DTI Foundation in the TTS 2020 Congress
During September 13th to 16th, DTI Foundation joined the first virtual edition of The Transplantation Society-TTS congress.
Our team was really busy during this event presenting abstracts, posters and attending virtual conferences lively from all over the world. Here are the main activities we were involved those days.
Co-organizing with TTS the Networking sessions:
- “Deceased Organ Donation in COVID Times”; this session count with the participation of key organ donation and transplant leaders worldwide and at the same time it was possible to present the IDOTCOVID database, the International Database on Organ Donation and Transplantation-COVID19 that will assist transplant clinicians with their medical decisions on transplant patients covid+.
- The MENA, Middle East and North of Africa session gathered 121 participants from more than 10 countries of the area. It was explained what the current situation of donation in these countries is and what are the most important points to develop the donation. The conclusion is that as this region will grow a lot in the future (more than 500 million people) and will have a high demand for organs for transplantation, it is very important to develop systems that would handle this situation.
- “New technologies applied to organ donation”, the objective was to offer to the organ donation and transplant network an up-to-date session regarding how new technologies could assist their daily work. Twenty institutions from around the world participated in the session as panellists. The following topics were covered during the networking session: telemedicine platforms, management software. Database & Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and novelties in machines perfusions.
One of these new technologies is the electronic consultancy platform I-DTI, an online tool that allows knowledge exchange between healthcare professionals related to organ donation and transplantation. It was launched internationally at the congress and the preliminary results of implementation of the i-DTI beta version were presented during the Education abstract session. I-DTI is offering a free access until December 2020 to support to the health care professionals during the COVID-19 global situation. More info: https://www.i-dti.com/
More abstracts were presented such as the European Project ODISSeA (Organ Donation Innovative Strategies for Southeast Asia) as well as the work done regarding the ISO Quality Certification for a Hospital-Based Organ Procurement Unit-The United Arab Emirates Experience, and Implementation Results of the First Hospital-Based Organ Procurement Unit in Kerala (India).
Sisters despite pandemics: Two TTS-ISN projects going on virtually
We miss our regular picture in front of the ISN booth at the congress but we are still with enthusiastic and hard working with our partners in Philippines and Sri Lanka.
The Sister program level A with Philippines, Southern Philippines Medical Center, is going on despite COVID pandemics, reinforcing knowledge and expertise exchange through I-DTI platform and online courses in a virtual way. Webinars, courses and clinical cases debates have been some of our activities, but we are looking forward to restart professional exchanges!
With Sri Lanka, Sri Jayawardenapura General Hospital’s, we have started level C to reinforce the current programs of kidney transplant and organ procurement but also to contribute on the implementation of pancreas transplant program. In this first stage COVID hasn’t interfere too much but we are looking forward to meeting both teams soon!
A new 100% online edition for our historical International Master’s degree on donation and transplantation of organs, tissues and cells.
The new version that allows anyone, anywhere to pursue our University of Barcelona Master’s degree has been presented in the congress. Our wish is to break borders and pandemics with innovative and immersive experiences. We have been working hard on it and hope that the new participants this year will enjoy it as much as we have done it designing it! We will keep you updated!
DTI Challenge Game: using gamification in the TTS congress to learn and play
DTI foundation, together with Compettia/Atririvity Co., have designed an App that allows participants to challenge each other through organ procurement, transplantation and COVID questions and was highly interactive during the congress. Participants can train, learning and having fun at the same time!
The winner has been Dr. Manuel Enrique Núñez Duarte from Colombia and he has won an online course. CONGRATULATIONS!
We have enjoyed with this experience and we are working on finding the way to make you enjoy it too!
DTI Challenge Game available at TTS Virtual Congress 2020
If you are attending the TTS Virtual congress 2020, we invite you to visit our Industry Corner space and start playing the DTI Challenge Game, a new, educational competition about organ donation and transplantation.
It will give you the opportunity to test your knowledge by challenging other TTS congress attendees in simple, double, triple and even in group challenges.
This app will not only be a fun way to play with your colleagues but also it will be useful for us in order to evaluate which are the trending topics of the Organ Donation and Transplantation field among the participants.
The more you play the more chances you have to enter into the raffle to win free access to one of our online courses!
The game will start on the 13th of September at 8am CEST and will be open until the 16th of September at 9pm CEST. Participants will have 24 more hours to complete their challenges.
