Madeleine van Dijk started her career in organ transplantation in 2020 as a machine perfusion specialist in the Dutch implementation study of Normothermic Regional Perfusion (NRP), after completing her study in Life Science & Technology at the Technical University in Delft, the Netherlands. She currently works as an Organ Perfusionist & Transplant Coordinator (OPTC) in the joined specialist team of OPTCs between Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) and University Medical Center Utrecht (UMCU) in the Netherlands.

The OPTC is a dual responsibility job. As transplant co-ordinator, she co-ordinates incoming donor organ offers of heart, lung, liver, and pancreas from the Eurotransplant network for recipients in the LUMC and UMCU. As organ perfusionist, she performs the different modalities of liver perfusion (DHOPE, NMP, NRP)
currently in clinical use by the LUMC.

Next to her clinical work, Madeleine is pursuing her PhD in liver perfusion research. In particular, she conducts normothermic perfusion experiments to investigate if this platform can be used to reduce hepatic steatosis in marginal donor livers.