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01 PRESIDENT’S LETTERDr. Martí Manyalich

President of TPM-DTI [email protected]

The current mission of TPM-DTI Foundation is

to save lives all around the world through organ

transplantation. Just 10% of the needs regard-

ing organ donation are covered, while those not

covered are over a million cases per year. The

two hands on the cover offering a warm and

alive heart portray our mission.

We have made efforts to transmit the knowledge

and good practices to improve the quality and

number of donations all around the world. As

such, we have brought to our Barcelona head-

quarters more than 30 professionals on organ

and tissue donation, as well as transplant ex-

perts from around the world to develop their

skills, and they have returned to their countries

fully energized and with new ideas to develop

the TPM organ donation programs.

Some of our experts have had the opportunity to

travel to Latin America, like Trinidad and Toba-

go, Ecuador, Colombia, Cuba, etc.; to European

countries such as Italy, Portugal, Croatia, Slove-

nia, Hungary and Moldova; to African regions

such as Egypt, Libya and Morocco; to Middle

East and Asian Countries, such as Kuwait, Iran

and China (which has been highly represented

through the trips done to Hangzhou, Kunming,

Nanning, Pekin…). We have had the opportu-

nity to share experiences and professionalism

through those trips as well as learn from differ-

ent cultures and countries where organ dona-

tion programs are growing.

The TPM staff, professionals and experts are

united in its shared passion of helping to save

lives through organ and tissue donation, and we

are grateful to see the enthusiasm and commit-

ment of all our friends, concerned about organ

donation around the world. To conclude this

letter, we would like to show gratitude to the in-

stitutions, people involved and organizations that

help us make our work possible. We will together

keep moving forward in collaboration.

‘JUST 10% OF THE WORLD NEEDS ARE COVERED, WHILE THOSE NOT COVERED ARE OVER A

MILLON CASES PER YEAR’

‘ALL THE STAFF AND PARTNERS ARE UNITED IN ITS SHARED PASSION OF HELPING

TO SAVE LIVES’

SUMMARY01 LETTER OF THE PRESIDENT

02 WHAT HAVE WE DONE? 02.1 Training in Barcelona

02.2 Training on site

02.3 Blended and Online Training

03 INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION - TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

04 EUROPEAN PROJECTS

04.1 EMPODaT

04.2 Twinning Project with Moldova

05 CONGRESSES

06 OTHER COLLABORATIONS 07 TPM-DTI AROUND THE WORLD

TPM-DTI FOUNDATIONParc Científic de Barcelona

C/ Baldiri Reixac, 4-8Torre I Planta 8

08028 Barcelona (Spain)

http://[email protected]

Telephone: +34 934 031 903

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02 WHAT HAVE WE DONE?

During 2014 TPM-DTI carried out the implementation of fifteen face to face courses, as well as blended and online courses that

are part of the curriculum of the International Master in Donation of Organs, Tissues and Cells for Transplantation. This year,

as a new element, we implemented the first edition of the self-training online course on Operational Management in Organ

Donation and Transplantation. Besides that, two new delegations in Italy and Croatia have been established. Those two coun-

tries are characterized by a long experience related to organ donation and have strongly consolidated donation systems as well as

a long track record on training.

The combined program in training and diagnostics had continued in Colombia for the third consecutive year and is being estab-

lished in China for the first time. For the online training modality, an online platform has been created, which has brought better

facilities and abilities to the learning procedure.

Regarding International Cooperation projects, TPD-DTI foundation keeps implementing the basis of a national donation system

in Trinidad & Tobago.


02.1 TRAINING COURSES IN BARCELONAXXIV CURSO SUPERIOR INTERNACIONAL EN COORDINACIÓN DE TRASPLANTES

The Spanish edition of the Advanced TPM course took place from the 18th to the 21st of February in Vilar Rural Sant Hilari Sacalm. 47 students en-rolled in the course from 9 different countries and 20 professors from highly recognized institutions. The opening session was located at Parc Científic de Barcelona, and the course has integrated the trending topic on controlled and non-controlled donation af-ter circulatory death.

20th ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL TRAINING COURSE IN TRANSPLANT IN TRANSPLANT PROCUREMENT MANAGEMENT

The course took place between the 10th and the 14th of Novem-ber in 2014 in Vilar Rural Sant Hilari Sacalm. 44 students from 19 different countries and 22 professors joined the course.

It should be highlighted that one Chinese delegation attend-ed this course: 4 doctors from intensive medicine, 2 trans-plant surgeons and two agents from the Chinese National Organization CLTR. After the course, the delegation visited the OCATT, some hospitals in Barcelona and the DTI Foun-dation.


02.2 ON-SITE TRAINING

COLOMBIA - COMBI BOGOTÁThe INS (National Institute of Health), coordinator of the National Transplant and Donation Network in Colombia, and in collaboration with DTI Foundation within a 5 years collaboration project, has arranged the third round of visits to public and private hospitals in April 2014. Besides that, the Self-Study Online Course on Operational Management in Organ Donation and Transplantation was carried out with 256 students from all the Colombian regions.

