Speakers
Yolanda T. Becker, MD is the Professor of Surgery in the Division of Transplant at the University of Chicago Medical Center. Her focus is in kidney and pancreas transplantation, living-donor procedures, and dialysis access surgery. Read more...
Roy D. Bloom, MD is the Medical Director of the Kidney/Pancreas Transplant Program at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Bloom received his undergraduate degree and medical degree at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. He completed his residency in medicine and general surgery at Johannesburg Hospital in 1984. Read more...
Vikas R. Dharnidharka, MD is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Chief of the Division of Pediatric Nephrology at the University of Florida College of Medicine and Shands Children’s Hospital. He is a member of the American Society of Nephrology’s Transplant Advisory Group. He has served the American Society of Transplantation in multiple capacities. Read more...
John S. Gill, MD is a clinician scientist working in the field of kidney transplantation. His interests include epidemiology, clinical outcomes, and clinical trials. He holds a number of peer reviewed research grants for observational and interventional studies in transplant recipients. Read more...
Donald E. Hricik, MD is Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Nephrology at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio, where he also serves as Medical Director of the Transplantation Service at the University Hospitals of Cleveland. Read more...
Atul Humar, MD is Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, and Director of Transplant Infectious Diseases at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Dr. Humar received his medical degree from the University of Ottawa, Ontario. Read more...
Bruce Kaplan, MD is Kathy and Harry Jentsch Professor of Medicine and Professor of Surgery and Pharmacology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson, Arizona. He is also the Medical Director of the Abdominal Transplant Program and the Section Chief of Nephrology. Read more...
Didier A. Mandelbrot, MD has two main areas of research, living kidney donation and transplant immunosuppression. He has published several studies documenting current practices in the US regarding living donor evaluation and follow-up. In addition, he is co-PI on an RO1 grant to study outcomes after kidney donation. Read more...
Douglas J. Norman, MD is a Professor of Medicine and Director of both the Immunogenetics Laboratory and Transplant Medicine at OHSU. He has training in Medicine, Clinical Transplantation, Transplant Immunology and Nephrology. Dr. Norman serves as the Medical Director of the OHSU Kidney Transplant Program. He was a founder of the OHSU Heart Transplant Program in 1985. Read more...
Milagros D. Samaniego, MD received her MD from the University of Panama. She was an intern and resident in internal medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX where she served as Chief Resident from 1993-1994. Read more..

