Editors

Head of Department,
HPB & Liver transplantation,
Kings college hospital NHS trust.
London.

Again a name that needs no introduction for clinicians involved in liver disease. The personality that had the vision and commitment to drive the liver unit at King’s college hospital to its current status as one of the world’s biggest in liver transplantation surgery. Author of over 250 peer-reviewed publications and supervisor for several Ph D students, Prof. Heaton has a strong interest in research and education.

Chair, Division of Transplantation, Mayo Clinic
Chair, Division of Transplantation, Mayo Clinic
Associate Medical Director, Contracting and Payer Relations, Mayo Clinic

Since 2012, Dr. Rosen has served as the Associate Medical Director for Contracting and Payer Relations for Mayo Clinic. He previously served as Surgical Director of Liver Transplantation at Mayo Clinic (1998 – 2008) and as President of the Board of Directors and Medical Director for LifeSource (2007 – 2008), the organ procurement organization serving Minnesota, North and South Dakota. Additionally, Dr. Rosen served as faculty co-chair for the HRSA Transplant Center Growth and Management Collaborative (2007 – 2008) and was a member of the faculty of the HRSA Organ Donation and Transplantation Collaborative (2005 – 2006).

Dr. Rosen graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1977 and received his bachelor’s degree in biochemistry from Harvard University in 1980. He earned his medical degree from Mayo Medical School in 1984, and completed a residency in general surgery in 1989 and a fellowship in transplantation surgery in 1991 at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine.

Prior positions held by Dr. Rosen include Surgical Director of Liver Transplantation at St. Luke’s Hospital in Kansas City (1991 – 1993), Senior Associate Consultant in Transplantation Surgery at Mayo Clinic Rochester (1993 – 1994), and Associate Professor of Surgery in the Division of Transplantation Surgery at the University of Florida (1995 – 1998).

Academic and clinical areas of interest include liver transplantation, living donor liver transplantation, transplantation for cholangiocarcinoma and other hepatobiliary tumors, and deceased donor organ utilization and procurement.

Again another giant in the field of liver surgery Prof. Daniel Cherqui received his surgical training at the University of Paris and completed a liver transplant fellowship at the University of Chicago. He was chief of the HPB Surgery and Liver Transplant program at Henri Mondor Hospital in Paris and at Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York. He is presently the Surgical Director of Liver Transplantation at Paul Brousse Hospital in Villejuif, France, and Professor of Surgery at Université Paris Sud. He is an internationally-renowned liver surgeon and has published extensively (>200 original publications and many reviews and book chapters). He is highly experienced in both liver transplantation and resection and is considered one of the pioneers of laparoscopic liver surgery by many all around the world. Inncidentally he is also a skilled musician and plays a mean lead guitar!! Once again someone who is a privilege to meet.

Chair, Department of Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Diseases
Professor of Surgery
Tufts University School of Medicine
Lahey Medical Center
Burlington, USA.

Associate Professor
Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University
Associate Professor of Surgery, Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, Samsung Medical Center
Associate Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine

A man of great intelligence and superb technical skill, Prof. Kwon’s medical education and surgical training including liver transplant fellowship were all done in Korea at Seoul National University and Samsung Medical Center. He is an expert in liver transplantation having operated more than 900 cases and laparoscopic liver resections with over 600 cases. He also has performed more than 40 totally laparoscopic donor hepatectomy for adult living donor liver transplantation, having the largest clinical series in the world. He participated in the development of the first and only bioartifical liver support system in Korea. He is a board member of the The Korean Association of HBP Surgery, the The Korea Society for Transplantation and The Korean Liver Transplantation Study Group and the Korean Laparoscopic Surgery Study Group. In addition he is a wonderful host and keen teacher!!

Qualifications:
MBBS (1993, Mysore, India), FRCS (1997, Glasgow, UK), FRCR (2000, London, UK), IR fellow (2002, Oxford, UK),
Present position and job profile:
Director of Interventional Radiology & Interventional Oncology, Global Hospitals, India, Managing all IR services across three super speciality Global hospitals at Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai, leading and training a team of 5 interventional Radiologists across three sites. Currently involved in setting up a new IR service at a new hospital of Global Group in Bangalore.
Past positions:
Consultant Radiologist with an interest in Interventional Radiology, Manipal Hospital, Bangalore (2008 to 2011)
Consultant Radiologist with an interest in Interventional Radiology at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Aylesbury, UK (2003 to 2008).
Special skills and achievements:

