Andrzej (Andre) Baranski is a professor of Surgery in particular of Education of Surgical Techniques for abdominal organ procurement, preservation and transplantation. He is Director of post-graduate Transplant Surgical Training, Abdominal Organ Transplant Centre, University of Leiden Medical Center (LUMC), the Netherlands. He teaches surgical techniques for the procurement, preservation and transplantation of abdominal organs. In 1985, Andrzej completed his medical studies at the University of Warsaw (Poland), and a few years later in 1991, he defended his doctoral thesis in the field of experimental liver transplantation. Until 1990, he was working as a medical doctor and a university lecturer at the University of Warsaw. From 1991 to 1996, he expanded his experience in the field of transplant surgery in Belgium and USA . Since 1997, Andrzej has been working as a senior transplant surgeon consultant at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) where he has been working nationwide on the improvement of surgical techniques for the procurement of abdominal organs and on the further development of the transplantation department in LUMC in the field of liver, pancreas and kidney transplantation.