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.
Dr. Maria Simonenko works as a heart transplant cardiologist and clinical researcher in Almazov National Medical Research Centre, St. Petersburg, Russia. Her fields of interests are the follow-up of heart transplant recipients, focusing on prevention, on-time diagnosis and management of post-transplant complications and comorbidities, the same as prescription of rehabilitation and exercise. In 2010 the 1st heart transplantation was performed on North-West of Russia and the same she joined a heart transplant team while being a medical student. She graduated and then completed her internship at the I.P. Pavlov St. Petersburg State Medical University. After that Maria undertook a cardio residency and PhD programme at Almazov National Medical Research Centre. Her PhD dissertation was focused on physical capacity and quality of life after heart transplantation. Since 2014 she had worked as a clinical research fellow in the Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing Research Department and since 2020 – as a clinical researcher. In 2016 she developed the protocol of long-term follow-up in recipients after heart transplantation that was accepted. And since 2016 Maria Simonenko is responsible for the whole post-heart transplant outpatient follow-up. At the age of 27 she was invited to lecture on post-graduate course about follow-up after heart transplantation and since that she lectures on a few post-graduate courses in the field of chronic heart failure, mechanical circulatory support and heart transplantation. She is also an active member of European Association of Preventive Cardiology (EAPC – nucleus member), Heart Failure Association (HFA – committee member) on behalf of European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and European Society for Organ Transplantation (ESOT). Numerous of publications were published in both Russian and English, the same as she co-authored position papers on behalf of European Society of Cardiology (ESC). Moreover, Maria works as a reviewer in the following journals: EJPC, ESC Heart Failure, Transplantation, JHLT, JACC: Case Reports etc.
