Four new people transplanted in Trinidad and Tobago: a project that gets consolidated
Since 2010, the DTI Foundation is developing in Trinidad and Tobago a project to implement, develope and consolidate the system of organ donation and transplantation in this Caribbean country. The project, which benefits the National Organ Transplant Unit (under the Trinidad and Tobago Ministry of Health) has being sponsored, from its beginnings, by Fundación Repsol.
This April, the medical and technical team that coordinates the program at Trinity has given us the good news that they have successfully made four new kidney transplants, proceeding from two donors. We greet this success, which is a reward for work well done by professionals in the country, and that will lead to improve the quality of life of transplanted people and of society in general.
Later this month, DTI´s members will visit Trinidad and Tobago, where we will present the achieved results from the beginning of the project.
DTI Foundation participates on a film festival about health rights
DTI Foundation has been invited to participate in the 9th edition of the film festival “Salut, Drets, Acció”, next May 14th in Barcelona. Our Director of Development and International Cooperation, Chloë Ballesté, will participate in the debate around the film“Tales from the Organ Trade”. The main central discussion will be how organ trafficking rises social differences. With this invitation, the organizers of the festival recognize our job in the International Cooperation field to introduce an efficient organ donation and transplantation system around the world. “Tales from the Organ Trade” is a descent into the shadowy world of black-market organ trafficking, written and directed by Ric Esther Bienstock and narrated by the film director David Cronenberg.
The film festival “Salut, Drets, Acció” is been promoted by Farma Mundi and Medicus Mundi Catalunya and will project 4 movies between the 7th and the 28th May about the health rights around the world. The film projection and the following debate will be next14th May (7:30 pm) in Cinema Girona (Barcelona).
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TPM Educational Offer allows you to choose different itineraries which begin with any of the programs and end up with a masters degree by following an internship and other training programs.
The TPM educational offer is designed in a modular learning structure which facilitates flexible and individual life long training. Programs are focused on 4 main topics related to organ and tissue procurement and transplantation: Organ Procurement, Organ Transplantation, Tissue Banking and Advanced Therapies and Procurement and Transplantation Management. Depending on the length and characteristics, they follow the face-to-face, online or blended methodology.
DTI Foundation Activities 2014
We are delighted to share our DTI Foundation Annual Report of Activities 2014. In this report, you will find the actions and updates that the Foundation has carried out over 2014: Training of health care professionals in Barcelona and in various countries around the world, the creation of a new online platform for the online training modality and the implementation of the first edition of the self-training online course on Organ Donation and Transplantation.
The report also includes the International Cooperation projects we are developing, theEuropean co-financed projects we are carrying on and the conferences and collaborations in which DTI Foundation has intervened.
In this Annual Report, we would like to emphasize the involvement of all staff and partners of DTI Foundation and their dedication and work in the mission of saving livesthrough transplantation
You can read the Annual Report 2014 in this link: http://issuu.com/dtifoundation
Working against organ trafficking
DTI Foundation has participated recently in the 9th edition of the film festival “Salut, Drets, Acció”, promoted by the NGO Farma Mundi and Medicus Mundi Catalunya. Our Director of Development and International Cooperation, Chloë Ballesté, took part in the debate around the film “Tales from the Organ Trade”, a documentary that is a descent into the shadowy world of black-market organ trafficking, written and directed by Ric Esther Bienstock and narrated by the film director David Cronenberg.
In relation to this debate, Chloë Ballesté has participated also in a program of the public Spanish television, “Para Todos La 2”. You can watch the program online. DTI ´s Director of Development and International Cooperation was also interviewed about organ trafficking in the Catalan newspaper “Ara”. We will offer you also this link as soon as the interview be published.
New training pathways for TPM Master degree
The TPM educational offer has been designed to facilitate any TPM student to follow an academic curriculum that may end up with the Master degree.
We have re-designed the academic curriculum of the International Master in Donation and Transplantation of Organs, Tissues and Cells, which offers you the possibility to choose one of four different pathways according to your profile and academic interest:
- The student decides whether to enroll in the complete Master program or just one or more of our four blended modules separately.
- To achieve the Master degree, the student should have completed at least three of the four modules plus a six week internship and a final Master dissertation.
For more information about the different modules, educational methodology, etc, please visit www.tpm-master.org
