Biography:
Claudio Soto graduated from the University of Sydney in 1994 with an MSc, and is a Senior Perfusionist at St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney, being there for the last 26 years. Being the Senior DCD Heart Retrieval and MCS Perfusionist, he plays a valuable role in the retrieval, preservation and assessment of DCD hearts and had a significant role in the world's first DCD heart transplantation in 2014. He’s also involved with hypothermic machine perfusion, as well as ECMO and eCPELLA retrieval programs both domestic and internationally and is heavily involved in ongoing heart preservation research with the units Large Animal Laboratory.
Title : A decade of DCD heart transplantation utilising normothermic machine perfusion in Australia