Dr. Ronald W. Busuttil is Distinguished Professor and Executive Chairman of the UCLA Department of Surgery and holds the William P. Longmire, Jr. Chair in Surgery. He is the founding Chief of the Division of Liver and Pancreas Transplantation and Director of the Pfleger Liver Institute. In 1984, he founded the Liver Transplant Program at UCLA and has been the Director and Chief Surgeon for 28 years. Dr. Busuttil has authored more than 600 peer reviewed scientific manuscripts, 55 book chapters, and 400 abstracts. He is a Past President of the International Liver Transplantation Society, a Past President of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, Past First Vice President of the American Surgical Association, a past member of the council of The Transplantation Society, and has served on the Board of Directors of United Network for Organ Sharing.
Dr. Goran Klintmalm is chairman and chief of the Annette C. and Harold C. Simmons Transplant Institute at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, and past President of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS). Dr. Klintmalm began the first multi-organ transplant program at Baylor in 1984. The program has now performed over 4,300 liver transplants and over 4,600 kidney transplants to date. In 1999, he performed the first split liver transplant in North Texas and the first adult living donor transplant in Texas in 2001. Dr. Klintmalm is the author of more than 450 peer-reviewed and over 80 non-peer-reviewed publications, editor of 45 textbooks chapters and 250 published abstracts. He is the Editor of 5 textbooks and has served as editor/associate editor/reviewer for multiple journals. established and has maintained the Baylor Biorepository and prospective Clinical Research Database in liver transplantation since 1985.