Reunited: A vision for the future

New years bring new beginnings, and we are happy to announce that the International Liver Transplantation Society (ILTS) will be rejoining the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) as sponsors of our Journal, Liver Transplantation (LT). We are both very grateful for all the efforts from both societies that resulted in bringing the 2 groups back together after nearly a 9-year hiatus. As Editor-in-Chief of the Journal and President of the ILTS, we are both very confident this will be a significant achievement that will lead to improvements in the Journal and add value to both societies. We would like to take this opportunity to thank The Transplantation Society, the editors, and the editorial board of Transplantation for their support to ILTS and its members over the past 9 years—a testament to the power of collaboration and teamwork within the transplant community for the ultimate benefit of our patients. The AASLD and the ILTS are natural partners in their dedication to the science and clinical work in liver transplantation and end-stage liver disease. Additionally, liver transplantation has always been a collaborative effort between hepatology, surgery, anesthesia, intensive care, and many other important associated disciplines. Since its inception, our Journal, LT, has been no exception. The collaboration between medicine and surgery was no more apparent than in our Editors-in-Chief, which for the first 4 terms included a surgeon and a hepatologist partner, both working together to produce a journal that highlighted the best science in advanced liver disease and liver transplantation. We are confident this reunification will improve the quality of the Journal as well as the scientific material delivered to both of our memberships. The Journal will now publish the contents from the fantastic ILTS single-topic conferences, consensus meetings, and guidance documents. In addition to broadening our readership, this reunification will expand our editorial board and editorial leadership with its diverse membership of the ILTS by including transplant anesthesiologists, pathologists, and critical care physicians, who all will contribute greatly to the science of liver transplantation, liver failure, and liver surgery. In this issue of LT, we feature our first ILTS meeting summary, the Proceedings from the 28th annual ILTS meeting in Rotterdam. This manuscript is a fantastic summary that all our readers will enjoy, with topics ranging from machine perfusion to immunosuppression, robotic surgery, and acute liver failure. We expect future collaboration from the ILTS meetings including the recent ILTS-ILCA conference, future ILTS symposia, as well as our transplant course at the AASLD Congress. Many members of both the ILTS and the AASLD leadership worked together to make this reunification possible. We are extremely grateful to all of them and their hard work to grow our societies, enhance our educational efforts, and more importantly make our Journal better. We are very excited about this collaboration, and we are sure that you will be too. Now that we've shared this good news, are any of our LT readers humming these classic Peaches & Herb lyrics, "Reunited, and it feels so good"? As always, such changes evolve over time, and we welcome the input of all the members of both of our societies as to future directions this collaboration might take. We wish you all the best in this coming year as we embark on this exciting new project.