CHINA - COMBI KUNMINGA TPM Intermediate Training Course took place on the 4th and 5th of December 2014 to train 40 health professionals in Kunming. A DTI group of experts visited hospitals of reference from KHOPO (Kun-ming Organ Procurement Organization) with the aim to get in contact with the practices on Donation and Transplantation. Once the visits and course were con-cluded, the team had a meeting with the organization to evaluate the current situation and plan future ac-tivities.

ITALYA new delegation model was implemented through a collaboration agreement with Centro Nazionale di Trapianti (CNT). This new model includes the imple-mentation of the courses and the cession of teaching contents in Italian. Two advanced courses were car-ried out in November and December.

PORTUGALThe Instituto Português do Sangue e da Trasplantaçao (IPTS), who has shown an ongoing interest on TPM training activities, organized an advanced TPM train-ing course. It was adjusted to the country’s needs and counted with the support of Portuguese professionals already familiarized with the TPM training model.

IRANTwo courses addressed to different audiences were carried out in August. One of them was addressed to transplant coordinators soon or already on duty and the second one was addressed to experienced coordi-nators with the aim of developing their management and leadership skills.

USADuring the 3rd Transplant Donation Global Lead-ership Symposium, DTI was responsible to plan and design the educational program, the didactics and methodology application as well as contribute on pro-fessional experts. In addition, DTI collaborated on the assignation of scholarships aimed to key members from the international community.

EGYPTWe realized the 2nd Intermediate Training Course in Transplant Procurement Management during the 13th and 15th of June in Aswan (Egypt) within the participation of 35 students.

CROATIAThe Intermediate Training course in Transplant Coordination was celebrated between the 8th and 10th of October within the collaboration agreement with Donor Transplant Network and the Health Min-istry of Croatia in Zagreb (Croatia).


SLOVENIAWe realized the 3rd Intermediate Training Course in Transplant Coordination during the 19th and 21st of November in Mozirjie ((Ljubljana), as part of the 3 years agreement with Slovenia-Transplant signed on 2012.

HUNGARYWithin the Congress framework Donation after Cir-culatory Death: Controlled & Uncontrolled proce-dures. 2014 European Organ Donation Congress, 25th EDCTO a section of ESOT, a TPM Seminar that counted with 15 participants was carried out on the 2nd of October. Both practical sessions and theoreti-cal content were positively valuated.

What’s going on in the world?

• Over 1 million trasplants are needed around the world

• 100,000 transplants are done per year, yet 10% of the world’s needs are actually cov-ered.

• In Europe, just 48% of the needed trans-plants are being carried out.

• Spain beats records and keeps being world leader in 2014: 36 donors per mil-lion population.


02.3 ONLINE AND BLENDED TRAINING

INTERNATIONAL MASTER IN DO-NATION OF ORGANS, TISSUES AND CELLS FOR TRANSPLANTATION

The program has reached its 10th edition. The training is composed of different modules: Professional Training in Organ Donation, Training for Trainers, Lead-ership and Quality Management, Tissue Banking and Advanced Therapies. The educational methodology is blended, which combines virtual training through the online TPM platform and on the other hand, some face to face parts that take place at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Barcelona (UB). During the 10th edition of this master, 20 students from 10 different countries participated in the program.

Educational virtual platform

The new TPM virtual platform allows a personalized learning process and adapts the different professional needs of the stu-dents. Moreover, several new learning tools have been added.

The platform is intuitive and its interface contains different easy functions. The cours-es have been structured in a very clear way in order to make the distant learning pro-cess favorable.


03 INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

From 2010, the Repsol Fundation has been supporting a cooperation project with Trinidad and Tobago. This pro-ject is being developed as the basis for the Organ Do-nor and Transplant System in Caribbean Countries.

A new part of the project have been developed this year, which reinforces the work done since 2010 through the institutional collaboration as well as reinforcement of the cadaveric donation to ensure the durability of the activity in the future.

The following actions were developed in 2014: -Creation of a Work Commission composed of key personnel for designing the sustaina-bility plan for all activities for the next 6 years. - Elaboration of a Consensus Document and a Memo-randum of Understanding (MoU) to guarantee the sus-tainability of the activities in Trinidad and Tobago. - Virtual monthly meetings of the implied actors in the creation of MoU.- Design of the training plan with local professionals. - Monthly monitoring and advice of the donation ac-tivities in the following hospitals: Port of Spain, Eric Wil-

liams and San Fernando. - A health professional linked to Repsol has been incor-porated to the project: Dr Ana Simón is a neurologist relative to a Repsol worker allocated in T&T. Dr Simón has been incorporated to the executive team of the project.

