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John A. Bertolatus, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Medical School, Staff Nephrologist, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Hospital, Iowa City.
Luca Cicalese, MD, FACS, Associate Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics, University of Massachusetts School of Medicine; Section Chief, Liver and Intestinal Transplant, Department of Surgery, Division of Organ Transplantation, University of Massachusetts Memorial Healthcare, Worcester.
Catherine Chang Crone, MD, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Georgetown, DC; Director, Psychiatric Services, Inova Transplant Center, Inova Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, Virginia.
Francis L. Delmonico, MD, Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Visiting Surgeon and Director, Renal Transplantation, Department of Surgery and Transplantation, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
John J. Fung, MD, PhD, Professor of Surgery, Chairman, Department of General Surgery, Director, Transplant Center Cleveland Clinic Foundation Cleveland, OH.
Marshall I. Hertz, MD, Professor in the Division of Medicine, Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care at the University of Minnesota School of Medicine in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Shimon Kusne, MD, Professor, Department of Medicine, Mayo Medical School, Rochester, Minnesota; Director, Transplant, Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, Scottsdale, Arizona.
George V. Mazariegos, MD, FACS, Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Director, Pediatric Transplantation, Department of Pediatric Transplant Surgery, Children's Hospital of Surgery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Steven Nathan, MD, Medical Director, Lung Transplant Program, Inova Transplant Center, Inova Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, Virginia.
John D. Pirsch, MD, Medical Director, Lung Transplant Program, Inova Transplant Center, Inova Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, Virginia.
Parmjeet Randhawa, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Staff Pathologist, Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center - Presbyterian Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Cristiana Rastellini, MD, Associate Professor of Surgery, University of Massachusetts Medical School; Director, Cell Transplantation, Department of Surgery, Division of Organ Transplantation, University of Massachusetts Memorial Healthcare, Worcester.
Velma Scantlebury, MD, FACS, Professor of Surgery, University of South Alabama Medical Center, Chief, Division of Transplantation, Department of Transplant, USA Medical Center, Mobile, Alabama.
Ron Shapiro, MD, Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery, Transplant Division, University of Pittsburgh Medical School, Director, Kidney, Pancreas and Islet Transplantation, Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center - Presbyterian Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Roshan Shrestha, MD, Professor of Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Medical Director of Liver Transplantation, Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina Hospitals, Chapel Hill.
Robert J. Stratta, MD, Professor of Surgery, Department of General Surgery, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Director of Transplantation Services, Department of General Surgery, Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
David O. Taylor, MD, Director, Heart Failure Special Care Unit, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio.
Marc E. Uknis, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, Molecular Medicine and Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Staff Surgeon, Division of Organ Transplantation, Umass Memorial Healthcare, Worcester.
Flavio Vincenti, MD, Professor of Clinical Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine.
Steven Webber, MBChB, MRCP, FAAP, Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Medical Director, Pediatric Heart-Lung Transplantation, Department of Cardiology, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.