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Priya Walabh, South Africa

Clinical head
Paediatric gastroenterology hepatology and nutrition
University of Witwatersrand, Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital

 Clinical head of paediatric gastroenterology/hepatology at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, a tertiary academic hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa, since establishing the unit in 2015. She completed her speciality and subspeciality training at Red Cross Children’s Hospital in Cape Town in 2011. Her passion is paediatric liver transplantation, with her primary focus being to address disparities in transplantation and organ allocation and the impact of social determinants of health thus aiming to make the “gift of life” equally accessible to all South Africans. She also has a special interest in infectious diseases associated with liver transplantation and is a committee member of South African Transplant Society (SATS) and the Paediatric Committee in the ILTS and Interest Group (SIG): Infectious disease and transplantation and ALF SIG in the International Liver Transplant Society (ILTS). Her current role as the co-lead in the SATS liver working group is her current focus especially with a view to establishing a consensus regarding a workable liver transplantation allocation system in South Africa. She also belongs to IPTA and is a member of the IPTA outreach committee. She has published in international peer-reviewed journals and as first author on CMV in Paediatric liver transplantation in S.A and Prognostic markers in paediatric acute liver failure in S.A and is currently involved in numerous collaborative projects in paediatric transplantation.

 

Sessions chaired by Priya Walabh

When Session Room
Tue-24
16:50 - 18:30
Abstract Session — Pediatric transplant 2 Maçka
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