The Advanced International TPM course closed its 21st edition
The 21st edition of the Advanced International TPM course took place in November 9th to 13th, 2015. This exceptional course with internationally recognized Faculty, gathered fifty participants representing Australia, Austria, China, Croatia, Ireland, Japan, Macedonia, Norway, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, South Africa, Sweden, The Netherlands, Vietnam and USA. Among the faculty we counted with experts from Austria, Australia, Brazil, Colombia, France, Germany Latvia, Spain, Switzerland and the USA. We enjoyed and learned from a great diversity of professional experiences and cultural backgrounds.
With leading edge presentations, simulated scenarios role-play and hands on learning, this course covered the breadth of the donation and transplantation process. More than anything, we wish that all participants went back to their countries and jobs energized by an expanded global perspective, enriched by sharing with international colleagues, and excited by new ideas and approaches to the worldwide lifesaving mission of donation.
TPM Course in Croatia
The second Intermediate Training Course in Transplant Procurement Management took place at Tomislavov Hotel in Zagreb, September 30th to October 2nd, 2015. In collaboration with The Ministry of Health of the Republic of Croatia, The Donor Network of Croatia and TPM-DTI Foundation thirty six healthcare professionals from Croatia, Bulgaria, Bosnia Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro, Moldova and Romania attended the course. Participants from neighboring countries showed great interests in endorsing future activities in the field of organ donation and transplantation development in their hospitals. We wish to extend our particular thanks to Dr. Mirela Busic, Dr. Nikola Žgrablić, the Croatian Faculty and organizing team for making it possible.
New website!
It is our pleasure to share a great news with all of you!
This month DTI Foundation website comes in a new format; more user- friendly. The content is re-organized in a more constructive way and new pages are added to the menu.
Feel free to explore by accessing the following icons: Services, Projects, Collaborations, and Trainings.
For instance, exploring Trainings, you could find the new distribution of our training courses; in Services you will get to know with our activities in Consultancy for Organ Donation and Tissue Banking, Quality Control and Auditing, Awareness Campaigns and Tissue for Research Unit.
Under the icon of Projects you can find information about all our collaboration with the European funded projects.
Moreover, through our website you can access into the oldest International Registry in Organ Donation that DTI Foundation supports: IRODaT
As we are keen and open to new collaborations, we have placed in the website the icon Collaborate in where everyone; citizen or enterprise will find the way to join DTI and to support in the continuity of our commitments. Our main goal remains to raise organ donation in the world and to avoid trade and organ trafficking in order to improve society’s quality of life.
The new website uses our corporative colours, and gives easily access to our social networks and our contact form. It facilitates also the subscription to DTI newsletter
We hope you find practical and attractive the new format of our website.
Enjoy the navigation!
China training course
On September 23th-25th was developed in Kunming, China, the second Intermediate Training Course in Transplant Procurement.
Forty six healthcare professionals, mainly specialists in critical care and surgeons, attended the course. The main topics of the course were donor detection, brain death diagnosis, donor management, family interview, organ viability criteria and organ allocation. The general course evaluation by the participants was 4.91/5.
We wish to extend our particular thanks to The First People’s Hospital of Kunming represented by Dr. Li Li, President and Dr. Chao Li, ICU Chief and KHOPO Director, and to the China Organ Transplantation Development Foundation represented by Mrs. Zhang Ming, Financial Director and Dr. Shaojun Ma, Deputy Secretary. And our special thanks to the local organizing committee.
DTI experts: the first international witnesses of a whole organ donation process in China
On September, DTI was invited to visit the First People´s Hospital of Kunming in Yunnan province (China). During this visit the DTI team had the chance to follow a whole donation process becoming so the first international witnesses. Dr. José María Dominguez and Dr. Reginaldo Boni participated in the confirmation of brain death diagnosis, Dr. Omid Ghobadi supported the local OPO team for the family approach and Dr Chloë Ballesté and Mr. Francesc Martí, joined the Ethics Committee during donation approval. The whole DTI team were invited as well to take part in the donor honor act before organ recovery. During the whole visit, the DTI experts supervised two more donation process. It has been a very fruitful experience for both teams.
