Saturday, August 29, 2026
12:00 PM UTC
Log Term Care After Liver Transplantation
Zita Galvin, MD
Consultant Gastroenterologist and Hepatologist · St. Vincent’s Healthcare Group in Dublin · Ireland
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About This Conference
This State-of-The-Art lecture will provide an overview of the evolving challenges and opportunities in the lifelong management of liver transplant recipients. The session will focus on optimizing long-term graft and patient survival through comprehensive post-transplant care, including immunosuppression management, prevention of metabolic complications, cardiovascular risk reduction, malignancy surveillance, infection prevention, and monitoring for recurrent or de novo liver disease. The talk will also highlight the growing importance of multidisciplinary care, patient engagement, frailty assessment, mental health, and quality-of-life outcomes as the transplant population continues to age and expand.
About the Speaker
Transplant HepatologyDr. Zita Galvin is a Consultant Gastroenterologist and Hepatologist at St. Vincent’s Healthcare Group in Dublin, Ireland. She graduated from University College Dublin Medical School in 2008 and also holds a degree in Pharmacy from Trinity College Dublin. Dr. Galvin completed a clinical research MD focused on complications of portal hypertension at University College Dublin and Mater Misericordiae University Hospital. After completing her training in Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology, and Hepatology in Ireland, she pursued fellowship training in Transplant Hepatology at the Multi-Organ Transplant Program at Toronto General Hospital, Canada. From 2017 to 2021, she served as Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto and Staff Gastroenterologist and Hepatologist at Toronto General Hospital, where she also held leadership roles as Director of Education for the Multi-Organ Transplant Program and Director of the Transplant Hepatology Fellowship Program. Dr. Galvin is deeply committed to medical education, mentorship, and transplant hepatology. She serves on the board of the Irish Society of Gastroenterology and is a member of the Education and Scholarship Committee of the International Liver Transplant Society. She has authored numerous academic publications and regularly presents at national and international scientific meetings.