George V. Mazariegos, MD, is Chief of Pediatric Transplantation at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Hillman Center for Pediatric Transplantation and at the Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute. He is a professor at the University of Pittsburgh in the departments of Surgery, Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine and holds the Jamie Lee Curtis Chair in Pediatric Transplantation Surgery. He is an active member of the American Surgical Association, the Society for University Surgeons and the Intestinal Rehabilitation and Transplantation Association (IRTA) and currently serves as Chair of the Pediatric Committee in the International Liver Transplant Society (ILTS). In 2018, Dr. Mazariegos and colleagues founded the Starzl Network for Excellence in Pediatric Transplantation www.starzlnetwork.org - a consortium bringing innovation and tech partners together with patients, families and transplant centers to transform outcomes in children receiving transplantation. With active grants from PCORI, AHRQ, and NIH/SBIR, the network is actively leading investigations into improving patient engagement in transplant research, studying dissemination of quality-of-life surveys via mobile app technology and developing machine learning algorithms for transplantation decision support.