Committees
Congress Board
Steven Paraskevas
Congress Co-chair
Corinne Hoesli
Congress Co-chair
Lorenzo Piemonti
IPITA President
Michael Rickels
IPITA Treasurer
Hanne Scholz
IPITA President-Elect
John Fung
TTS Representative
Cristina Nostro
Scientific Program Chair
James Shapiro
Finance Committee Chair
Local Organizing Committee
- Steven Paraskevas, Montreal, Canada
- Corinne Hoesli, Montreal, Canada
- Cristina Nostro, Toronto, Canada
- Jean Tchervenkov, Montreal, Canada
- Trevor Reichman, Toronto, Canada
- Rohan Kumar, Montreal, Canada
- Yasaman Aghazadeh, YIC Liaison Montreal, Canada
- Paraish Misra, YIC Liaison Montreal, Canada
- Marcelo Cantarovich, Montreal, Canada
- Andrew Pepper, Edmonton, Canada
- Guy Rutter, Montreal, Canada
- Justin Manuel, Toronto, Canada
- Marco Gasparrini, Montreal, Canada
- Catherine Parmentier, Toronto, Canada
Scientific Program Committee
- Scientific Program Committee Chair
Cristina Nostro, Canada - Section 1: Clinical Pancreas Transplantation
Jonathan Fridell, USA
Silke Niederhaus, USA
Henry Pleass, AU - Section 2: Clinical Islet Transplantation
Julie Kerr-Conte, France
Paul Johnson, UK
Piotr Witkowski, USA
Shareen Forbes, UK
Peter Senior, Canada - Section 3: Stem Cell, Bioengineering and Xeno
Jeff Millman, USA
Françoise Carlotti, Netherlands
Alice Tomei, USA
Valeria Sordi, Italy
Finance Committee
- Finance Committee Chair
James Shapiro, Canada - IPITA Treasurer
Michael Rickels, USA - IPITA President-Elect
Hanne Scholz, Norway - Conference Co-Chair
Corinne Hoesli, Canada - Finance committee members
Thierry Berney, Switzerland
Raja Kandaswamy, USA - TTS Director, Finance
Denise Rainville, Canada