Nephrologist, Westmead Hospital Clinician Researcher
Westmead Institute for Medical Research

Jen is a transplant nephrologist working at Westmead Hospital and has an active research portfolio in cell therapies and transplant genomics at the Westmead Institute for Medical Research.

Diretor, Center for Transplant Science
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA

Peter Reese, MD, PhD directs Vanderbilt’s Center for Transplant Science. He is a transplant nephrologist. His research aims to improve access to transplant and the care of solid organ transplant recipients with tools from epidemiology, ethics and policy. His scientific work includes co-leading pioneering trials that demonstrated the safety and efficacy of transplanting organs from donors with hepatitis C virus infection into uninfected recipients. For his contributions to transplant science and ethics, he received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers at the White House and was elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation. Dr. Reese is past Chair of the Ethics Committee for the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), which oversees US organ allocation and transplant regulation. His mission encompasses energetic support of talented and motivated young researchers at all stages of training.

Head: Transplantation Services
University of Cape Town; Groote Schuur Hospital
TTS Immediate Past President

Prof Elmi Muller is the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Stellenbosch University. She is an international leader in the healthcare sector, Immediate Past President of The Transplantation Society (TTS) and International Chapter leader for the American College of Surgeons (ACS), and President for the African Society of Organ Transplantation. She holds clinical as well as business qualifications in South Africa and England, as well as a fellowship in the USA. She had been the chair of the Declaration of Istanbul Custodian group, the South African Transplant Society and is currently participating in one of the Expert groups of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the World Health Organization Transplantation Taskforce and the Pontifical Academy of Science taskforce on Transplantation. Her board experience include experience with the American College of Surgeons South African Chapter (vice chair) as well as the South African Medical Association (SAMA) 2013-14 and the Organ Donor Foundation of South Africa (ODF) between 2007 and 2017. She had been on the steering committee for several local and overseas meetings and conferences and chaired the Educational online program for TTS in 2015. She holds an A1 rating for research with the National Research Foundation of South Africa.

Abdominal Transplant Surgeon;
Assistant Professor of Surgery and Population Health Sciences
Duke University, Durham

Lisa McElroy, MD, MS is an Assistant Professor of Surgery and Population Health Sciences and Director of Health Services Research for the Department of Surgery at Duke University. In 2022 she was selected as the Inaugural Onyekwere E. Akwari Endowed Assistant Professor in Surgery.

Dr. McElroy completed her general surgery residency at the Medical College of Wisconsin and a fellowship in abdominal transplant surgery at the University of Michigan. She received her research training via a T32 postdoctoral research fellowship at Northwestern University, where she also earned a Master of Science in Health Services and Outcomes Research through the Institute for Public Health and Medicine.

Dr. McElroy’s current research projects, which aim to improve access to transplantation by optimizing processes of care, have been funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the American Surgical Association Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health. She has authored more than 100 peer reviewed scientific papers and serves as an Associate Editor of the American Journal of Transplantation, vice chair of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons grants committee and Vice Chair of the OPTN Data Advisory Committee.