Full Name
Nazia Selzner
Job Title
Medical Director
Company/Institution/ Organization
University of Toronto
Speaker Bio
Dr. Nazia Selzner is a Transplant Hepatologist, the Director of Center for Living Organ Donation and Medical Director of the Living Donor Liver Transplantation at the Ajmera Transplant Center, Professor of Medicine and a Clinician Scientist at the University of Toronto. She is also Scientist at the Institute for Medical Science (IMS) in Toronto, Canada. Dr Selzner graduated from Medical School at the University of Paris VII, France and completed her Gastroenterology training in France. She completed her PhD in 2003 at the University of Paris VII, France, after four years of research fellowship at Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC and at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Her basic research interest is in on mechanism of ischemia/reperfusion injury of the liver. Her clinical research is focused on increasing access to liver transplantation and LDLT. She is recipient of numerous national and international awards has published over 200 peer reviewed manuscripts in the area of living organ donation, transplantation and reperfusion injury and is Executive Editor of Transplantation International and Associate Editor of Journal of Hepatology. She is the immediate Past President of the International Liver Transplantation Society (ILTS).
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