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.
Frank J.M.F. Dor, MD PhD FEBS(hon) FRCS
Consultant Transplant Surgeon, Clinical Lead for Transplantation, Imperial College Renal & Transplant Centre, Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK.
Frank Dor studied Medicine in Antwerp and at the Erasmus University Rotterdam (MD, cum laude). After a postdoctoral fellowship at the Transplantation Biology Research Center at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA, Frank was trained as an abdominal transplant surgeon at the Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He continued working there as a Consultant Transplant Surgeon and Surgical Director of Kidney Transplantation. He did a sabattical at The Liver Transplant Unit of King’s College Hospital in London, and joined the Imperial College Renal and Transplant Centre at Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK, in 2016 as Consultant Transplant Surgeon and Lead for Transplantation.
Frank is an active clinical and translational scientist, and a passionate educationalist. He served as Chair of ESOT’s education committee, as Hesperis Course chair, and is Director of the ESOT Live Donor Nephrectomy Course, Treasurer of ESOT (ambassadorship and communication, Lead of the Social Media Ambassador programme), Council Member of the British Transplantation Society, Chair of the BTS Chapter of Surgeons, Deputy-Chair of the Kidney Advisory Group of NHS Blood and Transplant, member of the European Surgical Association, Chair of the Clinical Ethics Committee of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, and UK national delegate of the UEMS Division for Transplant Surgery. He is an advisor to the Peter Morris Centre for Evidence in Transplantation. He has been Senior Secretary of the UEMS Division for Transplant Surgery and Secretary General of the European Society for Surgical Research (ESSR).
Frank is Editor-in-Chief of European Surgical Research, Academic Editor of PLOSOne, Associate Editor of Transplantation and the World Journal of Transplantation, and is editorial board member of several other transplant and surgical journals.
He has published widely in peer-reviewed journals and books.
