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Michael Bos, The Netherlands - Chair
Mike Bos (1949) studied Sociology and Social Anthropology at Leyden University, the Netherlands (MSoc 1974). He specialized in medical sociology and anthropology, also taking a course in tropical hygiene at the Department of tropical diseases & medicine. During his studies he did fieldwork with the Dutch Royal Tropical Institute in Kenia (1972-73), doing an evaluation of mother & child health programs, and studying traditional Kikamba healing practices and practitioners. After completing his military service, he worked with the Dutch Ministry of Education and Science, in the planning department for university hospitals, medical research and medical education (1978-1982). Next he became Head of the Department of planning supranational care facilities with the Ministry of Health, responsible, among others, for planning and quality assurance of the transplant program in the Netherlands (1982-1989). Since 1989, Mike Bos is senior scientific advisor with the Health Council of the Netherlands, the principal advisory body to the government and parliament on issues related to medicine, public health and health care in the Netherlands. His fields of interest cover a broad range of topics in curative care, among others organ donation and transplantation. He is currently chair of the Ethics Committee of the Eurotransplant International Foundation, which facilitates organ exchange across 7 European countries covering 120 million inhabitants (1995-present). He is also chair of the Ethics Committee of the Transplantation Society (TTS), (2010-present), and chair of the Medical Ethics Committee of the Dutch Transplant Society (2000-present). He was Board Member of the Dutch Transplant Foundation, the authority which regulates organ/tissue donation and organ allocation in the Netherlands (until 2011), and is Founding Member of ELPAT (European Platform on Ethical, Legal and Psychosocial Aspects of Transplantation). Mike Bos has a special interest in medical sociology, bioethics and health law.
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Dominique Martin, Australia - Vice Chair
Dominique is a lecturer and researcher in health ethics at the Centre for Health and Society at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her primary areas of research include the pursuit of national self-sufficiency in medical products of human origin, the ethical promotion of organ donation, and markets in human biological materials. She also works on topics such as medical futility, international medical travel and issues of professional ethics such as the use of unproven stem cell therapies. She has previously worked in collaboration with the World Health Organization on ethical issues in transplantation, and is an active member of the Declaration of Istanbul Custodian group. Dominique worked part time in emergency medicine for a number of years while writing het PhD thesis on the ethical procurement of human biological materials, but has now retired from clinical practice to pursue an academic career.
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Farhat Moazam, Pakistan - Vice Chair
Dr. Moazam is Professor and Founding Chairperson of the Centre of Biomedical Ethics and Culture (CBEC) of the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation in Karachi, Pakistan. She is also Fellow, Institute of Practical Ethics, and Visiting Professor, Centre for Humanism in Medicine, University of Virginia (UVA), USA. She was appointed International Fellow (2007) of The Hastings Center, Garrison, New York, and elected to the Board of Directors (2009), International Association of Bioethics. In the past, she was Professor and Founding Chairperson of the Department of Surgery, and Associate Dean of Postgraduate Medical Education, in the Aga Khan University (AKU), Karachi.
Dr. Moazam has an MA in Bioethics (1999), and a doctorate from the Department of Religious Studies (2004) of UVA with a focus on Islam and cross-cultural ethics. Her doctoral dissertation was published by Indiana University Press, USA (2006) as Bioethics and Organ Transplantation in a Muslim Society: A Study in Culture, Ethnography, and Religion. She has authored articles related to pediatric surgery, medical education, and bioethics in journals including The Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, The Journal of Clinical Ethics, The Hastings Center Report, Journal of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies, and Bioethics.
Dr. Moazam has been an invited speaker in various national and international universities, and forums including the International Association of Bioethics, Pakistan Medical Association, Asian Bioethics Association, Islamic Organization of Medical Sciences, the Welcome Trust School of Bioethics in Mumbai, and the European Society for Organ Transplantation.
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Sandeep Guleria, India
Senior Consultant Surgeon, in General Surgery, GI Surgery and Transplantation.
Prof. Sandeep Guleria currently works at the Indraprastha Apollo Hospital (New Delhi, India) as Senior Consultant Surgeon in General Surgery, GI Surgery and transplantation. Prof. Guleria was recently Professor of Surgery at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences. Prof. Guleria has numerous firsts to his credit . He led the team that did the first cadaveric renal transplant in India from a brain dead donor. He also led the team that did the first two successful kidney pancreas transplants in India.
He was actively involved in the modifications of the Human Organ Transplant Act through the Rajiv Gandhi foundation.
Dr Guleria has trained in the UK and was appointed as a consultant surgeon in surgery and transplantation at Europe’s Largest teaching hospital the St. James’s University hospital, Leeds.
He was till recently the Secretary of the Indian Society of Organ transplantation and is its current vice president.
He is also a member of the ethics committee of the Transplantation Society.
Dr Guleria has been felicitated with numerous awards, has more than 106 indexed publications and has given seven orations.
