The aim of the Education Committee (EC) is to coordinate ESOT’s efforts to advance multidisciplinary education for transplant professionals at all career levels and to contribute to their professional development.
The Basic Science Committee promotes scientific issues and transplantation research within ESOT. An active basic science community and an efficient translation of innovation into the clinic are crucial for the future of transplantation medicine.
The European Transplant Allied Healthcare Professionals (ETAHP) reaches out to allied healthcare professionals throughout Europe in order to ensure the best care possible for all transplant patients, with the aim to optimize patient outcomes.
The Young Professionals in Transplantation (YPT) is the Network for Junior Transplant professionals of ESOT, representing all young transplant clinicians and scientists who are beginning a career in transplantation and organ donation.
The mission of ECTORS is to provide a forum for discussing and stimulating novel developments in the fields of cellular therapies in organ transplantation, organ regeneration and generation of new organs from stem cells and biomaterials.
ECTTA is the forum for experience exchange on treatment of patients with end-stage heart and lung failure. Our aim is to improve outcomes for the patients.
EDTCO aims to support health care professionals to provide clinically effective programmes on organ and tissue donation, procurement and transplantation.
EKITA is the Organ Expert Section of ESOT on kidney transplantation in Europe, providing a forum for kidney transplantation professionals to exchange scientific information and views aimed at providing the best service to European patients .
The European Liver and Intestine Transplant Association (ELITA), previously known as the European Liver Transplant Association (ELTA), is a section of ESOT. Its membership represents the expertise on liver and intestinal transplantation in Europe.
ELPAT is a European platform that brings continuity and progress in European research and dialogue on "Ethical, Legal and Psychosocial Aspects of organ Transplantation". ELPAT currently consists of over 160 experts from more than 25 European countries.
EPITA is established to provide a forum for those working in the field of pancreas and islet of Langerhans transplantation or any other alternative form of beta cell replacement in Europe, to exchange scientific information and views related primarily to providing the best service for patients in Europe requiring pancreas or islet transplantation.
VCA has opened a new era in the field of transplantation, reconstructive and restorative surgery. This Section brings together 10 representatives of major European teams at the forefront in this field.
Professor Steve White graduated from the University of Leicester Medical School in 1992. He then spent two years doing research in pancreatic islet cell transplantation for which he was awarded a Doctor of Medicine higher degree. He was part of the team that did the first islet transplants in the UK and now has an international reputation in this area and is the only person from the UK who sits on the European Pancreatic and Islet Transplant Association Council (EPITA). He has also won numerous national and international awards for research with over 200 publications and was awarded a personal chair in HPB and Transplantation Surgery from the University of Newcastle in 2011. He was the Moynihan Travel fellow of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland, Travel Fellow of the Association of Laparoscopic Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland as well as recipient of the Royal College of Surgeons New York inc fellowship which allowed training in The Sloane Kettering Cancer Centre New York (Prof Blumgart), The Mayo Clinic Rochester, The Johns Hopkins Baltimore and The University of Minnesota (Prof David Sutherland). He also spent a two year fellowship in the Leeds Liver Unit.
