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Editorial Board Members

Ezzatollah Abdi, Department of Transplantation Surgery, Iran, Islamic Republic of

Kareem Abuelmagd, Director, Intestinal Rehabilitation and Transplantation Center Thomas E. Starzel Transplantation Center University of Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Ismail H. Al-Abdullah, Director pf Clinical Islet Transplant Laboratory Southern California Islet Cell Resource Center Department of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism City of Hope National Medical Center Duarte, California, United States

Malcolm Alison, Centre for Diabetes and Metabolic Medicine, Institute of Cell and Molecular Science Brts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom

Nabil Mohsin Al-Lawati, Department of Transplantation Surgery, Oman

Mustafa Al-Musawi, Professor of Surgery Organ Transplantation Center, Kuwait President, Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation (MESOT) Vice-President, Kuwait Transplant Society, Kuwait

Ali Alobaidli, Consult Nephrologist & Transplant Physician Sheikh Khalifa Medical City Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Ignacio Anegon, Director of INSERM, French National Biomedical Research Institute Department Nantes, France

Kamran Bagheri Lankarani, Professor of Internal Medicine Shiraz University of Medical Sciences Health Policy Research Center, Iran, Islamic Republic of

Hossein Baharvand, Department of Stem Cells and Developmental Biology Professor of Stem Cells and Developmental Biology Department of Developmental Biology, University of Science and Culture, ACECR, Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic of

Antoine Barbari, Director of Renal Transplant Unit Rafik Hariri University Hospital Beirut, Lebanon

Bahar Bastani, Nephrology, Internal Medicine SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital-St. Louis, MO SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital -St. Louis, MO, United States

Taieb Ben Abdallah, Department of Transplantation Surgery, Tunisia

Anthony Ben Cosimi, Chief Emeritus, Transplantation Hepatobiliary surgery Melanoma Gastrointestinal surgery Kidney (renal) transplant Boston: Massachusetts General Hospital, United States

Dieter Broering, Professor of Surgery, Director of the Organ Transplant Center Chairman of Department of Surgery at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Germany

Behrooz Broumand, Department of Nephrology, Pars Hospital, Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic of

Jeremy Chapman, Clinical Professor, Medicine, Westmead Clinical School The Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Australia

Hamid Reza Davari, General Thoracic Surgeon Tehran University of Medical Sciences Department of Surgery, Iran, Islamic Republic of

Francis Delmonico, Professor of Surgery, Part-time Massachusetts General Hospital Department Surgery Massachusetts General Hospital, United States

James Eason, A general surgeon in Memphis, Tennessee Methodist Hospitals of Memphis St. Thomas West Hospital, United States

Vincent Emery, University of Surrey; and Department of Microbial and Cellular Sciences, United Kingdom

Iraj Fazel, Iranian Academy of Medical Sciences; and Department of Surgery, Beheshty University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic of

John Fung, Professor of Surgery Chief, Section of Transplantation Co-Director, Transplant Institute, United States

Osama Gaber, J.C. Walter Jr. Presidential Distinguished Chair & Director, J.C. Walter Jr. Transplant Center Professor of Surgery, Institute for Academic Medicine Full Member, Research Institute Program Director, Transplant Surgery Residency, Department of Surgery Houston Methodist Weill Cornell Medical College, United States

Mohammad Reza Ganji, Professor of Internal Medicine Division of Nephrology & Transplantation Shariati Hospital Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran, Islamic Republic of

Nasrollah Ghahramani, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, United States

Ahad Ghods, Professor of Medicine, Division of Nephrology Iran University of Medical Sciences Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic of

Mehmet Haberal, Professor of Surgery and Transplantation Founder and President, Baskent University President, Turkish Transplantation Society Ankara, Turkey. And, Transplant Pioneer, Entrepreneur, President-elect, The Transplantation Society, Turkey