Last days to enrol on a new edition of our Advanced International Training Course
We would like to remind you that you still can join us for the 21st edition of the Advanced International Training Course in Transplant Procurement Management, to be held in Barcelona from the 9th to the 13th of November.
It is a technical and scientific training program to get you involved with the organ and tissue donation and transplantation process at national, European and world-wide level.
Please be aware that the registration deadline is October 20th and we have a few places available! If interested, do not hesitate to contact us without delay. You can also know more details of the Course in our web and in the video we have prepared about it.
Participation in the ESOT and CAST2015 congresses
The ESOT Congress, celebrated in the very heart of Europe in September, dealt with the latest contributions in the field of organ and tissue transplantation including the European view on ethical and legal issues. It was an eco-friendly, paperless event with modern educational and training aids, where TPM-DTI team shared with the scientific community its latest results in various fields such as training and cooperation in organs, tissues and cells donation. It was a very enriching experience where we learnt more about organ and tissue transplantation and also about each other.
TPM-DTI shared in the ESOT Congress the two conference papers "SEUSA Process: a successful model to develop a donation system, Trinidad Tobago experience" and “Psychosocial impact of donation Process: Evaluation of living kidney donor satisfaction”.
DTI Foundation has participated also in the 14th Congress of the Asian Society of Transplantation (CAST) in Singapore. The congress featured major themes like kidney transplantation, liver transplantation, organ donation and ethics transplantation in Developing Countries and other solid organ transplantation. DTI was represented by the president, Dr. Martí Manyalich, and the Director of Development and International Cooperation, Dr. Chloë Ballesté.
Training Course in Colombia
On July 7th-10th, the fourth Intermediate Training Course in Transplant Procurement Management took place at Hotel El Prado in Barranquilla, Atlántico. In accomplishment of the MOU signed in 2010 with the “Instituto Nacional de Salud and Red Nacional de Trasplantes, the TPM consulting team carried out a diagnosis study and visited “Hospital Universitario del Norte” and “Clínica Adela de Char”. Thirty five healthcare professionals, mainly specialists in critical care, attended the course. We wish to extend our particular thanks to Dr. Mancel Enrique INS General Director General and Ms. Angelica Salinas Nova National Coordinator for making it possible.
DTI Foundation visits China
DTI Foundation has visited China this August. On our second visit to the Asian country (the last was in 2002), we´ve visited six transplant centers in several cities. The visit was sponsored and organized thanks to the Vice-Minister of Chinese Transplantation, Professor Huang Jiefu, to see the current situation of donation and transplantation, since this year China has declared that they will not use more organs of people executed.
Our International Commission was formed by the Director of the Istanbul Declaration Custodian Group, Professor Francis Delmonico; by the responsable of transplants of the World Health Organization, José Ramon Núñez; and the president of DTI Foundation, Dr. Martí Manyalich. During the trip we´ve visited the Donation and Transplant Foundation in Beijing, the Red Cross, and six hospitals where they showed their situation to levels of donation and transplantation. Finally, the entire delegation of DTI and the International Committee have assisted to the OPOs Congress in Guangzhou, explaining our experiences for China to create its own model.
A Chinese overview
In August DTI Foundation has been very dedicated to China. Dr. Chloë Ballesté has been invited to Wuhan to the Chinese National Transplant Congress held on the 7th-8th of August. All the transplant centres in China were represented and we presented the Deceased donation procurement model. Chinese TPM students attended the congress too and had the chance to exchange experiences. Great improvements where shown and Professor Huang Jiefu commitment to consolidate the system was expressed.
The tour ended in Guangzhou with the National OPO Congress where Dr. Chloë Ballesté joined the group. In addition to the oral communications and the meetings leaded by Prof. Huang Jiefu, TPM-DTI organized, with the precious help of Wenshi Jiang, the first TPM-China Alumni party in where around 25 TPM Chinese students from the past 2 years (trained in Barcelona and in Kunming by TPM) had the chance to gather all together a great evening.
China has moved to a new era in organ donation and transplantation and our foundation is glad to contribute to this change sharing experiences and training professionals in the field.
