Concluded successfully the EMPODaT International Assessment Seminars
During June, have been completed two of the three International Assessment Seminars foreseen within the EMPODaT project. They have already been implemented as following: Cairo, Egypt, and Casablanca, Morocco. Tutors, coordinators and students showed great commitment and dedication. Thanks to the efforts of the local teams along with the great support of the international experts and coordinators from Barcelona, the two seminars were successful and very rewarding.
Now is the turn to the last International Assessment Seminar, to be held in Lebanon on July 6-10. We are sure that the Lebanese team will do great, just as their colleagues from Egypt and Morocco. At the moment everyone is busy fine-tuning the preparations. We will continue increasing the DTI Foundation international family, also through the EMPODaT project.
12th edition of the International Master in Donation and Transplantation of Organs, Tissues and Cells
The upcoming edition of the International Master in Donation and Transplantation of Organs, Tissues and Cells will start in October.
This will be the 12th edition and so far 114 participants from 33 different nationalities have taken this master’s degree, issued by the University of Barcelona.
The curriculum is based on the blended training methodology, which combines online and face-to-face modules. It also includes 6 weeks of tutored internship in an accredited center that will allow the participant to put into practice the competences acquired along the master program.
The registration period is open until September 30th and you may find here all the information.
Together we make a difference!
Within the twinning project "Strengthening the Transplant Agency of the Republic of Moldova and support in legal approximation in the area of quality and safety of substances of human origins, Component II: Strengthening of the staff capacity", TPM-DTI Foundation along with OCATT, Spain, Agence de Biomédecine, France, and the Transplant Agency, Republic of Moldova, designed, developed and implemented a training program aimed at meeting the training needs of the Moldavian health care professionals involved in organ donation, transplantation and tissue banking activities.
The two level educational initiative has been very successful. A total of 115 participants have participated in the different courses organized. Of them, 10 key persons with good digital competences joined the TPM online programs with very good results. The knowledge increased by the end of the training program with an average of 14, 87 %.
Further recommendations have been given to ensure the continuity and sustainability of the educational program.
Professional Training in Organ Procurement will be launched this autumn
Within the International Master in Donation and Transplantation of Organs, Tissues and Cells that starts in October, the Professional Training in Organ Procurement will be launched this autumn.
It represents the first module of the master program but it is also available for free-lancers. The program consists in online and face to face training. However, the two components can also be taken separately.
The state of the art training program employs a highly interactive methodology, with international reference experts, giving opportunity to continuous building of knowledge and best practice exchange. To learn more about the online program watch this video.
For those who would like to get specialized in organ procurement, there is more good news to come! Those who completed this training program or are about to join, have the great chance to undertake with TPM a traineeship in a reference center and complete thePostgraduate Program on organ procurement.
The registration period is open now! Deadline of early bird registration: September 15.
Do not hesitate to contact us for further information at infotpm@tpm.pcb.ub.es
The EMPODaT project visited Lebanon
From the 6th to the 10th of July 2015, as part of the EMPODaT project, we assist to the International Assessment Seminar that took place in Lebanon in both University of Balamand and the Lebanese American University. The program was very intense and thanks to the great cooperation of our European experts on Organ Donation and Transplantation, Juan Villar Gallardo and Patrick Von Samson, together with local coordinators and experts, all the students consolidated their knowledge in a great atmosphere.
Among other contents about Organ Donation and Transplantation, the students worked on several clinical cases and workshops on donor detection, brain death and donor management, the family approach, the organ recovery... Later, participants were able to present their studies to a jury of experts. Finally, for the dissemination of the project, several events were implemented: a networking and a mass media event.
We are very thankful for the welcoming we received as well as the great hospitality of our partners from Lebanon. We are now very much looking forward for the final meeting of EMPODaT, to measure all the outcome of the project.
Forty professionals take part in the first Intermadiate Training Course celebrated in Abu Dhabi.
On May 21st-23rd, the first Intermediate Training Course in Transplant Procurement Management took place at the facilities of Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi (CCAD) simulation center, with support from Zayed Charity Marathon and SEHA. Forty healthcare professionals attended the course.
Our delegation had the chance to visit the kidney transplant program at Sheikh Khalifa Medical City (SKMC), a SEHA institution and CCAD from Mubadala Healthcare, encountering an excellent setting to develop tissue and multi organ transplantation programs in addition to expanding the existing kidney transplantation at SKMC. We were also welcomed to the Spanish Embassy in Abu Dhabi. The ambassador, Mr. Jose Eugenio Salarich, showed great interests in endorsing future activities in the field of organ donation and transplantation development in the UAE.
