**Meet the editor**

Dr. Georgios Tsoulfas received his medical degree from the Brown University School of Medicine and completed his general surgery residency at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics as well as a transplant research fellowship at the Starzl Transplant Institute, University of Pittsburgh. He then completed a 2-year transplantation surgery fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospi-

tal, Harvard Medical School, and then joined the Division of Solid Organ Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Surgery at the University of Rochester Medical Center as an Assistant Professor of Surgery. He has currently moved back to Greece, where he is an Associate Professor of Surgery at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has published over 70 papers in peer-reviewed journals and in PubMed as well as 17 book chapters. He is a reviewer of over 40 International Journals and is an Editorial Board member of several others.

He is currently the Vice Chair of the International Relations Committee of the American College of Surgeons and the World President of the International College of Surgeons.

Contents

**Preface IX**

**Section 1 Organ Donation 1**

Chapter 1 **Organ Donation 3**

Young-Nam Roh

**Deceased Donor 33**

**for a Change 47** Félix Cantarovich

**Donation 89**

**Organ Procurement 69**

Chapter 2 **Organ Donation and Transplantation: "Life after Death" 17**

Chapter 3 **Procurement of Abdominal Organs in Multi-Organ Donation in**

Chapter 4 **The Society, the Barriers to Organ Donation and Alternatives**

Chapter 5 **The Process of Organ Donation from Non-Living Donors: A**

Chapter 6 **Family-Centered Care to Improve Family Consent for Organ**

Alessandra Ionescu Maddalena and Roberta Barelli

Chapter 7 **Current Situation of Organ Donation in China 105** Yingzi Ming, Baoren Tu and Quan Zhuang

**Case-Based Journey from Potential Donor Identification to**

Maria Grazia Bocci, Alessia Prestifilippo, Ciro D'Alò, Alessandro Barelli, Massimo Antonelli, Emiliano Cingolani, Alessandra Tersali,

Alyssa Green, Peter G. Thomas, Rebecca Wilde-Onia, Scott J. Kohler, Joan D. Sweeney, Deborah M. Stahlnecker and Stanislaw P. Stawicki

Bulang He, Xiuwu Han and Michael A. Fink

Kanmani Job and Anooja Antony
