DTI attends the 4YFN Congress
One of the world’s largest startup conventions is winding down with the conclusion of 4 Years From Now 2021 (4YFN 2021). The DTI Foundation took part in the event which featured keynote speakers from around the world and showcased some of the biggest and brightest names in different technological fields.
The convention, which ran from June 28 until July 1, was held at MWC Barcelona Convention Center. 4YFN was first held in 2014 and has grown to become the largest exhibition of mobile technology in the world. Hundreds of startups sign up for a spot on the showroom floor where they are given the opportunity to showcase and pitch their ideas and innovations to thousands of attendees including potential investors, customers, competitors, and experts or innovators.
DTI got a stand in hall 2 of the convention with ACCIÓ where the foundation showed off services and projects like I-DTI, robotics work, Bioprojects, and their innovations in telehealth. DTI also had a five-minute presentation on the final day of the convention where our projects and services were discussed.
The next 4YFN will be held from February 28 until March 3 in 2022, and DTI will hope to be represented again at the convention.
Stellar music and full crowd make Great Charity Concert a grand success
The charity concert held by the DTI Foundation and Fundació Nen Déu on June 28th was a massive success. Even with the COVID pandemic and seating restrictions inside the magnificent Palau de la Música Catalana, both organizations managed to fill almost all of the available sits for the event.
Performing at the concert were the Escolania de Montserrat, and the Orquestra Simfònica del Vallès with soloists from both choirs. Conducting the group was Xavier Puig while Álvaro Carnicero accompanied on the organ. The Orquestra Simfònica del Vallès first performed Concert in B flat major by Georg Händel before the choral groups joined for the performances of Anselm Viola’s Magníficat and Joseph Haydn’s Missa in honorem B.V.M. in E flat major. The performance captured the crowd’s attention for over an hour and drew a standing ovation at its conclusion.
The Charity Concert was initially scheduled for 2020, but the COVID-19 pandemic forced the event to be delayed. The partnership of DTI and Nen Déu Fundació was intended to produce an event where audience members could not only appreciate great music, but also learn more and become more aware the missions of both organizations. The messages of raising awareness about organ donation and transplantation from DTI and advocating for social inclusion of people with learning disabilities from Fundació Nen Déu. DTI is proud to have partnered with Fundació Nen Déu and is appreciative of their help and support for this event.
Our hope is that for those in attendance, this concert serves as a starting point for further training to healthcare professionals in countries where donation has not yet been fully established in their system. Spreading awareness about our objectives requires the help and participation of the public, and it is through events and fundraisers like this concert that we can best achieve that mission.
With vaccination rates increasing and some pandemic restrictions starting to ease up, DTI hopes to finally return to hosting more events like this. If there is to continue to be progress in this area, we will need your help to make each occasion just as successful, entertaining, and informative as this one. Thank you to all who attended, and we hope to see you again at another event.
Closing ceremony of the Master D&T (17th edition)
On June 18th took place the closing ceremony of the International Master in Donation and Transplantation of Organs, Tissues and Cells and the Master in Clinical Investigation (Donation and Transplantation track) both issued by the University of Barcelona (UB). This year we counted with the participation of Dr. Roberto Cambariere and Dr. Rafael Badenes as main speakers, as well as Dr. Marta Farrero and Dr. Josep Maria Lloveras as representatives of the Catalan Transplantation Society.
In the 2020-21 edition there has been 40 master participants, 21 of whom have defended their final master dissertation on the 17th of June, with excellent results and positive feedbacks from the jury made up of University of Barcelona professors.
The International Master in Donation and Transplantation of Organs, Tissues and Cells is a 60 ECTS specific master of the UB that offers 4 different pathways. Each pathway includes 3 modules, an internship and a final master dissertation. The master is fully online and there is an option to complement it with a face to face internship in any of our associated centers in Spain, Europe or USA.
Each module covers a wide range of topics delivered through the use of the latest technologies. One of the new pedagogical innovations that our participants have enjoyed in this edition is the immersive learning experience during the online internship, with a virtual hospital visit that includes the best practices in the donation and transplantation field.