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Tanabe Kazunari, Japan
Professor and Chairman of the Department of Urology, Kidney Center of the Tokyo Women's Medical University.
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Anantharaman Vathsala, Singapore
Prof A Vathsala is a Senior Consultant and Head, Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine at the National University of Singapore and Co-Director of the National University Centre for Organ Transplantation at the National University Health System.
She graduated with a Bachelors of Science in the Premedical Curriculum from Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, studied Medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, USA and completed her training in Internal Medicine in Singapore. She obtained her Membership in the Royal College of Physicians (United Kingdom) followed by additional training in Renal Medicine at the Singapore General Hospital and Kidney Transplantation at the University of Houston, Texas and the Cornell University School of Medicine, USA. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and a Fellow, Academy of Medicine (Singapore).
She was the founding President of the Society of Transplantation (Singapore) and Past President of the Asian Society of Transplantation. She is also a member of many academic societies including the Singapore Society of Nephrology, American Society of Transplantation, The international Transplantation Society and the International Society of Nephrology. She holds executive positions in the international Transplantation Society as a Member of its Ethics Committee and the Executive Council of the Declaration of Istanbul Custodian Group. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of the National Kidney Foundation, Singapore. She has research interests in many areas in the field of transplantation including immunosuppression, pharmacokinetics and pharmacogenomics and has participated in many clinical trials in kidney transplantation. She has published widely in local and international journals in the areas of nephrology and transplantation. In addition to her interest in kidney transplantation, she has a special interest in preventive nephrology, lupus nephritis and glomerulonephritis. She enjoys teaching professionalism, ethics, nephrology and transplantation to medical students, post graduates and other health care professionals. She has received many awards in research and teaching and was the recipient of the National Outstanding Clinician Award in 2010 for her contributions to transplantation.
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Vasant Sumethkul, Thailand
- Professor of Medicine (from 2002), Mahidol University, Faculty of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Ramathibodi Hospital (Thailand)
- President, (from 2009), Thai Transplantation Society
- Chairperson of CME committees (from 2012), The Royal College of Physicians of Thailand
- Chief, Division of Nephrology (from 1995), Mahidol University, Ramathibodi Hospital
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Antonia Cronin, UK
Dr Antonia Cronin qualified in medicine from St. Bartholomew’s and the Royal London School of Medicine in 1996. She completed her general medical training and obtained the MRCP (UK) in 1999. Her specialist training in nephrology and transplantation included posts at the Hammersmith Hospital, Charing Cross Hospital, and Guy's and St Thomas'.
She completed a MA in Medical Law and Ethics at the Centre for Medical Law and Ethics, School of Law, King’s College, London in 2006, and received a distinction award. From 2006-2009 she was a Wellcome Trust Research Training Fellow with Professor Robert Lechler and Professor John Harris. She was awarded a PhD in Medical Law and Ethics in 2009 from the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation, at the School of Law, University of Manchester.
In 2008 she was an invited member of the UK Secretary of States Organ Donation Taskforce ‘ethics working group’. From 2008-2011 she was chairperson of the Ethics Committee and Council member of the British Transplantation Society.
She was appointed as an NIHR Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) Clinical Research Consultant and Consultant Nephrologist at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ in April 2010. She is a member of the BRC Population Sciences Cluster Board. She is a Trustee of the Governing Body of the Institute of Medical Ethics, and appointed member of the UK Donation Ethics Committee (UKDEC).
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Carmen Gracida, Mexico
Head of Transplant Surgery in Hospital de Especialidades, Transplant Unit Centro Médico Nacional Siglo XXI since 1992 to present date.
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Jose Medina Pestana, Brazil
Head of Renal Transplant Division - Hospital do Rim
Full Professor Nephrology Division - Federal University of São Paulo - UNIFESP São Paulo - Brasil
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Eduardo Tanus, Argentina
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Mohamed Salah Ben Ammar, Tunisia
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Alireza Bagheri, Iran
Alireza Bagheri MD., PhD, is assistant professor of medicine and medical ethics, Tehran University of Medical Sciences.
He was a senior fellow in Toronto East General Hospital in 2011 and a clinical ethics fellow in the Joint Center for Bioethics, University of Toronto, Canada 2007-08, Erasmus Mundus Visiting Professor at the University of Leuven, Belgium in 2007. He was Edmund Pellegrino Fellow in bioethics, a visiting scholar in the Center for Clinical Bioethics in Georgetown University, USA 2007-09. Dr. Bagheri is the coordinator of Asian Task Force on Organ Trafficking which has developed a set of recommendations on how to tackle organ trafficking in Asia. He is also a member of the Istanbul Declaration Custodian Group, which issued the Istanbul Declaration on Organ Trafficking and Tourism. As a Temporary Adviser to WHO, he has participated in the efforts to regulate requirements for Xenotransplantation Clinical Trials.
