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Jon Kobashigawa, MD

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Dr. Jon Kobashigawa is the DSL/Thomas D. Gordon Professor of Medicine and serves as the Director of the Advanced Heart Disease Division and Director of the Heart Transplant Program. He is a past President of the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT), past ISHLT program chair of the 2000 Osaka Meetings, past chair of the ACC/AHA Committee on Heart Failure and Transplantation, past member of UNOS committees and currently President-Elect for the American Society of Transplantation (AST). Dr. Kobashigawa has published over 400 peer-reviewed publications. He has been recognized for his prolific work and contributions to the field of transplantation with a number of awards, including the 2023 ISHLT Lifetime Achievement Award, 2020 AST Award for Senior Achievement in Clinical Transplantation and the 2018 Paul I. Terasaki Clinical Science Award. Finally, Dr. Kobashigawa designed, organized and chaired 17 national and international consensus conferences to address key issues in transplantation. The resulting consensus statements, on which he served as lead author, have helped not only to move the discourse forward, but also to further the development of needed guidelines in these critical areas.

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