Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology, Ethics and Health Policy
University of Pennsylvania

Peter Reese, MD, PhD is Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology, Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on: a) developing effective strategies to increase access to solid organ transplantation, b) improving the process of selecting and caring for living kidney donors, c) determining outcomes of health policies on vulnerable populations with renal disease, including the elderly, d) testing strategies to improve important health behaviors such as medication adherence, and e) transplant ethics. He is a past chair of the Ethics Committee for the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), which oversees organ allocation and transplant regulation in the US. He has been honored by selection as a Greenwall Scholar and as a recipient of a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. His current work includes leading pioneering trials to transplant organs from deceased donors with hepatitis C virus and, more recently, working to safely integrate the use of genetically-modified porcine organs into the care of patients with end-stage organ disease. He is very invested in training the next generation of investigators focused on advancing care for patients with advanced kidney disease or in need of transplantation.

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Assistant Professor of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology
Associate Director, Vanderbilt Center for Transplant Science
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, TN, USA

Dr. Ciara Shaver, MD, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and is the Associate Director of the Vanderbilt Center for Transplant Science. Her basic, translational, and clinical research focuses on mechanisms of acute lung injury in organ donors, lung transplant recipients, and critically ill patients. More recently, she has focused on rehabilitating damaged donor organs for transplant using human:porcine cross-circulation.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, TN, USA

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