Fundamentals of Bile Duct Injuries

Juan Pekolj MD PhD, Chairman of General Surgery Service and of Liver Transplant Unit, is a staff HPB and liver transplant surgeon since 1989 at the Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, a Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary surgery reference unit in South America.

For more than 30 years he has been assisting patients, promoting research and teaching about the management of bile duct injuries. He has been the director of many international courses, invited speaker at international meetings and he has written over 30 indexed papers and book chapters on this topic.

He has built a multidisciplinary team for the management of patients with bile duct injuries that has worked together for almost 20 years.

Victoria Ardiles , MD, PhD is an Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary (HPB) and liver transplant surgeon who works at the Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires since 2001. Currently she is an associated staff of the General Surgical Service (leading the ambulatory laparoscopic cholecystectomy program) and the general coordinator of the Surgical Department. She is an active clinical researcher and teacher of research methodology. She also has a master degree in clinical research and other in health management.

Dr. Ardiles has written numerous papers and book chapters related to hepatobiliary pathology and surgical bile duct injuries. She has co-edited the Springer book Extreme Hepatic Surgery and Other Strategies: Increasing Resectability in Colorectal Liver Metastases .

Juan Glinka , MD, completed a specialization in Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary (HPB) surgery at the Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Argentina, and subsequently an American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS) accredited fellowship in Abdominal Transplantation and HPB Surgery at Western University, Canada, where he now serves as an Assistant Professor of Surgery.

Dr Glinka is an active clinician and researcher in the field and has a special focus on minimally invasive HPB surgery along with Multi-Organ Abdominal Transplantation.