Pediatrics
The ILTS Pediatrics Committee is composed of high caliber members with relevant backgrounds, skills and experience in the field of pediatric liver transplantation.
Key aims:
- To represent and recruit ILTS members from all disciplines involved in Pediatric liver transplantation,
- To promote education, communication and fellowship in this speciality area,
- To raise standards of clinical care and improve outcomes, including through the development of official ILTS clinical practice guidelines,
- To foster collaborative links with other relevant specialist societies.
Key tasks and dates:
- Meet at the Annual Congress (May-July) to review recent activities and member feedback, discuss council input from the most recent council meeting and develop an agenda for the following year.
- Develop relevant program sessions in ILTS Annual Congress: June-September, submit to program chair (President-Elect) by September 30.
- Review Pediatric abstracts for ILTS Annual Congress: beginning from the abstract closing date (December-January), to be completed one week before the program Committee Meeting in January or February.
- Develop or approve programs or sessions for other ILTS sponsored meetings, e.g. Alex Mowat meeting in London, regional meetings worldwide.
- Review online applications for committee membership annually (January-March) and nominate replacements for members expiring in that year. The process as per ILTS Committees Policy, to be completed four weeks before the Annual Congress.
- Advise and assist ILTS website team re Pediatric content: continuous.
- Report twice yearly to ILTS Council: January-February written report for Winter Council Meeting agenda book, May-June written report for Annual Congress Council Meeting agenda book and chair to present in person.
- Advise the Executive Committee and Council on specialty-related issues, especially education and member recruitment.
Key performance metrics:
- Satisfactory reports to ILTS Council
- Participant numbers and feedback re Pediatric sessions at the Annual Congress and other ILTS-sponsored meetings
- Growth in Pediatric membership
Committee Members:
- Manuel Rodriguez-Davalos – Past Chair {2023} Intermountain – Primary Children’s Hospital, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
- Nam-Joon Yi, MD, PHD – Chair {2024} Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
- George Mazariegos, MD – Vice Chair {2024} Children’s Hospital Of Pittsburgh Of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Arvinder S. Soin, MBBS, MS, FRCS Affiliated Councilor {2026} – Medanta Institute of Liver Transplantation and Regenerative Medicine, Gurugram, India
- Cigdem Arikan, MD {2024} Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey
- Vidyadhar Mali, MCh, FRCS, FAMS {2025} National University Hospital, Singapore
- Hala Abdullatif {2025} Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt
- Koji Hashimoto {2025} Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, USA
- Sugi Subramaniam R V, MBBS., M.S., FMAS., M.Ch., P.D.F. {2025} Kauvery Hospital, Chennai, India
- Qiang Xia, MD {2024} Renji Hospital affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, China
*Committee terms end at Annual Congress in year shown in brackets