Dr. Julie Heimbach is a professor of surgery and the Director of the William Von Liebig Center for transplantation at Mayo Clinic in Rochester MN.  She is an abdominal transplant surgeon who has focused on living donor liver transplantation, liver transplantation for malignancies, and issues of obesity and transplantation.  Dr Heimbach has previously served as the chair of the OPTN/UNOS Liver Committee, on the council of American Society of Transplant Surgeons, and the governing board of the AASLD, and currently serves as an Associate Editor for both of American Journal of Transplantation, and for the Journal of Hepatology.