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO


04 EUROPEAN PROJECTS

04.1 EMPODaTEMPODaT (European Mediterranean Postgrad-uate Program in Organ Donation and Transplan-tation) is a European program witin the TEMPUS project coordinated by the University of Barcelona and financed by the European Commission on the Educational, Audiovisual and Cultural Field (EA-CEA). Its main objective is to develop and imple-ment a Postgraduate Program of Organ Donation and Transplantation in accordance with the Euro-pean Area of Higher Education within 6 different Universities from Morocco, Egypt and Lebanon (ENPI countries – European Neighborhood Pol-icy Partnership Instrument). The program is de-veloped with 4 different European universities in Sweden, Germany, France and Spain and uses the blended educational methodology that provides a common framework to the 90 professionals to whom it is addressed. The training is given in the language of the beneficiary country, usually in English or French, which creates the basis for a Eu-ropean-Mediterranean training model of special-ists in organ donation and transplantation.

Within our collaboration framework in the Twinning Project with Moldova and the Agence de la Biomedicine and OCATT, a diagnosis study to evaluate the training needs in organ donation, transplan-tation and tissue banking in Moldova has been developed. We have carried out an educational plan for the coordination of the face to face courses and online courses addressed to health professionals in the country.

Images corresponding to the European projects

04.2 TWINNING PROJECT WITHMOLDOVA


05 CONGRESSES

WORLD TRANSPLANT CONGRESS. SAN FRANCISCO, USA

14th CONGRESS OF THE MIDDLE EAST SOCIETY FOR ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION (MESOT). ISTANBUL, TURKEY

EUROPEAN ORGAN DONATION CONGRESS, 25th EDTCO HUNGARY, BUDAPEST

EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF TISSUE BANKS EATB. LUND, SWEDEN

II INTERNACIONAL CONGRESS OF DONATION AND TRANSPLANTATION. GUAYAQUIL, ECUADOR

7th WORLD CONGRESS ON TISSUE BANKING - 15th BAA ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC MEETING.


06 OTHER COLLABORATIONS

IRODAT. INTERNATIONAL REGISTRY IN ORGAN DONATION AND TRANSPLANTATIONIRODaT is a date base that facilitates information of activities per countries regarding donation and trans-plantation. IRODaT’s objective is to help health pro-fessionals, researchers and the general audience to have access to validated and certified information. Last November, IRODaT published a bulletin with the reported numbers per 71 countries concerning organ donation and transplantation in 2013. The numbers regarding to 2014 will be published in due course. More info: www.irodat.com.

BLACK SEA AREA PROJECTThe Black Sea Project is coordinated by the European Council and its main objective is promoting the or-gan donation and transplant activity within those 9 countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Georgia, Moldavia, Rumania, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine. In this project, both DTI and ONT are responsible for the Working Package 4 centralized on the study of clinical practices in Organ Donation and Trans-plantation in Turkey, Russia and Rumania. The last evaluation visit was in 2014 where an expert group from DTI proceeded to compare the situation within the three hospitals evaluated in 2013 with the aim of formulating recommendations to the Health Minis-try, the National Agency of Transplantation and those hospitals that wanted to improve its activity.

SOCIAL COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA AND BOSCH I GIMPERA FOUNDATION AWARDSThe Secondary Award Antoni Caparrós to the best technology and knowledge transfer project was given to Dr. Martí Manyalich Vidal for the project “Cascade training in organ and tissue donation and transplantation” from DTI Foundation.

3rd EDITION OF THE TRANSPLANT COORDINATION MANUAL

VISIT FROM THE INDIAN MINISTRY OF HEALTH

The Indian minister of health, Dr Harsh Vardhan, and his delegation visited the DTI offices in order to get to know the good practices in Spain towards the do-nation and transplantation field. The minister showed a great interest on DTI’s international work and pro-jects as well as the results obtained on the latest years.

The 3rd Edition of the Transplant Coordination Man-ual was edited in 2014 and now is available in either printed or digital form. 63 international experts collaborated on this Edition. The Manual has a high educational value because it constitutes the vast edu-cational sources for the TPM courses.

PUBLICATIONSThe Impact of TPM training on Organ Donation and Transplantation. The specialized organ donation and transplantation training (D&T) is relevant to improve transplants. The main objective of this study was to investigate on the participants’ perceived benefits regarding TPM courses concerning the development of profession-al skills. For this study, it was elaborated a survey within 5 lan-guages (Spanish, English, Italian, French and Portu-guese) and it was approved by the University of Barce-lona (Spain) and the University of Purdue (USA). The link was sent by post to 6839 individuals and we asked them to send it to other active professionals related to the field. It was shared on Facebook and in congress-es as well. Two research questions were identified re-garding the perceived influence from the specialized training programs. The article of the study have been accepted for publication on Experimental and Clini-cal Transplantation.

DTI Foundation has been invited to the 14th European Committee (Par-tial Agreement) on Organ Transplan-tation (CD-P-TO) meeting in order to present its activity results within the BSA project. The meeting took place in Rome within the scope of Pope Francisco’s Audience and the activities related to the XVI edition of the European Day for Organ Donation.

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