The Atrivity app is available at Google Play, App Store & AppInChina. Download it and register here to play!
DTI will be represented at TTS 2020 Virtual Congress_September 13-16
DTI Foundation will attend the 28th International Congress of The Transplantation Society 2020 virtual this year!
Visit us at the Industry Corner of the Platform and see what's new in the field of Organ Donation and Transplantation:
Check out DTI Online Training Offer
Play a Quiz Game to test your knowledge on organ donation and transplantation and win free access to one of our online courses!
Discover i-DTI, an innovative telemedicine platform
Register and consult our Donation Databases
Chat with us during the Congress on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/4461853655
Follow our presentations:
| ORAL ABSTRACTS SESSIONS | ||
| i-DTI: An electronic consultancy platform between professionals in the field of organ donation and transplantation | Estephan Arredondo/Jordi Colomer | Wednesday, 16 September 2020, 16:30 - 17:15h (Frankfurt time) Room: Channel 8 |
| Organ Donation Innovative Strategies for Southeast Asia: ODISSeA | Maria Paula Gómez | Wednesday, 16 September 2020, 9:30 - 10:15h (Frankfurt time) Room: Chanel 9 |
| EUDONORGAN – Innovative European project training and social awareness for increasing organ donation | Martí Manyalich | Wednesday, 16 September 2020, 9:30 - 10:15h (Frankfurt time) Room: Chanel 9 |
| NETWORKING SESSIONS | ||
| Virtual Networking Room: MENA region challenges and opportunities for organ donation and transplantation | Maria Paula Gómez | Monday, 14 September 2020, 10:15 - 12:00 Room: Networking 2 |
| Virtual Networking Room: New Technologies Applied to Organ Donation | Estephan Arredondo | Wednesday, 16 September, 08:00 - 10:00 Room: Networking 1 |
| Virtual NetworkingRoom: Organ Donation and Transplantation in Covid Times - Opportunities to Learn after the First Wave | Maria Paula Gómez | Tuesday, 15 September 2020, 08:00 - 10:00h (Frankfurt time) Room: Networking 1 |
Consultancy platform between health care professionals
I-DTI online consultancy platform allows knowledge exchange between healthcare professionals for the purpose of helping solve doubtful donation scenarios and therefore increase the donor pool.
Focused on consultancy and messaging services and discuss specific scenarios with a team of recognized experts, I-DTI allows users to create and share knowledge in chat groups, upload files and discuss specific scenarios with a team of recognized experts.
I-DTI is offering a free trial until September to help during the COVID-19 global situation.
Go to I-DTI’s website to learn more and sign up for free I-DTI experience!
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4 Webinar series as part of ISN-TTS Sister Transplant Centre Program
Since 2016, the South Philippines Medical Center (SPMSC) got into engagement with the University of Barcelona (UB), Hospital Clinic of Barcelona (HCB), DTI foundation, and more recently, Fundació Puigvert, in the ISN-TTS Sister Transplant Centers Program; a joint partnership facilitated by International Society of Nephrology (ISN) and The Transplantation Society (TTS) to develop existing Kidney Transplant programs in emerging countries. Since then, several activities have been organized to promote knowledge and experience exchange between healthcare and educational institutions from Davao (Philippines) and Barcelona (Spain) regarding donation and transplantation.
Considering the current pandemic crisis, the team involved in the program decided to adapt the next initiatives to prioritize COVID-19 outbreak as an immediate concern to the international heathcare system and professionals.
Therefore, between June 11th and July 3rd a series of 4 Webinars have been organized, each of them focused on a current topic related to COVID-19, in order to share useful information between experts from our centers: Dr Josep Maria Miró, Dr Joan Ramon Badia, Mrs Carme Hernández, Dr José Jesús Broseta, Dr David Paredes and Dr Fritz Diekmann from Hospital Clinic of Barcelona and University of Barcelona; Dr Leopoldo Vega, Dr Maria Elinore Alba-Concha, Dr Ricardo B. Audan and Dr Maria Theresa Bad-ang from Southern Philippines Medical Center; Dr Anna Vila from Fundació Puigvert and Dr Chloë Ballesté and Dr Entela Kondi from DTI Foundation.
The webinar series were open and disseminated to the large public, although specifically targeted for the Southern Philippines Medical Center’s healthcare professionals, reaching a total of 494 attendees.
