Travel Grant Award Winners

AFDT is proud to continue its legacy of supporting education initiatives in the transplant community by offering travel grants to a select number of transplant professionals whose abstract is accepted for oral presentation. The $1,000 (USD) grant is awarded to help abstract presenters cover the cost of travel and lodging to present their abstract.

Living Donation

Kenneth Chavin

Temple University Hospital
2026

Lucy Pedley

The University of Texas Medical Branch
2026

Angele Lacks

VCU Health System
2026

Michael Chua

UC San Diego Health System
2026

Milinda Cunningham

Montefiore Medical Center
2026

Valerie Klitzke

UVA Health, Transplant Services
2026

Kathy Zuar

Northwell Health
2026

Heather Swonger

Virginia Mason Medical Center
2026

Katey Hellickson

Cleveland Clinic
2026

Daniel Miller

Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania - Penn Transplant Institute
2026

Eugenia Gooden Gudino

University Health
2026

Ashley Alarcon

Cedars Sinai
2026

Histocompatibility Basic and Specialist

Eritza Marie Colon Barbosa

Auxilio Mutuo Hospital- Histocompatability and Immunogenetics Laboratory
2026
Basic

Erica Malik

Stanford HLA Lab
2026
Basic

Michael Ponisciak

American National Red Cross
2026
Specialist

Jessica Gugliuzza

KSL Diagnostics
2026
Specialist

Eshe Malone

UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
2026
Specialist

Transplant Quality Institute

Nicole Platt

Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
2026

Michelle Martha Estrada

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
2026

Kaelyn Lopez

UW Health
2026

Jonathan Deanda

Covenant Renal Transplant Center
2026

Laiba Aurangzeb

Tampa General Hospital
2026

Brooke Atkinson

UCHealth
2026

Patrick Wygand

Northwell Health
2026

Hannah Lovell

University Health Transplant Institute
2026

Jessica McKnight

Temple University Hospital
2026

Mercedes Islas

Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin Transplant Center
2026

Karissa Braden

Ann and Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
2026

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