• All aspects of General Interventional Radiology.
• Set up a fully fledged IR service at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in 2003.
• Published over 25 articles in peer reviewed journals, book chapters, textbooks for FRCR examination and textbook for surgeons.
• Regular Speaker at various National and International Medical Conference.
• Past NICE advisor for Interventional Radiology (2007-2010).
• Past Committee member of British Society of Interventional Radiology (BSIR, UK)
• Organized the first Global Interventional Radiology symposium(GIRS) in Bangalore, July 2013 (www.girsindia.com)
• Conducted the first live case of Radioembolisation (SIRT) in India at GLAIRE meet in Chennai
• Recently published the first successful case of Prostate Artery embolization in South India, July 2014.
• Current Proctor for India and Part of South east Asia for Radioembolisation (SIRT) procedures for Ranbaxy, India and Sirtex, Singapore.

Special interests:
Liver Cancer IR procedures like TACE, RF ablation and Radioembolisation (SIRT), Trainer for TIPSS procedures, Management of Budd-Chiari Syndrome, special expertise in management of post liver and kidney transplantation complications, Uterine Fibroid Embolisation, Varicose Vein IR Procedures like Foam Sclerotherapy, recent interest in starting Prostate Artery Embolisation.

Surgical Director of Liver Transplantation at Paul Brousse Hospital in Villejuif, France, and Professor of Surgery at Université Paris Sud.

Prof. Daniel Cherqui received his surgical training at the University of Paris and completed a liver transplant fellowship at the University of Chicago. He was chief of the HPB Surgery and Liver Transplant program at Henri Mondor Hospital in Paris and at Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York. He is presently the Surgical Director of Liver Transplantation at Paul Brousse Hospital in Villejuif, France, and Professor of Surgery at Université Paris Sud. He is an internationally-renowned liver surgeon and has published extensively (>200 original publications and many reviews and book chapters). He is highly experienced in both liver transplantation and resection and is considered one of the pioneers of laparoscopic liver surgery.

Director of liver transplantation,
Florence Nightingale Hospital, İstanbul,
Turkey.
President of Turkish Liver transplantation society.

Yaman Tokat, M.D.was born in 1959 in İzmir/ TURKEY. He got his medical degree at the Ege University Medical School, İZMİR. He also got his residency in surgery and his titles in the same place.
He is married and has one daughter.

 
He had his liver transplantation training in Cambridge / England under Sir ROY CALNE’S supervision.
In 1994 he started the liver transplantation program and in 1999 he started the first succesful living donor liver transplant program in TURKEY. Till then he performed the hıghest number of liver transplants in Turkey.
In 2002 he was appointed as the Professor of Surgery,

 
In 2005he moved to İstanbul Florence Nightingale Hospital and Bilim University and he started a liver transplant program with his team. He performed more than 1000 liver transplants and trained many young surgeons. He gave more than 300 hundred lectures all around the world. He published more than 200 articles in wide known journals.
He is currently working as the director of liver transplantation in Florence Nightingale Hospital, İSTANBUL/TURKEY,and president of Turkish Liver transplantation society.

Consultant Interventional Radiologist
Kings college hospital NHS trust.
London.
A senior member of the radiology team at King’s College hospital, that reviews and reports on over 2000 HPB cases a year. Well versed in interventional radiology and extremely experienced in diagnostic studies.

Prof. Nigel Heaton
Head of Department,
HPB & Liver transplantation,
Kings college hospital NHS trust.
London.

Again a name that needs no introduction for clinicians involved in liver disease. The personality that had the vision and commitment to drive the liver unit at King’s college hospital to its current status as one of the world’s biggest in liver transplantation surgery. Author of over 250 peer-reviewed publications and supervisor for several Ph D students, Prof. Heaton has a strong interest in research and education.

Editor, LIVERIMAGE.

Professor of Liver Transplantation,
King’s College Hospital, London.

Head of Division,
HPB Surgery & Liver Transplantation.
Global Hospitals, India.
Email: mohamedrela@gmail.com Fax: +91 40 232 444 55.
Personal Secretary: Mr Farook: 040 2324 4444 Ext. 508. Mobile: 099 51 830999.

An innovative, and technically superb surgeon who needs no introduction in the world of liver surgery and transplantation. He has since 2000 held the Guinness book of world records title for having performed a transplant on the world’s youngest recipient successfully.

