Liver and Intestinal Community of Practice (LICOP)

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2024-2025 Executive Committee

2023-2024 Activities

• Promote research to improve patient care and advance the field of liver and intestinal adult and pediatric transplantation through the LICOP Grant Program.
• Explore expanding capacity for pediatric living donor liver transplant in the U.S.
• Examine receiving adolescent patients: Transition of Care guide for adult hepatologists. 
• Submit a minimum of 5 program proposals for ATC 2024 (with at least 2 co-sponsored with other COPs).
• Develop ideas for white papers that serves the interested of the LICOP and AST at large related to liver and/or intestinal transplantation. 
• Use social media to educate, promote, and engage the transplant liver and intestinal workforce.
• Create opportunities to expand the engagement of LICOP members within the LICOP Subcommittees. 
• Host a LICOP Controversies Conference in 2024. 
• Continue to develop educational offerings and resources for the field of liver and intestinal transplantation.
• Conduct original research projects that address unanswered questions in liver and/or intestinal transplantation. 
• Survey LICOP members for response to UNOS policies for public comment and develop a comprehensive response.
• Design intestine and multivesicular transplant-specific programmatic planning for ATC 2024.
• Work on operationalizing multicenter IRB. 
• Produce manuscript for national surveys regarding immunosuppression practices and new project regarding quantification of morbidity on TPN. 
• Development program material for ATC specific to ethical issue in liver transplant.
• Host an in-person LICOP Education Subcommittee meeting at AASLD Liver Meeting 2023. 
• Foster professional development of trainee/junior faculty through the LICOP Mentoring Program. 
• Offer 3 LICOP Travel Grants to ATC 2024.
• Highlight LICOP members for their contributions through AST nominations.