RIGA PROGRAMME DRAFT

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME:

3 October

8-12 - Workshop I - Donor Treatment –
Directors: José M Dominguez-Roldan, Francesco Procaccio, Julien Charpentier

8 -12 - Workshop II - “Communication Skills for Transplant Coordinators”
Directors: Maria Stadtler, Tina Coco

12-13 - Lunch

13.00 Opening Ceremony: Welcome Speeches by President of ETCO, President of Baltransplant, City Representative

14.00-16.00 - Round Table I – Donor management/ organ donor treatment

1.Aggressive organ donor management
Speaker – A. Salim (USA) (pending confirmation)

2.Methods for increasing the yield of hearts and lungs for transplantation
Speaker – R Venkateswaran (UK)

3.A simple and effective protocol for donor management
Speaker – C-L Fischer-Fröhlich (Germany)

3 best papers on Donor Management

16-16.30 Coffee Break

16.30-18.30 - Round Table II – Donation after Cardiac Death

1.Protocols for recovering organs after cardiac death – The USA experience
Speaker – Kevin O’Connor (USA)

2.Uncontrolled DCD – The Spanish experience
Speaker – José Ramon Nuñez (Spain)

3.Strategies to improve the quality of organs from DCD
Speaker – Rui Maio (Portugal)

Best 3 papers on DCD

20.00-23.00 – Dinner Symposium, Organ Preservation

4 October

7-9 - CETC Exam

9-11 - Round Table III – Living Donation

1.Donor exchange and non-directed donation: Strategies to increase the donor pool for transplantation
Speaker – Williem Weimar (Netherlands)

2.Risk and limits of living donation
Speaker – Per Pfeffer (Norway)

3.The ethical limits in expanding living donor transplantation
Speaker–H Gabel (Sweden)

Best 3 papers on Living Donation

11-11.30 Coffee Break

11.30-13.00 - Free Papers/Posters

13.00-14.00 Lunch Symposium Immunological and Nonimmunological Factors in Transplantation

14.30-16.30 - Round Table IV – Quality in the Donation/Transplantation process

1.Quality assurance programme of the donation process
Speaker – Blanca Miranda (Spain)

2.Risk management and performance in transplantation
Speaker – J. Fragata (Portugal)

3.The real costs of transplantation programmes
Speaker – A. Oosterlee (pending confirmation)

Best 3 papers on Quality

16.30- 17.00 coffee break

17.00-18.00 Poster Session

20.00 Gala Dinner

5 October

9-10.30 - Round table V – Relevant Issues on Transplantation

1.Transplant Coordinators Certification
In Europe Speaker – David Paredes (Spain) (pending confirmation)
In USA Speaker – Jan Finn, president NATCO (USA)

2.Extended criteria donors in Europe – Patient and Graft outcomes and economical impact
Speaker – Günter Kirste (Germany)

3.Differences in organ allocation in Europe – Multiorgan allocation
Speaker – Axel Rahmel (Netherlands)

10.30-11.00 Coffee Break

11.00-12.30 - Final Conference and Closing Ceremony

1.Coordination in Baltic States
Speakers – Sergej Trushkov

2.Small country – small donor pool. How to run a single centre Organ Procurement Organization
Speaker – Ferdinand Mühlbacher (Austria) (pending confirmation)