We are proud to announce that Prof. Dr. Paolo Muiesan has been appointed as the new Editor-in-Chief of Transplantology (ISSN 2673-3943).

Prof. Dr. Paolo Muiesan

Professor of Surgery, University of Florence

Director of Hepato-Pancreatico-Biliary program at Careggi University Hospital, Florence (Italy)

Professor of Hepato-Pancreatico-Biliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation, University of Birmingham (UK)

Prof. Dr. Paolo Muiesan worked in the two largest European liver units: King's College Hospital, and the Queen Elizabeth and Birmingham Childrens’ Hospitals where he was promoted to Professor of HPB Surgery and Transplantation in 2015. In 2019 he became Professor of Surgery at the University of Florence.

In 2002 he started the first liver transplant program for donors after circulatory death in the UK. His areas of clinical and research interest, also include living donor, domino and auxiliary liver transplantation and organ preservation with machine perfusion. Within HPB surgery, his main interests include the treatment of cholangiocarcinoma, liver metastatic disease and extreme HPB procedures.

He organised eight International Meetings on Transplantation from Donors after Circulatory Death. He served as Associate Editor for Liver Transplantation and Transplant International.

Paolo Muiesan also served as Chair of the European Liver and Intestine Transplant Association (ELITA) and as member of the council of ESOT. He is currently a council member of the International Liver Transplantation Society (ILTS) and a past chair of the paediatric committee of ILTS.

He is the author and co-author of 16 book chapters and 270 papers.

We warmly welcome Prof. Dr. Paolo Muiesan as the new Editor-in-Chief of Transplantology, and we look forward to Transplantology progressing to achieve great milestones in the future under his leadership. Further information about the journal can be found here.