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.
Sara Pasquato (psychologist psychotherapist) obtained her degree in Psychology from Padova University in 2002. Subsequently she completed: a master degree in “Parenthood: preventive, diagnostic and psychoterapeutic interventions” promoted by Padova University and directed by Prof. Fava Vizziello with a study on parenthood and complicated grief with the collaboration of the Veneto Regional Transplant Centre in 2003; a training at the Centre d’Etude de la Famille (Lausanne) to use observation of triadic relations in a systemic view of child and family development in 2003; the specialization in Clinical Psychology at Padova University in 2008.
From 2004 to 2009 she worked at the Veneto Regional Transplant Centre (Padova Hospital) in the areas of psychological support of the families in donation process and in situations of complicated grief, living donation, training of health professionals in donation and transplantation, information activities with students and general population to sensitize towards organ and tissue donation, research in the areas of donation and transplantation. From 2010 to 2023 she worked in the Psychiatric Diagnosis and Care Service in Mestre-Venezia Hospital and in the Mental Health Centre. In March 2023 she joined the Psychological Service of Padova Hospital in the areas of liver transplantation and living donation.
She is member of the Italian Society S.I.Psi.T.O. (Psychological and Psychiatric Transplant Italian Society). She has been member of the Group of Referents for transplant psychological and psychiatric aspects of the Veneto Region, which elaborated the “Guidelines for psychological assessment and assistance in donation and transplantation” for the Veneto Region in 2009.
