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.

Baylor University Medical Center

Eva Gillis-Buck is a general surgery resident and PhD candidate at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Dr. Gillis-Buck has a BA from Harvard University with double major in Developmental Biology and Gender Studies, an MPhil in History and Philosophy of Science from Cambridge University, and MD from UCSF. While a medical student she spent two additional years as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Fellow in the laboratory of pediatric surgeon Dr. Tippi MacKenzie, investigating maternal-fetal immunology in a mouse model. After 3 years of general surgery residency, she now is a PhD candidate in the laboratory of transplant surgeon Dr. Jay Gardner, investigating immune tolerance in multiple contexts. Her research interests include maternal-fetal immunology, transplant immunology, and uterus transplantation.