Lilia Martinez de la Maza MD, MSc, PhD is an HPB and transplant surgeon actually working in the transplantation surgery department in Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden. She graduated as an MD in Universidad Nacional Autonóma de México in Mexico City. Driven by the desire of having HPB and transplant surgery since the beginning of her surgical career, she moved to Spain 2010 where she completed her surgical residency at Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, one of the top leader centers in HPB and transplantation in the world. Her interest in organ transplantation led her also to completing the International Masters in Donation and Transplantation of Organs, Tissues and Cells by the DTI and University of Barcelona. She continued with her phD completion in the University of Barcelona by the year 2020. Through all these years her passion for surgery has not only developed in the academical world but hardworking as a general, minimally invasive and HBP surgeon for several years in Barcelona. In 2020 she moved to Sweden for fellowship and Postdoc in transplantation surgery in Karolinska University Hospital. Where she is finally working as a senior specialist as an HPB and Transplantation surgeon since 2020. She has been also involved in the introduction of the DCD-NRP in Sweden.