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Renal Transplant Symposium

Renal Transplant Symposium

Sat, Nov 14, 2026
8:00am to 6:00pm PT

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Reza Abdi, MD
Reza Abdi, MD Professor of Medicine Division of Neprhology, UCLA

Director of Kidney Transplant Immunobiology Program
UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine
Los Angeles, CA

Abbas Ardehali, MD, FACS
Abbas Ardehali, MD, FACS Professor of Surgery and Medicine at UCLA Division of Cardiology, UCLA

Director of the Heart, Lung, and Heart-Lung Transplant Programs
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Los Angeles, CA

Suphamai (Michael) Bunnapradist, MD, MS
Suphamai (Michael) Bunnapradist, MD, MS Professor of Clinical Medicine Division of Neprhology, UCLA

David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Los Angeles, CA

Georg A. Böhmig, MD
Georg A. Böhmig, MD Professor of Medicine Division of Nephrology and Dialysis

Medical University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria

John D. Cleveland, MD
John D. Cleveland, MD Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery Division of Cariology, Children's Hospital

Program Director, Congenital Cardiac Surgery Fellowship
Associate Chief, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA

David K.C. Cooper, MD, PhD, FRCS
David K.C. Cooper, MD, PhD, FRCS Adjunct Professor of Surgery, Thomas E. Starzl Department of Surgery

Transplantation Institute, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pittsburgh, PA

Mike Curtis, PhD
Mike Curtis, PhD President & Chief Executive Officer at eGenesis

Gabriel Danovitch, MD
Gabriel Danovitch, MD Distinguished Professor Emeritus UCLA Division of Nephrology

Philip Halloran, MD, PhD OC
Philip Halloran, MD, PhD OC Director, Alberta Transplant Applied Genomics Centre Medicine, University of Alberta

Professor of Medicine, University of Alberta,
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Stanley Jordan, MD
Stanley Jordan, MD Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics Division of Nephrology, Cedars-Sinai

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Director of Nephrology, the Kidney Transplant Program, and the
HLA and Transplant Immunology Laboratory
Los Angeles, CA

Sara Larson, MD
Sara Larson, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine Division of Hematology-Oncology, UCLA

UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine
Los Angeles, CA

Zhongwei Li, PhD
Zhongwei Li, PhD Associate Professor

Medicine, Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine

Elaine Reed, PhD
Elaine Reed, PhD Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Director of the UCLA Immunogenetics Center
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Los Angeles, CA

Leonardo Riella, MD, PhD
Leonardo Riella, MD, PhD Medical Director, Kidney Transplant Program

Medical Director, Kidney Transplant Program,
Massachusetts General Hospital
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

Kaseem Safa, MD
Kaseem Safa, MD Associate Professor Division of Nephrology, UCLA

Medical Director, UCLA Kidney Transplant Program
UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine
Los Angeles, CA

Neal Smith, MD, PhD
Neal Smith, MD, PhD Associate Professor

Clinical and Laboratory Pathology, Anatomic Pathology
Mass General Brigham
Boston, MA

Shikhar Tripathi, MD
Shikhar Tripathi, MD Professor

Department of Hematology
Transplantation Institute
Pittsburgh, PA

Jeffrey Veale, MD
Jeffrey Veale, MD Professor of Urology at UCLA Urology

Director of the UCLA Kidney Transplant Exchange Program
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Los Angeles, CA

Falvio Vicenti, MD
Falvio Vicenti, MD Clinical Professor of Medicine and Surgery

Endowed Chair in Kidney Transplantation
UCSF
San Francisco, CA

Eckhard Wold, PhD
Eckhard Wold, PhD Professor

Chair of Molecular Animal Breeding and Biotechnology
Gene Center and Department of Veterinary Sciences
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Munich, Germany

Yangzhi Zhu, PhD
Yangzhi Zhu, PhD Director, Biomedical Device Center

Associate Professor and Core Faculty,
Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation
Los Angeles, CA