This program also promotes the building of a network of healthcare professionals including participants, experts leading the live lectures and the international organizations involved in the program, so that they can all benefit from future collaborations and life-long learning activities and community building. The 18th online edition of the Master program is set to start this October 2021 and registration is already open.
For those professionals who are interested in doing a PhD afterwards, we also offer the possibility of pursuing the official master degree of the University of Barcelona: Master in Clinical Investigation, Donation and Transplantation track (60 ECTS). The main aim of the program is to provide graduates in the biomedical and health areas with the necessary research skills to access to a PhD program in any EU country. The Master approach aims to improve all the competences related to research methodology, from the clinical context of each of the involved specialties.
Congratulations to all graduated participants! DTI Foundation and the University of Barcelona are looking forward to welcoming future participants to any of the master programs.
End of the International TPM Advanced Training Course (Online)
The 26th edition of the TPM Advanced International Training Course in Transplant Procurement Management ended on Friday, June 11. The course, which started on May 25, gets enrollees involved with organ and tissue donation and transplantation at an international level. This edition of the program featured 54 participants from 17 countries.
The goal of the training is to give donation and transplantation experts a space to not just learn and expand their knowledge, but also network and learn from other experts around the world. Innovative ideas on donation and transplantation gave participants information that will allow them to implement processes that can lead to better results. The online course featured an international cadre of faculty who had extensive backgrounds and expertise in all areas of the transplantation and donation.
The training involved nine live sessions over the course of three. The meetings involved organized lectures and small group activities. Participants were given individual personalized feedback from the faculty throughout the process during lectures, simulations, and discussions. It also included Virtual Reality activities to practice some aspects of donation as well as virtual games to ensure teamwork and create a network between every participant.
DTI is looking forward to continuing to inform the world about the latest techniques and discoveries in organ and tissue donation and transplantation, and we hope to continue to see strong enrollment for our next edition of the advanced training. We are looking forward to starting the 27th edition of the course.
DTI Foundation celebrates National Donor Day in Spain
DTI Foundation is excited to celebrate National Donor Day today in Spain and hope you will celebrate it with us. As the country with the highest organ donation rate in the world, Spain has been a pioneer in this medicinal field and continues to make improvements that increase quality of life.
In 2019, Spain had 2302 deceased organ donors which accounted for 5,087 organs donated. Those numbers meant there were 49 deceased organ donors per million population. The next highest rate belonged to the United States of America who had a rate of 36.88 per million population.
The international celebration of donor day is on February 14, and you can get involved easily with small steps like donating blood or raising awareness across your hospital or facility about the day and educating your colleagues on information about organ donation and transplantation. The spread of knowledge and training about organ donation and transplantation continues to be an evolving process, but improvements to training and the dissemination of information in recent years has made the process more accessible throughout the world.
DTI Foundation has become one of the international leaders in this practice, and through the work of the foundation and the TPM educational program, we have managed to educate and train over 17,000 professionals in 108 countries since 1991. Our goal is to continue furthering knowledge and training about these processes, and we hope to continue to foster environments in countries that will increase donor rates around the world through safe and empathetic methods.
Transplant Procurement Management Manual
DTI Foundation and its educational branch TPM published last year the 4th edition of the Transplant Procurement Management Manual (TPM Manual). As in Spain we celebrate the National Book Day and Sant Jordi on the 23rd of April we wanted everyone to know more about it.
TPM was launched in 1991 under the auspice of the “Organización Nacional de Transplantes” (ONT) and the “Universitat de Barcelona” (UB). Since then, we have been teaching healthcare professionals through different courses to allow them to know more about organ donation and transplantation. This manual is a key point to those courses. It has a wide range of knowledge created by our team of international experts to allow participants and alumni to keep the information in a manual which they can reach whenever they have doubts or questions about the donation or transplantation process.
The TPM Manual is only a teaching resource we offer our students when they register to a TPM course. It has been printed in hard cover but we also offer them the e-book edition.
