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.
From 2002 to 2013 Dr. Feltrin worked at the Dept. of Cardiac Surgery of the Azienda Ospedaliera/University of Padua where he made his training in Cardiac Surgery. Dr. Feltrin took part to several general cardiac surgery procedures (including heart transplantation, mechanical circulatory support implantation, and donor hearts harvest procedures) both as an assistant and as a first surgeon. He was responsible for the Outpatient Clinic for Heart Transplant recipients , following over 500 patients of both paediatric and adult age. Dr Feltrin was member of the working group on organ donation safety and on cardiac transplantation at Nord Italian Transplant Program (NITp) and of the national working group on cardiac transplantation at the National Transplantation Center (CNT). During his collaboration with CNT, Dr Feltrin was the coauthor of the first national Guidelines on Mechanical Circulatory Support. Dr. Feltrin was the responsible of the first national registry on mechanical circulatory support “ITAMACS REGISTRY” on behalf of CNT. From 2014 to 2015 Dr. Feltrin was appointed as the Chief Medical Officer of the Regional Centre for Transplant Coordination of Veneto Region. In 2016 Dr. Feltrin was promoted to the role of Regional Transplant Coordinator of Veneto Region. In April 2016, Dr. Feltrin was appointed member of the expert team for the Humanitarian Health care Programme of Veneto Region. Since November 2017 he is Board member of SITO (Italian Society for Organ Transplantation) and since 2019 he also is SITO Treasurer. In January 2019 he was appointed member of the scientific Board of EDTCO (ESOT). Dr Feltrin is author/co-author of 2 Monographs and 51 publications indexed in PubMed. Main topics of interest are: cardiac surgery, heart transplantation, ventricular assist devices, pediatric heart transplantation.