Koroush Haghighi, M.B.B.S (Adl) F.R.A.C.S (Syd) F.A.C.S a specialist in Hepato-pancreato-biliary Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeon Transplant Surgeon at the Prince of Wales and St Vincent Public and Private Hospitals, Australia

Nadey Hakim, Professor of Surgery Imperial College London Transplant Unit, St. Mary’s Hospital London, United Kingdom

Nigel Heaton, Professor of Surgery and transplantation Surgical Director, Institute of Liver Studies King College Hospital, Denmark Hill London, United Kingdom

Kazem Hosseini Asl, Department of Transplantation Surgery, Iran, Islamic Republic of

Mohammad Hadi Imanieh, Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Pediatrics, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Iran, Islamic Republic of

Hamdi Karakayali, General Surgery,Organ Transplantation Center, Turkey

Jan Lerut, Professor Emeritus of Surgery, Director of the Starzl Abdominal Transplant Unit, University Hospitals Saint Luc and UCL Transplant Centre in Brussels; Past President, European Society of Organ Transplantation and International Society of Liver Transplantation. University Hospitals Saint Luc Catholic of the University of Louvain in Brussels of Abdominal and Transplantation Surgery, Belgium

Mahboob Lessanpezeshki, Division of Nephrology, Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic of

Mohammad Malekzadeh, Pediatrics, Nephrology Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital, United States

Marwan Masri, Professor of Nephrology President Middle East Society of Organ Transplantation Rizk Hospital Beirut, Lebanon

Darius Mirza, Professor of Urology and kidney transplantation Labbafinejad Medical Center Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, United Kingdom

Ferdinand Muehlbacher, Medical University of Vienna Klinische Abteilung für Transplantation, Austria

Nader Najafian, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Transplant Research Center Harvard Medical School A nephrologist in Boston, Massachusetts Brigham and Women's Hospital, United States

Nosratollah Nezakatgoo, Associate Professor of Surgery Department of Surgery, Transplant Division University of Tennessee Medical College Memphis, TN, United States

Behrooz Nikbin, Department of Immunology, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Molecular Immunology Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran, Islamic Republic of

Ali Nobakht, Professor of Internal Medicine, Nephrology Permanent Member of Iranian Academy of Medical Sciences Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Iran, Islamic Republic of

Jacques Pirenne, Department of Abdominal Transplant Surgery University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Catholic University Leuven, Belgium

Ghloamreza Pourmand, Iran, Islamic Republic of

Khosrow Rahbar, Professor of Nephrology Division of Nephrology, Taleghani Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University, MC, Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic of

Asghar Rastegar, Internal Medicine, Nephrology, Professor of Medicine, Director, Office of Global Health; Chief, Fitkin Firm, YNHH Yale/Stanford J&J Global Health Scholars Program, United States

Bassam Saeed, MD. FRCP. DIS. DIU. President of the Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation (MESOT), Syrian Arab Republic

Catherine Sarraf, Department of Biomedical Sciences School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Westminster London, United Kingdom

Mohamed H. Sayegh, Nephrologist in Boston, Massachusetts Associate Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School Research Director, Laboratory of Immunogenetics and Transplantation. Brigham and Women's Hospital Research Director, Nephrology Division Children's Hospital of Boston, United States

Faissal Shaheen, Senior consultant physician and nephrologist (DSFH), President elect ISODP, Co-chairman task force WHO organ and tissue donation and transplantation Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation, Saudi Arabia

Hosein Shokouh-Amiri, Professor of Surgery Co-Director of Willis Knighton /LSUHSC Regional Transplant Program Director Of transplant program Department of Surgery Kings Highway Shreveport, United States

Nasser Simforoush, Professor of Urology and kidney transplantation Labbafinejad Medical Center Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic of

Gazi Zibari, A general surgeon in Shreveport Christus Coushatta Health Care Center Christus Health Shreveport-Bossier Treasurer at Americas Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (AHPBA) Shreveport, Louisiana, United States