Attendance to the 15th Congress of the Asian Society of Transplantation (CAST)
Dr. Marti Manyalich and Dr. Chloë Ballesté attended the 15th Congress of the Asian Society of Transplantation (CAST) held in Cebu, Philippines as representatives of TPM-DTI Foundation.
From the 28th-30th of November they attended the congress and presented 4 oral communications and 2 posters.
On the 27th DTI leaded with the Philippines chairmans the precongress workshop on Deceased Organ Donation. It was a perfect program for sharing strategies to increase deceased donation with attendees from Pakistan, Srilanka, India, Philippines, Corea, Japan and Singapore.
We thank to the organization for this opportunity and also to all the attendants who visited our stand in Cebu. We will keep in touch!
Sharing international experience on organ donation in Davao, Philippines
Exactly one year later the Philippine delegation, composed by Dr. Francisco E. Sarmiento III, Dr. Benita Padilla and Dr. Maria Theresa Bad-Ang attended the International TPM course in Barcelona in 2016, the first official DTI visit to Philippines has taken place in Davao. The DTI team was composed of Dr. Carmen Pantis, Dr. Sara Alcantara, Dr. Jaume Revuelto, Dr. Daniela Ledo and Dr. Chloë Ballesté.
During the visit, the DTI experts have been tremendously busy! Dr. Bad-Ang arranged outstanding meetings with: the regional Department of Health, Dr. Abdullah Dumama, Regional Director and Dr. Jojo Sinandoling Secretary of Health for ARMM; the Davao Ethical Committee and the Davao Medical Society.
One day visit to the South Philippines Medical Center (SPMC) was conducted by Dr. Bad-Ang’s team and a special ceremony to celebrate the 2nd year of the ISN Sister Hospital Program between SPMC and University of Barcelona.
On the 22nd November it started the 1st Intermediate TPM course in the Philippines with 40 participants from all over the country that finished successfully on the 24th. Our team has been able to share the Spanish model of organ donation system and its adaptation to different regions of the world. The experience of Dr. Pantis who has adapted the Spanish system in her hospital in Oradea reaching donation rates similar to the Spanish ones, has been inspiring for the audience.
We would like to thank to the organizational team in Philippines for their great enthusiasm and hospitality during the preparation and acomplishment of this 1st course!
ERASMUS PROJECT / EUROPEAN VOLUNTARY SERVICE (EVS)
A new edition of the Erasmus Program in its European Volunteer Service (EVS) modality has started this October. The TPM-DTI Foundation has acted again on this occasion as a host of two volunteers, from Poland and Italy, who will develop during a period of nine months the project "Training Programs and Consulting Projects in the field of Donation and Transplantation of Organ and Tissues”. We have yet to join a third volunteer before the end of the year.
This is already the sixth edition of the EVS Program that the Foundation has been carrying out since its inception in 2013. This involves the training of more than 12 people from different European countries who have shown their willingness and commitment to enter into a volunteer program and to be involved for nearly a year in supporting the projects of our TPM-DTI Foundation in Barcelona.
2nd visit to Ireland by TPM-DTI Foundation
From the 11th to 13th of October 2017 the TPM-DTI Foundation visited Ireland for the second time. The stay at the country included a visit to selected hospitals and a training course.
They visited the Cork University Hospital (CUH), the largest university teaching hospital in Ireland. That visit had interventions of the head of the Anaesthesia department, Doctor Brian O’Brien, and the consultant in Emergency Medicine, Adrian Murphy.
Other of the activities included in the visit were doing the analysis of hospital data for the development of strategies to improve and increase the organ donation in CUH as well as assisting to the Organ Donation Study day course: Donation after Cardiac Death held at the Auditorium of the university.
Moreover, during the stay in Ireland, the DTI team also visited the Waterford University Hospital where they discussed with health professionals about their knowledge of the potential of donors, the actions that must be taken to activate the alert and how they feel when donation procedures have already been carried out.
The last day in Waterford a Hospital-Bases Introductory TPM Course was held in Faithlegg Hotel conference. The participation and involvement in the course was great.
