2025 International Speakers

Professor Roslyn B. Mannon, MD

Dr. Roslyn Bernstein Mannon is a Professor of Internal Medicine, and Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, Vice-Chair for Research for the Department of Internal Medicine and Associate Chief of Research in the Division of Nephrology. A Duke-trained nephrologist, Dr. Mannon is a translational investigator focused on late kidney allograft outcomes. She has published over 250 peer-reviewed publications on chronic allograft failure and post-transplant complications and therapeutics. Dr. Mannon is a past-president of the American Society of Transplantation and is a Deputy Editor of the American Journal of Transplantation. She is a Trustee of the Banff Foundation for Allograft Pathology, Chair of American Society of Nephrology Transplant Policy Committee, and Medical Director of the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients. She is a recent recipient of the American Society of Transplantation’s Senior Achievement Award in Clinical Transplantation as well as the American Association of Kidney Patients Medal of Excellence

Dr Peter Nickerson, MD, FRCPC, FCAHS

Dr. Nickerson, a distinguished professor of internal medicine and immunology at the University of Manitoba, is a clinical nephrologist at the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg and a medical consultant for the Transplant Immunology Laboratory at Shared Health.

His research program is focused on the mechanisms underlying transplant rejection, non-invasive techniques for diagnosing kidney transplant rejection, and health system design to improve access to transplants and outcomes for patients.

Dr Megan Sykes, MD

Dr. Sykes is the Michael J. Friedlander Professor of Medicine and Professor of Microbiology & Immunology and Surgical Sciences (in Surgery), Columbia University. Dr. Sykes is the founding Director of the Columbia Center for Translational Immunology and serves as Director of Research for the Transplant Initiative and as Director of Bone Marrow Transplantation Research at Columbia. Dr. Sykes joined Columbia University in April, 2010 from Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, where she was the Harold and Ellen Danser Professor of Surgery and Professor of Medicine (Immunology) and Associate Director of the Transplantation Biology Research Center. Dr. Sykes has over 39 years’ experience in transplantation biology and Type 1 diabetes research, including translational research from animals to clinical trials and mechanistic studies of human transplant recipients. She is currently Past President of the Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies (FOCIS). Dr. Sykes received numerous honors and awards, including the Medawar Prize in 2018 and is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and of the Association of American Physicians.

Dr Cameron R. Wolfe, MBBS(Hons), MPH, FIDSA, FAST
Cameron Wolfe is a Professor of Medicine, in the Division of Infectious Disease at Duke University Medical Center, USA. Cameron's initial training was based in Melbourne, but his work now revolves around clinical care for transplant and immunosuppressed patients as well as the safe transplantation of donors who carry known and unrecognized infections. In addition, his research interests are in HIV transplantation, vaccine responsiveness in immunosuppressed hosts, and management of respiratory viral infections. He was a past Chair of the Disease Transmission Advisory Committee, and a Board Member of the UNOS/OPTN , administering transplant services in the US. He is the current Secretary of the Transplant Infectious Disease section at The Transplantation Society, and a co-faculty of the Duke Human Vaccine Institute.