Eurofins Foundation collaborates with DTI
Eurofins Foundation supports DTI’s project “Save One Million Lives”. Since 2018, this project aims to help in the creation of the deceased organ donation program in developing countries, where patients with chronic terminal illnesses are a main concern.
Thanks to Eurofins Foundation, we will be able to perform the situational diagnosis and develop a plan proposal in two Indian regions. The actions will be as follows:
1. Situational diagnosis in terms of organ donation and transplantation. Only through an accurate diagnosis it will be possible to design a plan proposal adjusted to the area. This study aims at identifying organizational, structural, and educational needs and foreseeing solutions that can be implemented both in the short and in long term.
2. Proposal development: 3-year plan to build the deceased organ donation program in the study region, which will be focused on improving measures for in-hospital organ procurement structure.
Developing this kind of program will increase the transplant rates, which means that we will give a lot of people in the waiting list a second chance in life.
IDOTCOVID International Database on Organ Donation and Transplantation COVID-19
We are glad to share the latest initiative related to the COVID-19 pandemic situation! Thanks to our global network of collaborators we have created the IDOTCOVID registry (International Database on Organ Donation and Transplantation COVID-19) on behalf of the DTI Foundation, IDIBAPS from Hospital Clinic of Barcelona and IRODAT registry.
The IDOTCOVID is an open-access and available in real time to all collaborating centres to provide a global perspective towards the influence of COVID-19 on donation activity and transplant outcomes.
The present database tries to collect the demographic, clinical, analytical and therapeutic data of Solid Organ Transplant (SOT) recipients with COVID-19 
to provide reliable information, and more importantly, a guide for the management of this population.
A major goal of the IDOTCOVID is the machine learning algorithm to assist the decision making process regarding the treatment alternatives and expected outcomes according to the different approaches worldwide.
The platform is available now, find more information at https://www.idotcovid.org/
If you are not registered yet, send an email to info@idotcovid.org and join us to benefit from this initiative!
DTI Foundation presents an innovative project: I-DTI
Suitable training of healthcare professional is a key aspect to increase the organ donation and transplantation rates. I-DTI aims to implement an online consultancy platform that will allow knowledge exchange between healthcare professionals for the purpose of helping solve doubtful donation scenarios and therefore increase the donor pool.
I-DTI has an important value in supporting programs for developing countries with limited access to knowledge.
Focused on consultancy and messaging services and discuss specific scenarios with a team of recognized experts, I-DTI allows users to create and share knowledge in chat groups, upload files and discuss specific scenarios with a team of recognized experts.
More features such as chat bot are under construction and will be available in the future. Also, I-DTI is offering a free trial until September to help during the COVID-19 global situation.
Go to I-DTI’s website to learn more and sign up for free I-DTI experience!
Annual activity report 2019
We are glad to present you the Annual Report of DTI Foundation for 2019.
To know more about our activity (Educational programs; Congresses attendance; DTI Social; European and other International Projects..) you can take a look here!
https://issuu.com/dtifoundation/docs/dti_2021_eng_issuu
Covid-19 Webinar Series
In regard to the ongoing global situation around the COVID-19 virus, we have created a series of webinars under the title of: Organ donation and transplantation in the current Covid-19 situation. These seminars are addressing important topics such as donor detection, donation, multi-organ transplantation, patient monitoring, tissue donation, and more during the COVID-19 circumstances at this moment. For the commodity and availability of viewers from other regions of the world, the webinars are scheduled at European noon time.
The introductory Series I chapter happened this April 15th, with the main topics revolving around recommendations of the COVID-19 situation and the current Italian situation with transplant coordination experience. It had the participation of Dr. Marian Irazabal - MD, Intensive Care Medicine in Hospital General de Catalunya and Hospital Parc Taulí, Transplant Coordinator & DTI collaborator, Dr. Marco Sacchi - MD, Neurological Intensive Care Medicine in Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milano & Transplant Coordinator and the i-DTI Presentation tool for real time knowledge exchange between health care professionals related to organ and tissues donation and transplantation .
The next series of webinars will continue to have experts - from Spain, Italy, China, USA, Iran, Brazil and other countries - sharing their experiences, new tools to improve practices, conditions to accept donors or to perform transplants during this time, and how they have been affected by the virus. The Covid-19 webinar series is now available on DTI Community’s Academic Library section and on the COVID-19 section on the main menu as well; all registered members can access it. Stay tuned to receive more updates and news about the upcoming Series II webinar in organ donation.