1. Associations between hospital processes and post-discharge outcomes.
2. Challenges experienced by families of children with complex medical conditions as they transition home from the hospital.
3. Strategies to improve the discharge transition for transplant families.

Michelle Nadler is a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner with the Liver and Kidney Transplant Programs at St. Louis Children’s Hospital.

Michelle started as a graduate nurse in 1987 at St. Louis Children’s Hospital where she has continued her career in nursing for the past 33 years. She completed her baccalaureate degree in 1991, the same year she joined the Liver and Kidney Transplant Team as a Transplant Nurse Coordinator. After completing her Masters Degree in Nursing at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, she transitioned into her current role as Pediatric Nurse Practitioner for the Liver and Kidney Transplant Programs in 2000.

Through her love of liver transplant as well as transplant education, Michelle has been actively involved in the pediatric liver community throughout her career. She has presented locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally on various topics in pediatric liver transplant. She has been a past board member of the Mid-America Division of the American Liver Foundation and has also been a member of the International Pediatric Transplant Association (IPTA). She remains an active member in the International Transplant Nurses Society (ITNS) since 1999, including her local ITNS Gateway Chapter, where she has previously served as Chapter President and Co-Chair for their ITNS Gateway Chapter Transplant Symposium. She was also part of the local planning committee hosting the international ITNS Symposium “Gateway to Excellence” in 2008. Michelle joined the SPLIT community in 1999 and has served in multiple roles including Chair of the Transplant Coordinators/Allied Health, Allied Health Representative on the Executive, Council and Education Committees.

1. Understand changes in disease severity of patients with biliary atresia awaiting liver transplantation
2. Describe current risk factors affecting post-transplant patient and graft survival in biliary atresia and how these have evolved over time
3. Understand the factors that influence risk stratification for deceased technical variant grafts in patients with biliary atresia 

Manuel Rodriguez-Davalos, Medical Director, Living Donor Liver Transplantation Program, Intermountain Medical Center and Surgical Director, Pediatric Liver Transplantation, Primary Children's Hospital, Intermountain Healthcare. Dr. Rodriguez-Davalos has previously held positions in transplant at Yale University, Mount Sinai Medical Center and New York Medical College.

He is committed to innovation and collaboration to improve organ donation, transplantation and allocation systems to benefit those in need, especially children. He has particular interest in living donor transplants, organ allocation, and portal hypertension.

His current research involves living donor liver transplantation the use of partial grafts and extended criteria for donation in liver transplantation, and preservation techniques for decreasing ischemia-reperfusion injury.

He has served on numerous liver transplantation advisory boards and was a member at large of the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS ) Liver Committee and as well as the pediatric transplantation committee. He is part of the publications committee with IPTA, Education committee of TTS, Associate editor of our journal “Transplantation”, Task force for liver allocation with SPLiT and oversees the International Liver Transplant Society Pediatric Liver Transplant Registry.

He received his medical degree from the Anahuac University. He did a year of research in portal hypertension and hepatobiliary surgery at the National Institutes of Health System in Mexico. He was a surgical intern at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, and completed his surgical training at the Mayo Clinic Hospital in Scottsdale, AZ. He was a clinical fellow in multi-organ transplant surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Center.