Proving Small Acts of Kindness Can Make a Big Change
From April 4th to 8th DTI Foundation is taking part in the Little By Little Campaign, aimed at continuing fundraising for our project Save One Million Lives. During 5 days Global Giving will be matching 50% of all donations up to $50, meaning your donation will go further to help save one million lives.
The Little-by-Little campaign is a one week long campaign, the money raised goes to our project Save One Million Lives. Every year 1 million people are added to the list of those to receive an organ transplant. Sadly, less than 10% of the surgical procedures needed globally are performed.
This project empowers doctors and nurses from Africa, Asia, and South America by giving them critical knowledge needed to increase organ donations, train local medical experts as well as implement organ donation and transplantation programs.
To get involved, click here and help us in saving one million lives!
9th edition of the TPM Intermediate Course in Slovenia
A total of 30 healthcare professionals from Slovenia attended the 9th edition of the TPM Intermediate Training Course in Transplant Coordination. The course took place between March 28th and 31st. It was possible thanks to the collaboration between DTI Foundation and the Institute for transplantation of Organs and Tissues of the Republic – Slovenija-transplant.
DTI and local experts from Slovenia gave lectures and workshops on topics such as donor detection, brain death, donor management and family approach.
The main goal of the TPM intermediate online course was providing knowledge and skills on organ donation and motivate the healthcare professionals on the active detection to increase the donation and transplantation rates in the country.
Thank you to Slovenija-Transplant and all the participants for another amazing edition!
Hvala vam!
SEHA and DTI Foundation organize an event to promote Organ Donation in UAE in the framework of the EXPODUBAI 2020
Abu Dhabi Health Services (SEHA) and DTI Foundation in collaboration with the Spain Pavilion organized an awareness event to promote the organ donation in UAE. The event took place in the Spain Pavilion at the Expo 2020 Dubai. It drew many attendees in person as well online last Saturday.
The event provided a valuable opportunity to meet and exchange knowledge about organ donation and raise awareness in the UAE.
Since 2015, DTI Foundation's collaboration with SEHA and the UEA National Transplant committee has been beneficial, creating protocols and guidelines for the management of an organ donation system in UAE.
DTI Foundation is currently supporting SEHA for the consolidation of a deceased organ donation program with a SEUSA (Spanish, Europe, USA) program, to increase self-sufficiency in deceased organ donation. DTI Foundation looks forward to grow organ donation numbers in the future.
So far, more than 390 physicians and nurses have been trained in the organ donation and transplantation field. Since September 2021, the project has made possible the achievement of 38 utilized donors and 159 organs transplanted.
DTI is present at the 4YFN Congress 2022
DTI Foundation took part in the 4FYN Congress, one of the largest startups exhibitions for the mobile tech industry as well as distributive business models. Industry leaders, innovators, founders, and pioneers all showcased the best and latest while facilitating meaningful connections to other attendees.
The convention, which took place at MWC Barcelona Convention Center, takes place from February 28th to March 3rd, 2022. This is the 8th year of 4FYN, since 2014 the convention has grown to become the largest exhibition of mobile technology around the world. This past convention brought together hundreds of startups to the showroom floor to showcase their ideas and innovations to thousands of attendees, some being potential investors and customers, as well as experts.
DTI Foundation presented its training programs, consultancy options and innovative projects in hall 6 of the convention with Estephan Arredondo, DTI’s Tissue and Cells Directors. This presentation was made in Tech Barcelona’s Stand with the collaboration of Biocat.
Though the dates for next 4FYN Congress have not yet been released, we are eager and hopeful to be represented again at the convention.
Symposium about organ donation and transplantation in Japan - The Spanish Model
Dr. Marti Manyalich, along with other Spanish and Japanese experts, attended the international symposium “Organ donation and transplants, the potential of the Spanish model” held at the Instituto Cervantes in Tokyo. Dr. Manyalich and Beatriz Dominguez-Gil, from ONT, explained how the Spanish model of organ donation has had such great success internationally.
Presenting an explanation on how the Spanish model can be a great success in Japan. Already the Spanish model has shown promise in Japan. Dr. Manyalich explained that in 2006 Dr. Manabu Saito traveled to Barcelona to study a TPM Advanced Course in organ donation and transplantation. When returning to Japan, he spread the Spanish model to a group of islands in the south of Japan, where they saw an increase in donors.
Instituto Cervantes in Tokio counts with a partnership with the ONT to ensure a global spread of the Spanish Model. The symposium took place January 24th and 25th 2022.
