Bio:
Dr Subramania Iyer is Professor and Chairman of Plastic/Reconstructive surgery at Amrita School of medicine Kochi. He led the team that performed the first bilateral hand transplants in India in 2015. Subsequently his team led the country in forearm, supracondylar and shoulder level transplants. Having performed hand transplants in 18 patients, the team has become the largest in the world. These efforts ignited interest in several other centers in the country making it the most active country in VCA. His team also ventured into tracheal transplants and is licensed to perform other VCA. Dr Iyer received numerous accolades including BMJ best surgical team in South Asia, and NOTTO national award twice for promotion of transplants in the country. He served as a counsellor for Asia in the ISVCA 2020 to 2023 and successfully steered the ISVCA congress in New Delhi in 2019 as its President. Dr Iyer is involved in transplant related research and is part of an international project on validation of point of care device for immunosuppressant surveillance. He also serves as member of apex committee of the national transplant organization representing the bVCA community to maintain standards and make policy decisions.

Interest:
I have been part of all activities of the ISVCA ever since we started our transplant programme in 2015. During my term as counsellor of ISVCA , I could get more insight into the working and perceive the need for having a strong robust body to promote educational, regulatory and research work in the field of VCA internationally. My role as the President of the ISVCA congress in New Delhi helped me to get to know personally all working in this field from all over the world. This background, I feel will help me in strengthening the ISVCA in its mission and work, if elected as its President. I have been a member of the national apex committee for transplants of our country representing VCA community. Apart from helping to make regulations to maintain good practices another foremost task in this role for me is to facilitate a national registry in the lines of the international registry. Being one of the founding and member and mentor of the Indian Society of Reconstructive Transplants (ISRT) I could foresee this happening very soon. My aim will be to see if this national data can be integrated to the International registry, strengthening of which has been one objective of the ISVCA. My team has been very active in providing training to aspiring VCA centers and professionals through cadaver courses and mentorship programs. I will like this to be extended internationally to those countries having less of such programmes. We have ventured into clinical and basic sciences research in VCA with few international collaborations including one with a US Military grant (Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Yale being the other partners). During my term of office, I would like to facilitate more similar international collaborative research activities through ISVCA.

Bio:
Jérôme Duisit, MD, DDS, PhD is a plastic and reconstructive surgeon, clinician and researcher in VCA, Tissue Engineering, and experimental Anatomy. His strong relationship to the VCA field comes from very different roots: born in Lyon (France, 1979) where Prof. Dubernard performed the first hand transplantation, he there graduated in Dentistry (2003), specializing in facial prosthetic reconstruction. Thereafter, he obtained his MD (2010) from the Catholic University of Louvain and enter the Plastic Surgery program of Prof. Lengelé, inspired by his first face transplantation with Prof. Devauchelle, with who he trained too.

He received a PhD (UClouvain, 2018) introducing Vascularized Composite Enginering of the face and hand, after a fellowship at Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, trained by Prof. Orlando in kidney bioengineering, then applied to composite tissues back in Belgium. For his work, he received the Lucien Deloyers prize from the Royal Belgian Academy of Medicine, and the annual prize for laboratory research from the French Academy of Surgery.

He currently works at the Department of Plastic Surgery; Iris South Hospitals, Brussels, and is an invited researcher at Rennes University (Prof. Bertheuil). He also serves as Deputy Editor for Transplantation Direct, VCA section, and the TTS fundraising committee.

Interest:
I would really be passionate about helping to reinforce the european research and strengths for the ISVCA community. I think strong links between fundamentalists, clinicians and industrials need to be established and developed, in order to support and apply critical innovations, mandatory for the field's future growth and expansion: machine-perfusion, cryopreservation, tissue engineering, hybridization with mechatronics, AI support etc. Among the potential and arising new horizons for VCA, there is Space exploration: with the opportunity to already dig in the future strong need for complex tissues transplantation and replacement for this application. Brussels is central for this, as there is an ESA agency, and timing is excellent to build bridges with the ISVCA. This experience could also serve other ISVCA councilors to work with other international space agencies. The councilor position would also be an asset for my new role at member of the TTS fundraising committee, which is also part of the global approach to build project (research, education, care support etc..) and subsequently find funding for it.I have chosen since this year to diminish my clinical duties, in order to focus more on laboratory and academic roles. I would thus be able to dedicate a substantial part of my time to actively serve the ISVCA

Bio:
Dr Barret started his interest and work in VCA in 2003. In that period he was working as Consultant Plastic Surgeon in the UK.After moving to Barcelona, Spain, in 2005, he organized the multidisciplinary team of Face Transplantation at the Vall d’Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus / Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and performed the first Full face tRAnsplant in 2010. He has been actively involved in Face VCA since.

