Dr. David Grant is Professor of Surgery at the University of Toronto where he is the Surgical Director, Transplantation, University Health Network and a staff surgeon at SickKids. He has published more than 250 papers and book chapters. Research interests include: small bowel transplantation, living donor liver transplantation, transplantation tolerance, and xenotransplantation. Dr. Grant performed the first liver-small bowel transplant in 1989. He is the past-Treasurer of the Canadian Transplant Society, past Chair of the Canadian Liver Transplant Section of the Canadian Transplant Society; and the past President of the International Intestine Transplant Society.