Liver and Intestinal Community of Practice (LICOP)
2023-2024 Executive Committee
Chair: Anjana Pillai (2024)
Co-Chair: Maria Cristina Segovia (2024)
Past Chair: Lisa VanWagner (2024)
Co-Chair: Maria Cristina Segovia (2024)
Past Chair: Lisa VanWagner (2024)
Board Liaison: David Foley (2024)
Marina Serper (2024)
Deepika Devuni (2025)
Tzu-Hao (Howard) Lee (2025)
Early Career: Adam Winters (2024)
Staff Liaison: Raffaella Troiano (rtroiano@myAST.org)
2023-2024 Activities
- Promote research to improve patient care and advance the field of liver and intestinal adult and pediatric transplantation through the LICOP Grant Program.
- Explore expanding capacity for pediatric living donor liver transplant in the U.S.
- Examine receiving adolescent patients: Transition of Care guide for adult hepatologists.
- Submit a minimum of 5 program proposals for ATC 2024 (with at least 2 co-sponsored with other COPs).
- Develop ideas for white papers that serves the interested of the LICOP and AST at large related to liver and/or intestinal transplantation.
- Use social media to educate, promote, and engage the transplant liver and intestinal workforce.
- Create opportunities to expand the engagement of LICOP members within the LICOP Subcommittees.
- Host a LICOP Controversies Conference in 2024.
- Continue to develop educational offerings and resources for the field of liver and intestinal transplantation.
- Conduct original research projects that address unanswered questions in liver and/or intestinal transplantation.
- Survey LICOP members for response to UNOS policies for public comment and develop a comprehensive response.
- Design intestine and multivesicular transplant-specific programmatic planning for ATC 2024.
- Work on operationalizing multicenter IRB.
- Produce manuscript for national surveys regarding immunosuppression practices and new project regarding quantification of morbidity on TPN.
- Development program material for ATC specific to ethical issue in liver transplant.
- Host an in-person LICOP Education Subcommittee meeting at AASLD Liver Meeting 2023.
- Foster professional development of trainee/junior faculty through the LICOP Mentoring Program.
- Offer 3 LICOP Travel Grants to ATC 2024.
- Highlight LICOP members for their contributions through AST nominations.