Seminarier om organtransplantation

20-22 juni bjuder Västra Götalandsregionen och World Transplant Games in till 15 olika seminarier om donation och transplantation. Seminarierna hålls på Stadsbiblioteket i Göteborg och är öppna för allmänheten. Fri entré.

Kontakt: Håkan Gäbel, Medicinskt ansvarig, Tel. 0708 – 83 32 66

Program:

Monday 20 June

Seminars in English
12:00-13:00   Physical Activity and Sport after Transplantation – What did we learn?
Olivier Coustere, President of the World Transplant Games Federation

13:00-14:00   Organ Donation and Transplantation – ethical and religious aspects
Daniel Brattgård, hospital chaplain, Sahlgrenska University Hospital

Seminars in Swedish
16:00-16:40   Heart- and Lung Transplants in Sweden
Göran Dellgren, MD of thoracic surgery at the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Sahlgrenska University Hospital

16:40-17:20   Live Kidney Donations in Europe and Sweden
Annette Lennerling, MD and patient coordinator at the Department of Transplantation and Liver Surgery, Sahlgrenska University Hospital

17:20-18:00 Donation of Kidney and Liver from Living Donors – surgical aspects
Markus Gäbel, surgeon at the Department of Transplantation and Liver Surgery, Sahlgrenska University Hospital

Tuesday 21 June

Seminars in English
12:00-12:30   We welcome you to the WTG2013 – South Africa
Willie Uys, Councillor of the World Transplant Games Federation and the National Chairman of the South African Transplant Sports Association

12:30-14:00   Transplant Tourism, Commercialism and Organ Trafficking - what do we know about these dark sides of transplantation?
Annika Tibell, Chairman of the Department of Transplantation Surgery, Karolinska University Hospital, and Susanne Lundin, Professor of ethnology at the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Lund University

Seminars in Swedish
16:00-16:40   Repairing and Protecting Organs for Transplantation
Tomas Lorant, MD and responsible for the experimental research at the Department of Surgical Sciences, Uppsala University Hospital

16:40-17:20   Organ Transplants in Göteborg – a retrospect
Styrbjörn Friman, surgeon at the Department of Transplantation and Liver Surgery, Sahlgrenska University Hospital

17:20–18:00   Liver Transplant Yesterday, Today and in the Future
William Bennet, Head of the Department of Transplantation and Liver Surgery

Wednesday 22 June

Seminars in English

12:00-13:00   Developing Donation from Deceased Donors – global efforts of the professional societies Henrik Ekberg, Senior Transplant Surgeon at the University Hospital in Malmö, and Professor of Transplant Surgery at Lund University Hospital

13:00-14:00   A Subject about Life – information to high-school students
Håkan Hedman, President of the Swedish Kidney Association, Chairman of Professor Lars-Erik Gelin Memorial Foundation, and, in addition, former Team Manager for Sweden and participant of WTG 1989, 1991, and 1993.

Seminars in Swedish

16:00-16:40   Donated Organs and Tissue – the finest gift you can give
Bengt- Åke Henriksson, MD and Senior Physician at the Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Sahlgrenska University Hospital

16:40-17:20

Gustaf Herlenius, Senior Physician responsible for intestine and multiorgantransplants at the Department of Transplantation and Liver Surgery, Sahlgrenska University Hospital

17:20-18:00   The Perceived Threats of the Risk of Organ Rejection
Madeleine Nilsson, paediatric nurse at Queen Silvia’s Children’s Hospital, Sahlgrenska University Hospital