 
Following his surgical training Prof. Rela started work in 1991 at King’s college hospital, London at a time when liver transplantation was just gaining acceptance in Europe. Working with the biggest names in liver transplantation at the time Prof. Roy Calne, KC Tan and Prof. Roger Williams gave Prof. Rela an early and solid start in the field when there were hardly 5 -10 liver transplant centers in the world. Over the next 15 years, Prof Nigel Heaton and Mohamed Rela formed a partnership that along with other notable personalities built King’s College Hospital into Europe’s busiest liver transplant unit for both adults and children. A meticulous and fantastically gifted surgeon, Mohamed when at King’s College Hospital, pioneered the ex-situ split liver transplantation technique; and built up one of the largest experiences in the world in Auxiliary Liver Transplantation. His area of special interest is liver transplantation in children. In March 1999, he carried out the first living related liver transplant on a child with acute liver failure in the UK. His vast experience of over 1200 liver transplants, also transformed hepato-biliary oncology surgery in the late 1990s. He earned a reputation for performing Whipple’s surgery for pancreatic cancer in the presence of vascular invasion, and successful resections for complex Cholangiocarcinomas and HCC in London.

 
He currently works in India, where he has set up a successful Living Donor Liver Transplant program performing over 150 liver transplants a year. In a short span of 4 years his unit is clearly the best-recognized center for liver and pancreatic surgery in the sub-continent. His unit is widely credited for having performed the country’s first split liver transplant and first swap transplant amongst others. Despite these achievements he continues to hold his professorial chair at King’s college hospital, London.

 
Over and above his surgical expertise he has a strong interest in academics with over 240 publications in peer-reviewed journals to his credit. His research interest is in the field of clinical liver transplantation but he has developed animal models for hydrodynamic gene therapy. Moreover, Mohamed is a talented speaker whose astute observations and innovative surgical thinking has made him one of the worlds most authoritative and respected speakers with the honor of several key note lectures worldwide every year. But perhaps his greatest contribution to the field is as a teacher to countless number of young surgeons who have gone on to flourish and develop the specialty worldwide.

 
By Dr. Tom Cherian MBBS; FRCS (G Surg); FRCS (I-Collegiate).
CCST (UK). Advanced Transplant fellowship (London).

Prof. Dr. Tom Cherian MBBS; FRCS (G Surg); FRCS (I-Collegiate).
CCST (UK). Advanced Liver Transplant Fellowship (London).

Professor, Liver Transplantation (Hon).
Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad-10.

Group Director,
HPB Surgery & Liver Transplantation.
Care Hospitals.

Mobile: +91 9550 777700.
Email: tomcherian247@gmail.com Fax: +91 40304 18488.
Personal Secretary- Mr Teja: +91 40 3041 8888. Mobile: +91 9618 555 807

Education & Training
Following medical qualification, Dr Cherian completed his basic surgical training and passed his FRCS in England. He was then selected for higher specialist training in HPB and transplant surgery at Birmingham and obtained his MCh equivalent, sub speciality FRCS from the Royal college of Surgeons. In 2008 he received his Specialist Training Completion Certificate [CCST] from London and in 2009 the European board Diploma in Transplantation from Switzerland. Upon finishing his training Dr. Cherian spent 4 years at King’s College hospital, London completing an advanced transplant fellowship before joining Global Hospitals, India in 2012.

Distinctions
He is an avid researcher and has been the recipient of over 8 Travel Grants in the UK, been a British Journal of Surgery Prize paper session speaker twice, Sub-investigator for several Phase 3 international RCTs, with about 70 Publications and over 90 International Presentations to his credit. He is an honorary Clinical tutor and MD Examiner for the University of Pisa, in Italy and has been an invited speaker for several international conferences. He has also been a course director for several advanced laparoscopic & surgical skills workshops and is an American college of surgeon’s instructor in ATLS.

Dr Cherian has been in the field of HPB surgery and transplantation for over 10 years and has significant experience in advanced pancreatic surgery, major liver resections, and laparoscopic liver resections. He has contributed a major role in over 200 adult and paediatric liver Transplants; and has extensive experience in Split, Living Related and auxiliary liver transplants. Most importantly he has trained several consultants advanced surgical procedures such as- pancreatic & liver resections, ex-situ liver splitting, multi-organ retrieval & living related liver transplantation.