Paulo N. Martins MD, PhD, FAST, FACS, FEBS is a Transplant and Hepatobiliary surgeon (associate professor) and principal investigator at University of Massachusetts. He graduated medical school at the Federal University Bahia, Brazil. He did his PhD (Summa cum Laude) in transplant immunology at the University of Berlin-Germany. He was a research post-doc, clinical transplant fellow, and instructor at Harvard University. His basic science research is focused on ischemia reperfusion injury and organ preservation.