Vassilios E Papalois Editor & Author

Vassilios E Papalois MD PhD FICS is a Consultant Transplant and General Surgeon at St Mary's and the Hammersmith Hospitals in London, UK. He received his MD and PhD degrees from the Athens University in Greece with Honours, and his post- PhD in Transplantation Immunology at the University of Minnesota with Honours. He received his surgical training in Transplantation at St Mary's Hospital in London and he also completed a Multi Organ Transplant Fellowship at the University of Minnesota in the USA. He has a special interest in kidney (living donor and non-heart beating) transplantation, as well as in pancreatic and islet transplantation. He has been awarded grants for the promotion of living donor and non-heart beating donor kidney transplantation in the UK. He has extensive research experience in the fields of Transplantation, Immunology and Islet Transplantation and he has worked in distinguished laboratories in Greece, UK and the USA. He has 125 publications and he is an active member of the Transplantation Society, the British Transplantation Society, the International Paediatric Transplant Association, the Xenotransplantation Association and the Cell Transplant Society. Nadey S Hakim MD PhD FRCS FACS is the Surgical Director of the Transplant Unit at St Mary's Hospital London. He has a particular interest and expertise in kidney and pancreas transplantation. He received his surgical training at Guy's Hospital, and obtained his PhD in small bowel transplantation from University College London. He completed a Gastrointestinal Fellowship at the Mayo Clinic and a Multiorgan Transplant Fellowship at the University of Minnesota. He has over 100 publications and has authored/edited eight textbooks in Surgery and Transplantation since taking up his position at St Mary's in January 1995.