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 Norah A. TerraultFigureDr A. Norah Terrault is a Professor of Medicine and Surgery and Director of the Viral Hepatitis Center at the University of California, San Francisco, USA. She received her MD from the University of Alberta, USA, and completed fellowships at the University of Toronto, Canada, before joining the faculty at the University of California, San Francisco. Her research focuses on the natural history and treatment of viral hepatitis and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, especially in patients with cirrhosis and liver transplant recipients. She has conducted multiple clinical trials related to preventing and treating chronic hepatitis C and B, and is site PI for the NIH-supported HBV Clinical Research Network (HBRN) and NASH Clinical Research Network. She has authored over 250 peer-reviewed manuscripts, editorials, invited reviews, and chapters and is an Associate Editor for Hepatology and past Deputy Editor for Liver Transplantation. She previously served on the AASLD governing board and is current Councilor on the IASL governing board. Andreas PascherFigureAndreas Pascher is Professor of Surgery and the Deputy Chair of the Department of Visceral and Transplant Surgery as well as the Director of Neuroendocrine Tumor Surgery and the Organ Transplant Programme (liver, pancreas, kidney, Intestine, multivisceral) at the Universitaetsmedizin Berlin-Charité, Germany. He founded the Intestine Rehabilitation and Transplant Programme in 2000. In 2006, he was awarded his PhD and four years later he achieved an MBA in Health Care Management. He has received board certifications in transplant surgery (UEMS – Fellow of the European Board of Surgeons), gastrointestinal surgery and general surgery (incl. endocrine surgery). He has been board member of the European Liver and Intestine Transplantation Association (ELITA) since 2011 and ELITA Secretary from 2012 to 2014. Currently he is a member of the scientific advisory board of the Intestinal Transplant Association (ITA). He has published more than 190 papers and has presented at numerous national and international meetings in the field. Jan P.M. LerutFigureProf. Jan P.M. Lerut, MD, PhD, trained in General Surgery at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL), Belgium, the H.Heine University of Dusseldorf, Germany, and at the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium. From the very start of his surgical career he was involved in organ transplantation. This interest resulted in a transplantation fellowship at the Universities Paris-Sud – Centre Hépatobiliaire, France, under the lead of Prof. H. Bismuth and Pittsburgh Medical Centre, USA, under the lead of Prof. Th. Starzl. He was Director of the Abdominal Transplant Program at the Inselspital University of Bern, Switzerland, from 1987 to 1991. Currently he is ordinary Professor of Surgery and Director of the Department of Abdominal and Transplantation Surgery as well as Director of the Starzl Abdominal Transplant Unit of the University Hospitals Saint Luc and of the UCL Transplant Centre in Brussels, Belgium. He has served as President of the Belgian Society of Transplantation (BST), as Chairman of the Eurotransplant (ET) Liver Allocation Committee (ELIAC) and as President of the European Society for Organ Transplantation (ESOT). He is member of different councils and learning societies related to surgery and transplantation. He is active in the Euroliver Foundation awareness campaigns for adolescents in relation to organ donation. Under his Presidency of the ELIAC, the MELD system was introduced within the ET Community. His presidency of ESOT was devoted to the broadening of the European transplant community and to the development of a master educational program in the field of transplantation. He is President of the International Liver Transplant Society (ILTS) and Royal Belgian Society of Surgery (RBSS). He has published over 300 peer-reviewed articles, authored 24 books chapters and 24 scientific films. He made more than 600 communications on national and international congresses, most of them devoted to liver transplantation. He recently co-edited the book Regenerative Medicine Applications in Organ Transplantation (Academic press).
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Dec 3, 2020
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