EUDONORGAN training course organized by DTI Foundation, September 2017
EUDONORGAN service contract (Training and social awareness for increasing organ donation in the European Union and neighbouring countries” 2016-2019), brings its first results! After dedicating the first 6 months of 2017 to the development of a unique and innovative training tool, the EUDONORGAN implements its training program with exceptional results.
Despite summer holidays, we received 173 applications out of which 101 participants were selected, both health care professionals and other key players involved in the organ donation process.
A total of 28 European countries were represented in the program (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Montenegro, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, The Netherlands, Turkey). Among them there were 51 medical doctors, 27 nurses, one medical student, eight patients and patients’ representatives (four of them transplant recipients), two journalists, eight communication experts mainly working for National Competent Authorities, two other representatives of national authorities or ministries, one manager of health care establishment and one documentalist.
The challenging training program employed a blended learning methodology, by means of webinars, online (via WebApp) and face to face training, and amounted to a maximum of 100 study hours.
During the online training, a WebApp with different routes and scenarios has been available to our participants, according to their profile. Out of the total, 97 participants joined the face to face session along with experts from six different countries: Croatia, France, Italy, Slovenia, Spain, The Netherlands. The program was highly evaluated and put the basis of a strong community of advocates in organ donation. In this regard, an EUDONORGAN Facebook group has been created where we continue to share common initiatives and future steps.
We want to acknowledge the European Parliament and the European Commission for such a unique initiative, the project partners for the ongoing effort and last but not least, the National Competent Authorities, PHA Europe (European Pulmonary Hypertension Association) and other collaborators for their valuable support during the selection procedure. Together we make a difference!
Soon we will be back with further news!
Press & Media
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3rd edition of the Intermediate Transplant Procurement Management Course, Nanning
The third visit of the TPM-DTI team in the province of Guangxi China took place this September from 18th till 22nd , and was combine with both hospital visit and the development of the third Edition of the intermediate Transplant Procurement Management course ,that took place in the beautiful city of Nanning.
The DTI-TPM team was composed by Dr. Amado Andrés, Dr. Mario Chico, Dr. David Paredes, Dr. Chloë Ballesté and Dr. Entela Kondi; who together with the local experts Wenshi Jiang and Catherine Wong and the local director and coordinators of the course prof. Xuyong Sun and Dr. Jianhui Dong made this event successful.
The experts during the first two days, 18th and 19th of September, visited three hospitals in three different cities of the Guangxi province. The hospital visited were Guigang people’s hospital ; The second People´s hospital of Pignan City and The first people´s hospital of Yulin. These three hospitals are the hospitals with important activity in the donation process in the whole region.
Discussions with the health professionals and as well directors of the hospitals were made. Ideas between the experts and the local physicians were exchanged and proposals for improvement were presented.
Following the activities on 20th of September the TPM course started.
Being this course as part of the actions of the cooperation project with the OPO of the 303 Military Hospital in Nanning, had a particular importance in the area and the participation was very plausible. The course was welcomed also by the representative of the Organ Donation Administrative Center and other health authorities.
51 participants coming from different hospitals in the area were granted with a TPM diploma. During the three days of course development they show high interest in following the lecturers and active participation in the workshops. The knowledge and experience the experts shared with the students, will motivate them to be more involved in the organ donation field and to improve their daily clinical practice in their own units.
We expect this course to be effective as the previous ones and to show a great impact in terms of numbers of organs available for transplantation. 
Thanking all the organizers of the course we look forward to the next activity in Guangxi province.
2nd Advanced Course in Kunming & SEUSA program
Last 7th of august TPM- DTI 8 international experts (USA, HK, IRAN, BRAZIL & SPAIN) traveled to kunming for the 2nd edition of TPM Advanced Course. 50 participants from ICU, Emergency and Direction departments attended the course and learned from each other experiences. They showed a lot of motivation and made this course a complete success!
