Key aims of the Membership & Communications Committee:

1. To promote membership growth in all countries and disciplines engaged in liver transplantation,
2. To oversee and enhance society communications with current and prospective members worldwide,
3. To seek and represent members’ views to the ILTS leadership.

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Committee Members:

• Gokhan Kabaçam, MD –Chair {2026} Güven Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
• Mario Vilatoba, MD – Past Chair {2025} Instituto Nacional De Ciencias Medicas Y Nutricion Salvador Zubiran, Talpan, Mexico
• Ashish Singhal – Vice Chair {2027} Tampa General Hospital, FL, USA
• Dmitri Bezinover- Affiliated Councilor {2026}, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA
• Yuri Longatto Boteon, MD, PhD – {2024}, Albert Einstein Israelite Hospital, Sao Paulo, Brazil
• Ibrahim Umar Garzali, MBBS, FWACS – {2024} Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano, Nigeria
• Povilas Ignatavicius, MD, PhD, FEBS (HPB) {2026} Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania
• Whitney Jackson, MD {2026} University of Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, USA
• Amit Nair – {2025} University of Rochester Medical Center, New York, USA
• Atoosa Rabiee, MD {2026} Washington DC Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bethesda, MD, USA
• Stacey Rolak, MD {2026} Mayo Clinic Rochester, Minnesota, USA
• Sanjiv Saigal, MD, DM, DNB, MAMS, FINASL, MRCP, FRCP(UK), CCST(UK) {2026} Max Super Specialty Hospital, New Delhi, India
• Rahul Saxena, MS (Gen Surg), FACS {2026} New Era Hospital & Research Institute, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
• Jason Vanatta, MD – {2025} University of Tennessee/James D. Eason Transplant Institute at Methodist University Hospital, Germantown, USA
• David Victor, MD – {2025} Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, USA
• Anna Mrzljak {2027} University Hospital Merkur
• Genco Gencdal {2027} Koç University, Turkey
• Sorabh Kapoor {2027} Zydus Hospital And Healthcare, NC, USA

*Committee terms end at Annual Congress in year shown in brackets

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