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.
Marleen van Buren has more than 13 years experience as a nurse practitioner at the kidney transplant department at the Erasmus MC Transplant Institute. She completed her bachelor of nursing in 2004 at the University of Applied Sciences in Rotterdam and the Erasmus MC. Her graduation project was ‘Nursing guidelines for the clinical follow-up after lung transplantation’, where after she continued working as a registered nurse at the Erasmus MC. She continued training in intensive care nursing at the Maasstad Hospital in Rotterdam. In 2008 she started the Master in Advanced Nursing Practice program at the University of Applied Sciences in Rotterdam and the Kidney Transplant Department of the Erasmus MC; after graduation in 2010 she continued working in this department as a registered Nurse Practitioner. In 2022 she finished her PhD on pregnancy after kidney transplantation. For this project she initiated the national data network (Pregnancy After Renal Transplantation OUTcomes) PARTOUT together with both transplant and obstetric professionals.
After finishing her PhD she started working as a project manager of transplant care at the Erasmus MC Transplant Institute where she plays a vital role in connecting the transplant programs. Current projects she is working on are: home-monitoring, value-based healthcare, self-management, education, rehabilitation after transplantation and transition from academic to secondary/primary care.
She was a board member of the National Nurse Practitioner Society (V&VN VS) and chair of its congress committee. Since September 2023 she is chair of the European Transplant Allied Healthcare Professionals (ETAHP) and board member of the Dutch Transplant Society where she is dedicated to empower (transplant) nurses and allied health professionals as vital members of the multidisciplinary transplant team.
