Dr Priya Walabh completed her medical, paediatric and paediatric gastroenterology training at the University of Cape Town, Red Cross Children’s Hospital. She is currently the clinical head of the paediatric gastroenterology/hepatology unit at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, since establishing the unit in 2015. She is also the current president of The South African Transplant Society, and her passion is advocating for improved outcomes for paediatric liver transplantation, with her primary focus being to address disparities in transplantation and organ allocation and the impact of social determinants of health thus aiming to make the “gift of life” equally accessible to all South Africans.

She is a founding member of the national biliary atresia awareness campaign; an initiative aimed at early diagnosis and referral of children with liver diseases like biliary atresia to optimise management options and long-term outcomes.

She also has a special interest in infectious diseases associated with liver transplantation and is a committee member of the Paediatrics group as well as the special Interest Group (SIG): Infectious disease and transplantation and acute liver failure in the International Liver Transplant Society (ILTS). She also belongs to the International Paediatric Transplant Association (IPTA) and is a member of the IPTA outreach and advocacy committee. She has published in international peer-reviewed journals and as first author on CMV in Paediatric liver transplantation in S.A and Disparity in organ distribution in Gauteng province in South Africa: Challenges and solutions. Her motto and vision is to see Transformation in Transplantation in South Africa.