In the meantime the Seusa program in Kunming started with the expertise of USA (Tom Mone) Brazil (Reginaldo Boni) and Spain (JM Dominguez) to contribute improving the KMOPO results by adapting and implementing tools and clinical practices from these successfull models. 
We are all excited with these promising and challenging program!
2nd TPM course in Hong Kong - August 2017
On the 14th of August 2017 we were glad to be once more in the beautiful city of Hong – Kong in where we organized the second edition of the Transplant Procurement Management (TPM) course. At the facilities of the Multi-Disciplinary Simulation and Skills Centre at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital 40 health care professionals, physicians and nurses, were granted with the TPM Diploma.
The course lasted for three days; from 14th till 16th of August, and proved to be fully intense and the participants showed great interest in all the activities; lectures and workshops. Several questions and concrete clinical cases were asked and discussed with the TPM experts.
It was perfectly organized by the local team of Transplant Procurement Managers of Hong Kong, leaded by Jenny Koo, and was strongly supported by the Hospital Authorities. Special thanks to the young students who helped during the course development.
Moreover, a gala dinner was organized in where the DTI team was pleased to meet with all the main actors and policy makers at the Health Care System of the Hong Kong area.
During this dinner the experts were engaged in notable discussions on organ donation and transplantation and several formulas toward improvement in Hong Kong were proposed. Exchange of experience and possibilities for further collaboration were discussed.
Thank you to all colleagues and friends in Hong – Kong and we look so forward to the next editions of the TPM course!
KeTLOD project successfully closed the first phase “Training the Trainers”
From 22nd of May till 25th of May was held in Barcelona the face to face course of the training for trainers of KeTLOD project.
During this week, 20 healthcare professionals representing the Chinese partners universities of KeTLOD consortium were engaged in active learning on how to teach organ donation at higher education level in terms of a postgraduate program.
The “training for trainers” activity started since middle of march with the online phase and got finalized this week with the face to face phase. The aim of this step was to train the Chinese professionals in “how to teach” organ donation to their future students. Once go back to China they will start the practices for opening the organ donation postgraduate program in their respective universities. They will be the transmitters of the knowledge to 140 students that will enroll the KeTLOD postgraduate program within the next few months.
Experts in education and experts in organ donation from DTI foundation, University of Barcelona, University of Bologna and University of Nice were leading the training. Active workshops and active team building exercises characterized the education program. Motivation and involvement from the participants made the course very pleasant and the outcomes very optimistic.
Following the week, on Friday 26th the activities continued with the celebration of the midway of the KeTLOD project development. At the Parc Scientific of Barcelona all the KeTLOD representatives got together with the invited authorities of University of Barcelona, Catalan Transplant Organization (OCATT), The general consul of China in Barcelona and the representative of the Parc Scientific of Barcelona. Greetings messages and feedback speeches were made from the participants.
During this celebration, the 20 Chinese professionals received the diploma of accomplishment of the Training for Trainers course, and symbolic gifts were delivered to the Universities of Barcelona, Bologna, Nice and DTI foundation from the Chinese delegation.
We are very proud to be part of the KeTLOD project and to build a fruitful cooperation with our colleagues in China.
Within KeTLOD; East meets West!
China- WHO-DTI 3rd International Course in Transplant Procurement Management -TPM Shanghai
From 9th till 12th of May in Shanghai was held the 3rd International TPM training course.
Health care professionals from the Renji Hospital Shanghai Jiantong University School of Medicine, the Second Military Medical University, the Shanghai Changhai Hospital and the Huashan Hospital Fudan University, attended 4 days of lectures and workshops about leading practice in organ donation.
The course counted with the collaboration and the support of the World Health Organisation, the China Organ Donation Management Center, the China Organ Transplantation Development Foundation, the Guangdong Red Cross Organ Donation Office, the Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, The First Affiliated Hospital Zhongshan University and the 303 Military Hospital of China in Nanning.
This course is part of the national education plan that aims to the development of voluntary deceased organ donation in the country. Up to date about 1000 TPM doctors and nurses have being trained and 4.080 voluntary deceased organ donors were obtained last year.