He is a member of the board of International Bioethics Association (IAB) and serves as the Vice-chairman of the UNESCO International Bioethics Committee (IBC), in which he leads a working group on Organ, Cells and Tissue Transplantation and Trafficking.
Dr. Bagheri serves as a member of the Ethics committees of The Transplantation Society (TTS) and of MESOT.
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Antoine Barbari, Lebanon
Current position:
Director of Renal transplant Unit at Rafic Hariri University Hospital
Declaration of Istanbul, Board Council Member
The Transplantation Society Ethics Committee, Member
Author and Co-author of more than 50 articles in the field of Nephrology and
Main focus of interest in Transplantation:
Clinical Immunosuppression Monitoring
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Jacob Lavee, Israel
Prof. Jacob Lavee is the Director of the Heart Transplantation Unit and Deputy Director of the Department of Cardiac Surgery at the Leviev Heart Center of the Sheba Medical Center which is affiliated to the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Medicine in Israel. He received his M.D. cum laude degree from the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Medicine in Israel and was subsequently trained in cardiothoracic surgery at the Sheba Medical Center. He later trained in heart and lung transplantation at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and in 1991 founded the Heart Transplantation Unit at the Sheba Medical Center which since has become Israel’s largest unit of its kind. Since 1997 he has developed an active ventricular assist device program and in 2001 implanted the first-in-man HeartMate II Left ventricular assist device.
He is the past Chairman of the Israel Society of Cardiothoracic Surgery and past President of the Israel Transplantation Society. He currently serves as Chairman of the Heart and Lung Transplantation committee of Israel’s National Transplant Center, Israel’s representative in the Declaration of Istanbul Custodian Group and member of the advisory board of the Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH) NGO.
Prof. Lavee spearheaded the preparations of the new Israeli Organ Transplant Law with its unique clauses which have almost abolished transplant tourism from Israel while significantly increasing local deceased and living donations.
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David Cronin, USA
Dr. Cronin is a practicing solid organ abdominal transplant surgeon for both pediatric and adult patients. He has been actively involved in the practice of live-donor liver transplantation for adult and pediatric recipients, beginning with his residency and fellowship at the University of Chicago. In addition, Dr. Cronin has been continuously involved in addressing ethical issues as they relate to the practice of transplantation. He has been an active member and advisor to numerous professional societies (AASLD, ASTS, ACS, TTS and various hospital and medical school ethics committees) in the area of medical ethics. Specific areas of interest include: protection of live donors, equitable access and allocation, organ donation incentives and informed consent.
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Michael Shapiro, USA
- Vice-chairman, Department of Surgery, Hackensack University Medical Centre
- Professor of Surgery, St. George’s University School of Medicine
- Attending Surgeon, Hackensack University Medical Center
- Section Chief, Organ Transplantation, HUMC
- Interim Vice Chairman, Department of Surgery, HUMC
- Interim Chairman, Department of Surgery, HUMC
- Vice Chairman, Department of Surgery, HUMC
- Director, Surgical Education, HUMC
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Lee Ann Tibbles, Canada
From 1995 to 1999, Dr. Tibbles held a Kidney Foundation of Canada Research Fellowship, working with Dr. James Woodgett at the Ontario Cancer Institute at the University of Toronto on Stress–Responsive Protein Kinases. In 1999, she took up her current position as a Clinician Scientist in the Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Calgary. Dr. Tibbles holds a cross-appointment to the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, and is a member of the Snyder Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation within the Faculty of Medicine.
As a Clinician Scientist with interests in renal transplantation and signal transduction, Dr. Tibbles concentrates on investigating in the laboratory those problems which impact her transplant patients. She has examined the role of hypoxia and ischemia/reperfusion at the molecular level to define therapies that could be used to prevent graft injury. Recently she has investigated the pathogenesis of BK virus infection, demonstrating various signaling pathways utilized by the virus to induce inflammation. She has designed a treatment strategy which inhibits these host signaling pathways, and applied this therapy to patients with BK viremia, with encouraging results. She is currently Principal Investigator on a Canadian Institutes of Health Research funded Multicentre Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial called the BK:KIDNI Trial (BK Virus: Kinase Inhibition to Decrease Nephropathy Intervention Trial) .
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Katrina A. Bramstedt, Australia
Katrina Bramstedt, PhD is a transplant ethicist and former Chair of the NATCO Ethics Committee. Originally from USA and now residing in Queensland, Australia, she continues to work on matters pertaining to organizational ethics, as well as performing patient consults (e.g., living donor candidacy assessments, deceased donation consults). She obtained her PhD from Monash University Faculty of Medicine and her Fellowship from UCLA School of Medicine. She is the author of over 80 peer-reviewed journal articles, as well as one of the few books on non-directed donation, The Organ Donor Experience: Good Samaritans and the Meaning of Altruism (Rowman & Littlefield, 2011). Her educational website is www.TransplantEthics.com
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