Convidados Internacionais

Dr. Ching-Wei D. Tzeng, MD, is a Professor of Surgical Oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center, specializing in the treatment of hepato-pancreato-biliary (HPB) cancers. He is the Department Vice Chair for Education and HPB Fellowship Program Director, after previously serving as Vice Chair for Clinical Operations. He chairs the SSAT Program Committee and is a member of the AHPBA Executive Council and Program Directors Committee. His research focuses on perioperative quality improvement, cancer surgery standards, and patient-centered opioid reduction protocols. Dr. Tzeng is an educator who has been recognized with multiple teaching awards, including the University of Texas Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award in 2021, his department’s Outstanding Teaching Award for Research in 2018, 2020, and 2022, and Outstanding Clinical Teacher Award in 2023, and MD Anderson’s Freireich Excellence in Teaching Award in 2024.

Dr. Tara S. Kent, MD, MS, is an Associate Professor in Surgery at Harvard Medical School and a pancreatic surgeon at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA (US). Dr. Kent is the program director of the general surgery residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the Vice Chair for Education in the BIDMC Department of Surgery. She is an Associate Editor of HPB. She has been involved in the Americas Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association since 2008 and is currently serving as Secretary. She is also involved in the IHPBA, where she is a member of the Publications Committee and a Council member. Dr. Kent’s research focuses on surgical education and on patient-centered outcomes in pancreatic surgery.

Dr. Rohan Jeyarajah, MD is a board-certified, fellowship-trained surgeon. He specializes in gastrointestinal (GI) and hepatopancreaticobiliary (HPB) surgery, which includes the liver, pancreas, gallbladder, and bile duct. Located at Methodist Richardson Medical Center, Dr. Jeyarajah has been practicing in the DFW area since 1996. Dr. Jeyarajah treats a wide range of GI and HPB conditions, including complex ones. He performs minimally invasive, robotic-assisted surgery to remove pancreatic, liver, rectal, gastric, and esophageal tumors. In addition, Dr. Jeyarajah specializes in treating tumors in the back of the abdomen (retroperitoneal) that require vascular surgery. He works closely with vascular surgeons in these cases.

Dr. William R. Jarnagin was raised outside of Boston, Massachusetts and earned his undergraduate degree in chemistry from Dartmouth College in 1982, a Master’s degree in chemistry from Brandeis University in 1984 and an MD from Rush Medical College in 1988. He completed his training in general surgery at the University of California, San Francisco in 1996. From 1990-93, he completed a research fellowship at the Liver Center Laboratory at San Francisco General Hospital. From 1996-97, he served as the Hepatobiliary Fellow at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC). Since 1997, he has been an attending surgeon at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, where he has served as Chief of the Hepatopancreatobiliary Service since 2008 and was a Vice-Chairman of the Department of Surgery from 2006-2010. He holds the Leslie H. Blumgart, M.D. Chair in Surgical Oncology and is Professor of Surgery at Weill Medical College of Cornell University.

Dr. Jarnagin’s research has focused on genomics, novel therapies and biomarkers of treatment response in patients with biliary tract cancer, intraoperative navigation systems, and improvements in intraoperative management during major liver and pancreas resection. He serves as the PI of two NIH-supported grants investigating treatment of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma and intraoperative navigation for hepatic surgery. He has authored or co-authored over 500 articles in peer-reviewed journals, over 75 book chapters or invited reviews and has co-edited four textbooks. He serves as the senior editor of ‘Blumgart’s Surgery of the Liver, Biliary Tract and Pancreas.’ He has served as the HPB Section Editor for Annals of Surgical Oncology and is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons, HPB and the European Journal of Surgical Research. In addition to the IHPBA and AHPBA, he is a member of several surgical societies, including SUS and ASA. He was a member of the AHPBA Executive Council for over 10 years, serving as the Program Chair (2007-08), Treasurer (2009-11), President (2011-2012); he currently the Past-President of the IHPBA and the President-Elect of the IHPBA Foundation.

Retired Professor of Surgery (2007 – 2023) National University of Singapore Senior Consultant Surgeon and Group Director for Surgery (till 2023) National University Health System , Singapore National Director of Liver Transplantation (till 2022) Singapore Consultant HPB and transplant surgeon (1996-2007) Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, United Kingdom Elected member of Council (2022-2027) Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh Immediate Past President Asia-Pacific Hepato Pancreato Biliary Association (A-PHPBA) President A-PHPBA ( 2021-2023) President-Elect International Hepato Pancreato Biliary Association ( IHPBA ) 2024-2026

Mariano Gimenez, MD, PhD, FSIR
Professor of Surgery, University of Buenos Aires
President of the AHPBA
Director of Image-Guided Surgery IRCAD, University of Strasbourg, France.
President of the DAICIM Foundation