Interest:
Promotion of excellency standards in VCA across Europe and Beyond, Ethics in VCA, Funding in VCA.

Bio:
Dr. Ibrahim Natalwala, FRCS (Plast) MSc (Distinction) Dip Hand Surg (Br), is a consultant Hand and Plastic Surgeon at Leeds Teaching Hospitals, UK. His specialist interests are adult and paediatric hand surgery, major nerve injuries, limb reconstruction, and vascularized composite allotransplantation (VCA). He completed the prestigious Leeds Hand and Upper Limb (HAUL) Transplant Fellowship in 2022. He has been a key member of the Leeds HAUL transplant team and participated in four HAUL transplants. He has presented the UK HAUL transplant experience at ISVCA and been an invited speaker for the American Society of Transplantation (AST) webinar series “VCA for the Transplant Community - The Need and the Achieved (Debunking the Myths)”. His research interests include antibody mediated rejection and infections in HAUL transplant patients. He has published in the field of VCA and won the TTS-ISVCA Scientific Abstract Travel Award for his work on fungal infections in HAUL transplant patients.

Interest:
I am enthusiastic about serving as an ISVCA council member to help advance the society’s objectives. My aim is to foster global collaboration, promote research initiatives, and help support surgeons working in this evolving field. In particular, I am keen to promote VCA and HAUL transplant at the grassroots level and connect talented students/residents/young scientists with the ISVCA community. As a member of BSSH, ASSH, and BAPRAS, I can also lead collaboration with these societies. I am well organized, effective with time management, and keen to help with the running of the society and the biennial scientific congresses.

Bio:
Carl Cramer II, MD, MSc is a Pediatric and Adult Transplant Nephrologist at Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN since 2006. He has been the medical director of the Pediatric Kidney Transplant Program since 2012, Medical Director of the Bladder Transplant program since 2025 and assistant medical director of the Mayo Clinic Reconstructive Transplant (VCA) Program since 2019. Dr. Cramer is the Immediate Past Chair of the Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN, a position he held for 11 years and during which he doubled the size of the division. His administrative and leadership roles also include, Immediate Past Vice Chair of the Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine/Mayo Clinic Children’s Executive Committee, member of the Mayo Clinic Orders and Scheduling Committee, the Children’s Surgical and Procedural Subcommittee, and the Mayo Clinic Clinical Space Subcommittee.

Interest:
I would appreciate the opportunity to assist in shaping how the VCA medical field expands. My medical training and clinical practice in both Adult and Pediatric Nephrology allows me to care for all ages of patients. As the Medical Director of both the Pediatric Nephrology Transplant Program and Adult/Pediatric Bladder Tranplant program, I can help provide insight into the medical care of the VCA patient population. I have 8 years of leadership experience overseeing and integrating the care of patients across surgical and medical practices, first as the lead Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Director for implementation of a new EMR within the Children's Practice. This was followed by 6 years of as the Practice Chair for Mayo Clinic Children's.

Bio:
Dr. Tintinago is a Head & Neck Microsurgeon based in Colombia. He graduated from University of Antioquía’s General Surgery Program in 1996, and continued training under the Javeriana University’s Head & Neck Program; his outstanding work has made him awarded with an observership at the Royal Mardsen Hospital in London in 1999. His pioneering view of Head & Neck surgery in Latin America has led him to pursue interests regarding transplant tolerance, and animal models for thymus transplant. Dr. Luis Fernando is a member of ISVCA since 2014, and has actively participated in seven ISVCA Laryngeal Transplantation Issues Discussion Boards. In 2016, he was granted admission to the Head & Neck Microsurgery Program of the University of Barcelona. He also has been director of the Laryngeal and Tracheal Transplantation Program for 10 years, with 22 cases. Recently, he’s focused on vascular thymus transplantation, writing 3 publications, including one human case in 2024.

Currently, he is the Director of The Head & Neck Surgery Postgraduate Program at the Icesi University in Cali, Colombia, and member of the ENT Colombian Society.

Interest:
I am honored to express my interest and motivations regarding the ISVCA’s call for Council 2025 letter. To be part of ISVCA’s Council as a representor of the ISVCA in my country and in Latin America wound represent a new opportunity for young and consolidated researcher surgeons working in Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation projects in this region of the world. Working alongside ISVCA is essential for the direction of innovating and ground breaking projects that could not be possible without the aid of our society. Therefore, it is of my greatest interest to be part of the ISVCA’s Council, in order to promote VCA for a future world that hold efficient, science based treatment for all the patients we take care of.