Dr. Blayne Amir Sayed, MD PhD is an Assistant Professor in the University of Toronto Department of Surgery. His primary clinical appointment is in the Division of General & Thoracic Surgery at the Hospital for Sick Children, where he serves as the Surgical Lead for Pediatric Liver Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Surgery. He is also a staff surgeon at Toronto General Hospital and a member of the Ajmera Transplant Centre (University Health Network). Dr. Sayed’s clinical interests include pediatric and adult liver transplantation, living donor liver transplantation, pediatric hepatobiliary malignancies and surgical management of portal hypertension. Dr. Sayed is an Associate Scientist within the Cell Biology program at the Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute. His research focuses on mechanisms of lytic cell death in hepatic ischemia-reperfusion injury and molecular mechanisms of T cell exhaustion in the alloimmune response.