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FACULTY

	Update on the Management of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: Thinking Beyond Eat Less, Move More! Jaideep Behari, MD Director, UPMC FLOW Center (Fatty Liver, Obesity and Wellness) Associate Professor of Medicine University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Pittsburgh, PA
	Intestinal Transplantation and Rehab Surgery Geoff Bond, MD Surgical Director, Intestinal Care and Rehabilitation Center UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh; Assistant Professor of Transplantation Surgery, University of Pittsburgh; Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute Pittsburgh, PA
	Interventional Radiology John Crowley, MD Associate Professor University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Pittsburgh, PA
	Is My Patient a Candidate for a Liver Transplant? (Low Model for End-Stage Liver Disease and Complex Conditions) Swaytha Ganesh, MD Medical Director UPMC Living Donor Program Pittsburgh, PA
	Pediatric Kidney Transplant in Infants Armando Ganoza, MD Surgical Director, Pediatric Kidney Transplant Program UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh; Assistant Professor of Surgery University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Pittsburgh, PA
	Machine Preservation for Liver Transplantation: Is It the Future? Chris Hughes, MD, FACS Surgical Director, Liver Transplantation Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute at UPMC Pittsburgh, PA
	Immunosuppression Withdrawal After Transplantation; and Living-Donor Liver Transplants: Changing the Paradigm Abhinav Humar, MD Chief, Division of Transplantation, UPMC Clinical Director, Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute at UPMC Pittsburgh, PA
	Viral Hepatitis (B and C): What Are We Doing? What Should We Do? Naudia Jonassaint, MD, MHS Assistant Professor of Medicine University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; Vice Chair for Diversity and Inclusion Department of Medicine Pittsburgh, PA
	New Heart Transplant Allocation Guidelines—Things to Consider when Referring Patients Mary E. Keebler, MD Medical Director, Advanced Heart Failure Center UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute Pittsburgh, PA
	Cardiac Interventions in Children with Chronic Liver Disease Jackie Kreutzer, MD, FAAC, FSCAI Chief, Pediatric Cardiology Medical Director, Heart Institute Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh; Professor of Pediatrics University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Pittsburgh, PA
	Liver Transplantation for Alcoholic Hepatitis Shahid Malik, MD Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Pittsburgh, PA
	Transplant Surgery Program Overview and Challenges of Liver Transplantation for Metabolic Disease George V. Mazariegos, MD Chief, Pediatric Transplantation Professor of Surgery and Critical Care University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; Faculty, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine Pittsburgh, PA
	Liver Transplantation for Metastases and Non-Hepatocellular Carcinoma Tumors Michele Molinari, MD Associate Professor of Surgery University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Pittsburgh, PA
	Heart and Lung Transplantation Challenges in Pediatric Transplantation Victor Morell, MD Surgeon-in-chief Chief, Division of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery Co-Director, Heart Institute UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh; Co-Director, UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute Associate Professor of Surgery University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Pittsburgh, PA
	The History of Lung Transplant – A Single Center Experience Matthew Morrell, MD Medical Director, Lung Transplant Program UPMC; Associate Professor of Medicine University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Pittsburgh, PA
	Intestinal Rehabilitation Jeffrey Rudolph, MD Director, Intestinal Care and Rehabilitation Center, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Clinical Director, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, UPMC Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Pittsburgh, PA
	Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation and Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion Pablo G. Sanchez, MD, PhD Surgical Director, Lung Transplantation and ECMO UPMC; Assistant Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Pittsburgh, PA
	Ventricular Assist Device Christopher Michael Sciortino, MD, PhD Surgical Director, UPMC Advanced Heart Failure Center Assistant Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Pittsburgh, PA
	Transplantation for Cholestatic Diagnoses and Cancer and Translational Advances Rakesh Sindhi, MD Director, Pediatric Transplant Research Co-Director, Pediatric Transplantation Professor, Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA
	Expanding Donor Options and Graft Salvaging: Biliary and Vascular Reconstruction Kyle Soltys, MD Associate Professor of Surgery, Thomas E. Starzl Transplant Institute; University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Pittsburgh, PA
	Living-Donor Kidney Transplantation: Focused Updates on Long-term Living Donor Outcomes Puneet Sood, MD Medical Director, UPMC Living Donor Kidney Program Associate Professor of Medicine University of Pittsburg School of Medicine Pittsburgh, PA
	Current Management of Progressive Familial Intrahepatic Cholestasis Type 1 James Squires, MD, MS Program Director, Pediatric Transplant Hepatology Fellowship Program UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Assistant Professor of Pediatrics University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Pittsburgh, PA
	Pediatric Acute Liver Failure Robert Squires, MD Medical Director, Pediatric Liver Transplantation Professor of Pediatrics University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Pittsburgh, PA
	Bone Marrow Transplant Paul Szabolcs, MD Chief, Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapies UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh; Professor, Pediatrics and Immunology University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Pittsburgh, PA
	High Risk Donors: New Paradigms in Transplantation; and Liver Transplantation for HCC: Milan and Beyond Amit D. Tevar, MD, FACS Director, Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Program Starzl Transplant Institute at UPMC Pittsburgh, PA
	Is My Patient a Candidate? Advanced Age, Obesity, Frailty, Recurrent Disease, Malignancy, Noncompliance, Advanced Cardiovascular Comorbidity Christine Wu, MD Associate Professor of Medicine and Surgery Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, UPMC Pittsburgh, PA

Conference Planning Committee

Sarah Chart, RN
Senior Director
OptumHealth Education
Eden Prairie, MN

Swaytha Ganesh, MD
Medical Director, UPMC Living Donor Program
Pittsburgh, PA

Rebecca Gleason, RN, CCM
Activity Manager
OptumHealth Education
Eden Prairie, MN

Abhinav Humar, MD
Chief, Division of Transplantation, UPMC
Clinical Director, Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute at UPMC
Pittsburgh, PA

George V. Mazariegos, MD
Chief, Pediatric Transplantation
Professor of Surgery and Critical Care
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine;
Faculty, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Pittsburgh, PA

Patrick McKiernan, MD
Director, Pediatric Hepatology Program
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
Pittsburgh, PA

Erin McMahon, BSN, RN, CCTC
Director, Kidney and Living Donor Programs
UPMC
Pittsburgh, PA

Rakesh Sindhi, MD
Director, Pediatric Transplant Research
Co-Director, Pediatric Transplantation
Professor, Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA

Kyle Soltys, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery,
Thomas E. Starzl Transplant Institute;
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pittsburgh, PA

Amit D. Tevar, MD, FACS
Director, Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Program
Starzl Transplant Institute at UPMC
Pittsburgh, PA

Optum Health Education

Faculty and Planning Committee

Conference Planning Committee

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Faculty and Planning Committee

Conference Planning Committee