Editorial introductions.

Abstract

Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation was launched in 1996. It is part of a successful series of review journals whose unique format is designed to provide a systematic and critical assessment of the literature as presented in the many primary journals. The field of organ transplantation is divided into 18 sections that are reviewed once a year. Each section is assigned a Section Editor, a leading authority in the area, who identifies the most important topics at that time. Here we are pleased to introduce the Section Editors for this issue. SECTION EDITORS Joseph F. MaglioccaJoseph F. MaglioccaJoseph F. Magliocca, MD, is Assistant Professor in the Division of Transplantation in the Department of Surgery at Emory University School of Medicine. Dr Magliocca, a board certified surgeon specializing in liver transplantation, also serves as Surgical Director of the Liver Transplant Program at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. Prior to his work at Emory, Dr Magliocca was the surgical director of adult and pediatric liver transplantation as well as pancreas transplantation at the University of Florida College of Medicine. He also directed the medical student and resident education components of University of Florida's transplant and hepatobiliary surgery program. Dr Magliocca belongs to numerous professional organizations including American College of Surgeons, American Society of Transplant Surgeons, The Transplantation Society, American Society of Transplantation, International Pediatric Transplant Association, International Pancreas and Islet Transplant Association, and Association for Academic Surgery. He is a member of the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program at Winship. Dr Magliocca currently serves as an associate editor of the American Journal of Transplantation, and is actively engaged in clinical and translational research investigating the preservation and resuscitation of liver grafts. Dr Magliocca's research interests include organ preservation, ischemia/reperfusion injury and management of immunosuppression in patients following transplantation. Laurens J. CeulemansLaurens J. CeulemansLaurens J. Ceulemans (1985) graduated as medical doctor in 2010 at KU Leuven, Belgium (MD). In 2017 he obtained his PhD with his contributions to the clinical and basic science field of intestinal transplantation and ischemia reperfusion injury. After his specialization in general surgery (2018), he completed a clinical and research fellowship in thoracic surgery and transplantation at the University Hospitals and ETH Zürich in Switzerland. This fellowship was supported by several grants including the prestigious Horlait-Dapsens and ESOT schorlarships. Since 2019 he has worked as a thoracic and transplant surgeon at the department of Thoracic Surgery and the Leuven Intestinal Failure and Transplant (LIFT) center at the University Hospitals Leuven. He is appointed as professor in Surgery at KU Leuven and his basic research focuses on both the intestine and the lung. He is the author of 100 peer-reviewed papers and actively enrolled in several transplant societies. He is a council member for IRTA since 2018 and chair of the Membership and Education committee since 2021.