End of II Curso Em Banco de Tecidos
The II Curso Em Banco de Tecidos finished yesterday after a 3-days module about tissue donation and transplantation. Including family approach when communicating bad news.
It was addressed to transplant coordinators with the objective to promote donation of tissues in the country.
This course was co-organised with the Ministério da Saúde -Instituto Portugués do Sange e da Transplantação (IPST). This was the second activity organised this year as DTI Foundation first did a course in Transplant Coordination.
Both courses have been taught in portuguese. Workshops and live streaming sessions were taught with a couple of Spanish-Portuguese experts.
Virtual Reality Workshop at the University of Barcelona
On October 29th, a virtual reality educational experience was put into practice with 3rd year medical degree students from the Clinical Campus of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of the University of Barcelona.
This activity was carried out within a subject coordinated by Dr. Clhoë Ballesté, Ricard Valero and David Paredes.
It is an experience through 360º videos and virtual reality glasses that he develops and an interview with the different members of a patient's family. It is an immersive learning activity that allows students to put themselves in the shoes of a doctor and live the experience as if it were real. In this way, they have been able to work in much more detail, within virtual reality, the communication of bad news aimed at the relatives of patients.
The activity has been very well received by students.
This virtual reality experience was created by the Donation and Transplantation Institute (DTI) Foundation in conjunction with Immersium Studios.
European Solidarity Corps
The European Solidarity Corps (ESC), known until 2016 as European Voluntary Service (EVS), is an international volunteering program by the European Commission for young people to go individually or in teams to another country, usually from one European country to another, to work for a non-profit cause. Since 2017, the program also offers opportunities for European youth to get engaged as volunteers in their own communities.
DTI has applied for this program. Thanks to this application, during the 2021 DTI has counted with the participation of two volunteers from Poland. They have participated in two different projects for 9 months. The main goal of the activity has been to support the development and implementation of organ and tissue training programs. The reception of the volunteers in the Foundation has allowed them to be trained both in the field of donation and transplantation and in the learning training and cooperation.
I-DTI Presentation in the XPatient Congress 2021
I-DTI consultancy platform was presented in the XPatient Congress 2021. Our expert Estephan Arredondo explained the project during an online presentation. Updated figures were shown as well as explaining the extention of the groups and questions created during the last year.
This application is focused on consultancy and messaging services. It has been created specifically to help healthcare professionals from around the world to answer any questions they may have related to donation and transplantation of organ, tissues and cells. Users can discuss different scenarios that they experience in their day-to-day lives.
I-DTI also allows too creat group chats and private chats with colleagues from around the world. They can upload files, even medical information, as there is an extreme policy of privacy that makes it safe to share. More features such as chat bot are under construction and will be available in the future.
The XPatient Congress was organised by Eurecat, TICSALUD and Hospital Clínic de Barcelona.
Download this platform here https://i-dti.com/.
Success during the ESOT Congress in Milan
The DTI Foundation’s representatives had a great pleasure of participating in the Congress of the European Society for Organ Transplantation (ESOT), which took place from August 29 to September 1 in Milan, Italy. It was the 20th edition of the event, which covered the full spectrum of organ transplantation activities. The Congress was an invaluable opportunity to meet and exchange knowledge and best practices with professionals who are working in the field and are involved in healthcareand research with an affiliation in transplantation, such as transplant surgeons, physicians, coordinators, nurses and dietitians, general surgeons and clinicians with an interest in transplantation, transplant scientist, nutrition and rehabilitation specialists, and transplant pharmacists.
During the Congress, the President of DTI Foundation, Martí Manyalich, has received the ESOT Honorary Membership in recognition of his persistent efforts in the field of organ donation and transplantation. His professionalism and the perseverance shown throughout his career confirm the well-deserved award.
Moreover, the DTI’s Director of International Cooperation & Development, Chloë Ballesté, has been elected as a Councillor in the ESOT Council Elections. Chloë Ballesté was also a speaker in the session called “Yes we can! How to start a DCD programme”, where she explored the ins and outs of donation after circulatory death programs and explained how to start one.
DTI’s Tissues and Cells Unit Director, Estephan Arredondo, was a speaker during a panel titled “Predictive models and tools in transplantation: Looking into the crystal ball”. He shared his expertise about I-DTI, a second opinion platform between healthcare professionals related to organ donation and transplantation. The ESOT 2021 has provided its attendees with the most recent information on emerging trends in organ transplantation, and the latest information to understand all the changes and updates, such as the role of infectious diseases in posttransplant, the advances in chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell immunotherapy in hematologic malignancies and the management of therapy-relaxed toxicities.
