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. Mats Brännström is professor in and chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Institute of Clinical Sciences at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He is also Senior Consultant of Gynecology and Reproductive Medicine at Sahlgrenska University Hospital. He received his M.D. from the University of Gothenburg in 1985, his Ph.D. in Physiology from the University of Gothenburg 1988, and completed his postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Adelaide, Australia in 1993. He has received numebrous awards in the field including the Bob Edwards Price Award from the Indian Association of Embryology 2014; the Czech Transplantation Foundation Annual Award, 2015; and the Dexeus International Science Award, 2015. He is Honorary Professor, Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Moscow University; the 9th Joseph E. Murray Visiting Professor in Transplant Surgery, Harvard Medical School; and an Honorary Member of the International Society of Vascularized and Composite Allotransplantation.
Prof. Brännström’s team’s research focus is on female reproductive health; the main goal of which is to improve diagnostics, treatment and postoperative care for a number of common female health issues by performing experimental, clinical and epidemiological studies including: vulation mechanisms, effects of prophylactic oophorectomy, uterus transplantation, bioengineered uterus and ovary ovarian cryopreservation.
In Sweden alone there are approximately 2,000–3,000 women who are childless because of an dysfunctional or missing uterus. After careful planning nine women have recieved a new uterus from transplantation. In September 2014, the first transplanted woman delivered a baby – a healthy and normally developed boy.
