Maria Irene Bellini

Maria Irene Bellini is a Transplant Surgeon in Belfast and Social Care Trust. She graduated from the University of Tor Vergata in Rome (IT) in 2007 and very early in her career, she showed an interest in research and transplantation. She trained as a general and transplant surgeon in the same University, achieving a certification of completion of training in 2014 and a research doctorate in 2015. She moved to the UK in 2013, to complete her PhD in Oxford (UK) and undertake further subspecialty training. During this time, she developed an interest in organ perfusion devices and she held the responsibility for the machine perfusion clinical program at Imperial College London (UK) from 2015 until July 2019. She is a Fellow of the European Board of Surgery and an Associate Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. She is also a Board Member of the European Kidney Transplant Section (EKITA) Board member of the Education Committee of the European Society for Organ Transplantation and Lead for the Educational e-platform Transplant Live. She's also the Lead for the ASGBI (Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland) Women in Surgery section. Maria Irene has broad experience as author and peer-reviewer; she is also involved in editorial board membership of scientific journals as Transplant International and World Journal of Transplantation.