Today, more than 15.000 people have completed TPM courses and are helping hospitals, countries and societies in the organ donation and transplantation process. Our aim is to help hospitals and countries to increase their donation rates.
DTI-CNT Online Training in Organ Donation
DTI Foundation and Istituto Superiore di Sanità – Centro Nazionale Trapianti (ISS-CNT) continue their long-lasting collaboration, which started in 1999. Along these 22 years, 3825 participants have been trained in 98 courses of different modalities.
During the current year, a Self-Study Online Course in Organ Donation and 3 live sessions titled Organ Donation Update in Covid-19 Times have been developed.
The self-study course lasted one month (11th January-22nd February) and aimed at introducing the participants into the field of deceased and living organ donation. The theoretical content was divided in 10 topics (Donor Detection System, Brain Death Diagnosis, Donor Management, Family Approach, Organ Recovery and Preservation, Organ Allocation Criteria, controlled and uncontrolled Donation after Circulatory Death) and complemented with self-assessing activities.
UEMS-EACCME© certification was provided.
The live sessions were distributed in 3 days (1st-3rd March) with the main aim to provide an update on how much the pandemic has affected donation and transplantation activities and how important and necessary it is to continue updating and training healthcare professionals from this field in this context. The faculty included experts from both countries, Italy and Spain.
A total of 67 participants completed the program and were certified also with CME Italian credits.
2nd KSA Intermediate Online Training Course
The second TPM course for participants from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia took place from the 8th to the 10th of March, 2021, in collaboration with the Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation (SCOT).
Around 50 health professionals (ICU doctors, nurses and Transplant Coordinators) from all regions of the KSA were trained by an international group of experts with vast experience both in organ donation and training:
Dr. Francesco Procaccio, consultant at Italian National Transplant Organization (CNT); Dr. José Luis Escalante, Director of Transplant Program at University Hospital Gregorio Marañón from Madrid (Spain); Dr. Željka Gavranović, Anesthesiology and Critical Care specialist and transplant coordinator at University Hospital Centre “Sestre Milosrdnice” from Zagreb (Croatia); Dr. Rafael Badenes, Anesthesiology and Critical Care specilaist at University Hopsital Clinic of Valencia (Spain); Mr. Luc Colenbie, transplant coordinator and Belgian delegate in the European committee on organ transplantation; and Dr. Martí Manyalich, Assessor on Transplantation, Medical Direction at Univeristy Hospital Clinic of Barcelona (Spain).
The results and comments from the evaluation report are very positive, with an overall course assessment of 4.7 (from a scale of 1 to 5).
We are thankful to the international and local faculty, as well as to the organizing team who was involved and made the course a success!
First TPM Advanced course (Spanish edition) in Online Modality
The 31st edition of the “Curso Superior Internacional en Donación y Trasplante de Órganos y Tejidos” has been carried out in virtual modality from the 3rd to the 25th of February 2021.
37 participants from Spain and 9 from Latin-American countries, including those participating in the Master Alianza (ONT), have shared 8 interactive live sessions every Wednesday and Thursday of the month of February.
This traditionally face-to-face course, in which participation, teamwork and hands-on simulation is always boosted, has been adapted to the virtual modality applying the latest innovations in educational material.
The use of interactives video games, clinical broadcasted live simulations and an immersive experience with virtual reality, have been the alternative to the face-to-face experience with positive results according to participants comments about the course development.
The course has been partially subsidized by the Spanish Ministry of Health through the National Transplant Organization-ONT and also supported by the Catalan Transplant Organization-OCATT.
Our special thanks to all the faculty and staff for making it possible.
IRODaT - 2020 preliminary numbers in organ donation and transplantation
IRODaT official reporters team, has brought together the 2020 international preliminary numbers in organ donation and transplantation.
The mission of the International Registry in Organ Donation and Transplantation (IRODaT) is to support the healthcare professionals, transplant specialist, researchers and general community to have access to verified and validated information.
We invite you to visit IRODaT website www.irodat.org, where you will find
information from other countries and news regarding international organ
donation and transplantation.
