The objective of the TTS ambassador appointment is to give members who work in areas of particular need an official appointment that will assist them in reaching out to policy makers and local key opinion leaders in order to enact positive change to promote ethical and just practice of clinical transplantation. As this is an official appointment of TTS, all holders must adhere to the policies of the TTS.
TTS AMBASSADOR | GEOGRAPHIC AREA OF WORK |
Richard Allen | Vietnam and South-East Asia |
Curie Ahn | Korea, Myanmar and Mongolia |
Benita Padilla | Philippines |
Mirela Bušic | Southeastern Europe including Albania, Bosnia, Croatia, Israel, Macedonia, Montenegro, Moldova, Serbia and Slovenia |
Rudolf Garcia-Gallont | Latin America |
Bijan Eghtesad | Iran |
Francis L. Delmonico | Europe |
Marcelo Cantarovich | 2020-2022 |
Mehmet Haberal | 2018-2020 |
Nancy L. Ascher | 2016-2018 |
Philip J. O'Connell | 2014-2016 |
Francis L. Delmonico | 2012-2014 |
Gerhard Opelz | 2010-2012 |
Jeremy R. Chapman | 2008-2010 |
Nicholas L. Tilney | 2006-2008 |
Kathryn Wood | 2004-2006 |
David E.R. Sutherland | 2002-2004 |
Carl Groth | 2000-2002 |
Oscar Salvatierra, Jr. | 1998-2000 |
Pekka Häyry | 1996-1998 |
John S. Najarian | 1994-1996 |
Sir Roy Calne | 1992-1994 |
Thomas E. Starzl | 1990-1992 |
J. Richard Batchelor | 1988-1990 |
Anthony P. Monaco | 1986-1988 |
Sir Peter J. Morris | 1984-1986 |
Paul I. Terasaki | 1982-1984 |
Hans Balner | 1980-1982 |
Felix T. Rapaport | 1978-1980 |
Leslie Brent | 1976-1978 |
Rupert E. Billingham | 1974-1976 |
Sir Michael Woodruff | 1972-1974 |
Paul S. Russell | 1970-1972 |
Jean Hamburger | 1968-1970 |
John M. Converse | 1967-1968 |
Sir Peter Medawar | 1966-1967 |
D. Bernard Amos | 1966 |
The Transplantation Society has started a historical reference library to be housed in the International Headquarters in Montreal.
Randall E. Morris
Research Professor Emeritus, Stanford, CA, USA
historian@tts.org
The Transplantation Society
International Headquarters
740 Notre-Dame Ouest
Suite 1245
Montréal, QC, H3C 3X6
Canada