We wish to extend our particular thanks to Dr. Ali Abdul kareem Al Obaidli, SEHA Chief Academic Affairs Officer, Dr. Tomislav Mihaljevic, Chief of Staff, CCAD and Dr Mona Alrukhaimi, Professor of Medicine at Dubai Medical College (UAE) for making it possible.
The On-line Course in Tissue Banking has finished with satisfactory results.
Last May 24, we have closed a new edition of the International On-line Course in Tissue Banking and Advanced Therapies. The faculty staff, consisting of 11 experts from 5 countries, and also the 40 participants from 20 countries, worked hard for the past two months the various topics of the program as well as their individual and group activities. The course was very rewarding and everyone enjoyed it.
Some experts and participants who have joined the online edition will continue in June with the Face to Face International Course in Tissue Banking and Advanced Therapies. We are looking forward to meeting you in Barcelona!
Working against organ trafficking
DTI Foundation attended at the 15th meeting of the European Committee (Partial Agreement) on Organ Transplantation (CD-P-TO) to present new projects initiativeswhich was held Santiago de Compostela, Spain, from 23-24 March 2015. This meeting brought together internationally-recognised experts to discuss topics such as the fight against organ trafficking, international cooperation, the development of ethical, quality and safety standards and future projects in the Council of Europe members states.
In this context, DTI Foundation representatives participated in the “Walk Against Organ Trafficking” held on Tuesday 24 March 2015 (afternoon) on the pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela (the Way of St James). Organised by the Council of Europe, the World Health Organization (WHO), the Spanish National Agency for Transplantation (ONT) and Swiss Transplant, this event aimed at pooling efforts to raise awareness of the fight against organ trafficking and promote voluntary organ donation, which helps to save and improve the lives of thousands of patients throughout the world.
In addition, DTI representatives also participated in the “High-level International Conference on the Fight against Trafficking in Human Organs” (25-26 March 2015) which invites governments to criminalize the illicit removal of human organs. During this conference, the Council of Europe Convention against Trafficking in Human Organswas signed by 14 Member States of the Council of Europe.
New edition of Transplant Coordination Manual
We are delighted to announce the new edition of the Transplant Coordination Manual is already available in print and e-book format. We welcome all our friends, healthcare professionals involved in organ donation and transplantation to purchase it. Contact us at infotpm@tpm.pcb.ub.es
This manual is intended to be a comprehensive handbook to address the problems and challenges that the organ procurement process encounters, from pragmatic solutions to the new trends in this field. It is based on the Transplant Procurement Management (TPM) training methodology that brings together highly qualified international experts to ensure best practice exchange across
the global community.
It embodies the state-of-the-art of the donation – transplantation process. It focuses on the major aspects, duties and professional responsibilities of the TPM: detection, identification and selection of donors, brain death diagnosis, donor management, organ viability, family approach for organ donation, donation after cardiac death, organ recovery organization & preservation
techniques, organ sharing and allocation criteria, living donation, tissue donation, ethics and legislation, as well as the establishment and development of organ donation systems.
The editors would like to acknowledge the support we have received from remarkable national and international authors with a well-known and longstanding expertise in every specific area of the donation-transplantation field, many of them as part of the permanent TPM faculty.
We hope that this manual will become an optimal resource for all the professionals devoted to the human organs, tissues and cells procurement, and help them to strengthen their competences and motivation to save human lives and / or increase its quality.
Intermediate TPM Training Courses in Cuba
In collaboration with the Ministerio de Sanidad (MINSAP) -Organización Nacional de Trasplantes of Cuba and under the direction of Dr. José Manuel García Buitrón, two Intermediate TPM Training Courses took place in the cities of La Habana and Santiago de Cuba. These activities belong to the counselling and collaboration support offered by DTI Foundation to enhancing the transplant activity in the country. To be highlighted Dr. García Buitrón, experienced transplant surgeon from A Coruña –Spain-, has been in the area for several months successfully supporting the organ procurement and transplant program. Special thanks are due to Dr. Antonio Enamorado Casanova, Coordinador Nacional de Trasplantes. Our best wishes for success and continuity with excellent results.
