an international speaker at scientific meetings and workshops; serves and has served on the Board of societies such as ESOT, TTS, UNOS, and the National Kidney Registry; and has chaired and co-chaired several committees including the Basic Science Committees for the TTS, AST, and ESOT.
Director, C-STAR Qualitative Core
Director of Policy and External Affairs, Transplant Institute
Associate Professor of Surgery and Population Health
NYU Langone Health
Dr. Macey Levan, Associate Professor of Surgery and Population Health at NYU Langone Health. She directs Policy and External Affairs for the Transplant Institute and its Qualitative Research Core. An NIH-funded researcher with over 140 publications, she focuses on improving transplant system performance and the patient and donor experience. An international leader and the Social Media Editor and podcast host for Transplantation journal, Dr. Levan is also earning a certificate in TV and Film Production to bring complex medical topics to broader audiences.
Ethics Committee Co-Chair, The Transplantation Society
Dr. Wall is a Clinical Professor at Texas A&M College of Medicine at Texas A&M Health Science Center, Dallas. She is board-certified in General Surgery by the American Board of Medicine with fellowship training in abdominal transplant surgery. She has clinical interests in liver, kidney and pancreas transplantation, as well as living liver and kidney donation.
Her medical training began at Saint Louis University School of Medicine where she also received a PhD in Health Care Ethics. She completed her general surgery residency at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and her abdominal transplant surgery fellowship at Stanford University.
Dr. Wall’s extensive research focuses on clinical ethical issues in surgical practice in general and transplantation, in particular, including how listing decisions are made and how organs are allocated. Dr. Wall has published a book entitled Ethics for International Medicine.
President, International Society of Uterus Transplantation
Assistant Professor of Surgery Surgical Director, Uterus Transplant Program
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Paige Porrett is a transplant surgeon at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) who is a national and international leader in uterus transplantation, having started the fourth program of its kind in the U.S. She holds a B.A. in French from Northwestern University, an M.D. from Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, and a Ph.D. in immunology from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Porrett is also the inaugural director of vascularized composite allotransplantation (VCA) at the UAB Comprehensive Transplant Institute and leads an NIH-funded laboratory researching the immunobiology of pregnancy and transplantation.
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