Aims of the Fellowship
Progressive training in the various surgical and medical aspects of abdominal transplantation and familiarisation with the coordination of the entire transplant process from procurement to transplantation.
At the end of the 2-year fellowship, the fellow will have been trained in:
- Multi-organ procurement; donation after brain death (DBD) and circulatory death (DCD)
- Back-table work of kidneys and livers (and exposure to pancreas and intestine)
- Experience with kidney and liver machine perfusion, normothermic regional perfusion
- Kidney and liver transplantation (and exposure to pancreas and intestinal transplantation)
- Elective surgery in transplant candidates and transplant recipients
- Evaluation of
- Deceased donors
- Deceased donor offers o Living kidney donors
- Transplant candidates
- Management of
- Transplant candidates on the waiting list until transplant
- Transplant recipients in the peritransplant period and during follow-up in the ward and at the outpatient clinic
Application
Please send your CV and motivation letter to Prof. dr Jacques Pirenne before 01/01/2023.
Jacques.pirenne@uzleuven.be
secretariaat.transplantatiechirurgie@uzleuven.be
