Networking Events

Expand Your Network & Elevate Your Experience at WTC 2025!

WTC 2025 has planned a variety of networking events for your professional development and enjoyment.

Welcome Reception

Saturday, August 2, 2025
5:30pm - 7:00pm
Moscone South – Exhibit Hall (Hall AB)
Complimentary - Pre-registration Required. Sign Up with Congress Registration
WTC 2025 Badge Must be Worn and Guests Must Show a Ticket

Right after the Opening Keynote and Plenary that launches WTC 2025, join us at the Welcome Reception to kick off an exciting series of networking events throughout WTC 2025!

WHCOP & WIT Reception

Saturday, August 2, 2025
7:00pm - 8:30pm
Moscone South – Meeting Room 201-202 / 209-210
Complimentary - Pre-registration Required. Sign Up with Congress Registration - *Limited seats available and will be based on a first come first serve basis.
WTC 2025 Badge Must Be Worn

Forging Ahead: Overcoming Barriers to Career Success and Wellbeing as Women and URM in Transplant

Guest Speaker

Ashley N. Suah, MD

Board certified in surgery, Ashley Suah, MD, is a highly skilled transplant surgeon with a specialty in kidney, pancreas, and liver transplant ….

Board certified in surgery, Ashley Suah, MD, is a highly skilled transplant surgeon with a specialty in kidney, pancreas, and liver transplant.

With a wealth of experience and expertise in transplantation, Dr. Suah is committed to providing the highest quality care and ensuring the best possible outcomes for her patients. She ensures she stays up to date with the latest advancements in transplant surgery techniques and technologies and is passionate about improving the lives of those in need of a life-saving transplant.

In addition to performing transplants, Dr. Suah is an advocate for her patients. She is dedicated to making access to transplant surgery equitable for all, including pushing for equality in gender and racial disparities in transplant. Dr. Suah also educates her patients on the surgery as well was the post-transplant care, so they are fully informed throughout the process.

Along with her devotion to her clinical practice, Dr. Suah has made advancing medical education and mentoring medical students, residents, and fellows an important part of her career.

To learn more details about WTC 2025 Guest speaker, you can click on the link here.

This session will feature a keynote speech, panel discussion and moderated Q&A addressing barriers and facilitators in the ascent to academic and professional leadership as women and underrepresented minorities in transplant. This empowering session will include shared experiences and strategies for navigating macro and micro aggressions. Together with audience participation, we will discuss tools at the individual and programmatic level for overcoming these barriers as we strive to advance our careers and to promote diversity and inclusion in our respective workplace and professional societies.

Following the session, there will be a networking reception to foster ongoing networking and small round table conversations, including wine and light appetizers. To enhance the networking experience, AST Women’s Health Community of Practice (WHCOP) and Women in Transplantation (WIT – an Initiative of The Transplantation Society (TTS)) members will be available to foster ongoing small group conversions, to further the session discussion during this networking reception.

Early Career Networking Event

This complimentary, one-hour in-person event is open to congress registrants and offers an excellent opportunity for medical students, postdocs, trainees, and early-career faculty (within three years in the field of transplantation) to connect and engage with accomplished leaders in the field through dynamic group discussions.