MD, PhD, Dr. Fondevila completed his medical education at the University of Navarra, School of Medicine and his training as a surgical resident in the Department of Surgery at the Hospital Clinic in Barcelona. Afterwards, he was accepted in 2002 as a visiting fellow at the Dumont-UCLA Transplant Center and, in 2004, he was the recipient of a Fulbright Foundation Award to continue his work at UCLA, as a research fellow in the area of hepatic ischemia-reperfusion injury. In October 2007, Dr. Fondevila was selected as one of the ten International Guest Scholars of the American College of Surgeons for the year 2008. Currently, Dr. Fondevila is the Chief of Department of General & Digestive Surgery, Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, Spain. He is also Associate Professor of Surgery, Universidad de Barcelona, Spain and Consultant Surgeon in Hepatobiliary Surgery and Liver and Pancreas Transplantation. He is actively involved in clinical protocols to expand organ availability, including through the use of donation after circulatory determination of death (DCD) and live donation (LD) livers. He is also actively involved in basic research, primarily in porcine DCD and partial liver transplant models. Dr. Fondevila is the author of more than 100 articles published in peer-reviewed journals and gives numerous talks annually on transplantation and hepatobiliary surgery at both national and international meetings. In 2012, he received the National Surgery Award from the Spanish Society of Surgeons.