BTS
British Transplantation Society
The British Transplantation Society (the BTS) is the professional voice of transplantation in the UK, representing all the varied disciplines in transplantation including clinicians, nurses, pharmacists, scientists involved both in basic research and in histocompatibility laboratories, ethicists and other professions allied to medicine.
DTG
Deutsche Transplantationsgesellschaft eV
The Deutsche Transplantationsgesellschaft eV (DTG) is a scientific, interdisciplinary specialist society whose aim is to promote and represent organ transplantation in Germany in organizational, clinical and scientific terms.
The DTG is involved with representatives of the board and the organ commissions in the work of the Standing Commission for Organ Transplantation (StäKO) and the guideline commissions at the German Medical Association, in the Foundation Council of the DSO, in various Eurotransplant committees, in cross-sectoral quality assurance (IQTIG) and in the new established transplant registry.
As an interdisciplinary specialist society, we expressly welcome the cooperation of colleagues from all specialist disciplines who want to actively participate in the further development of transplant medicine.
ESOT
European Society For Organ Transplantation
The European Society for Organ Transplantation is an international cooperation among medical professionals who perform organ transplants on a daily basis. Their overall goal is to improve scientific knowledge and skills for these professionals.
Eurotransplant
Eurotransplant is responsible for the allocation of donor organs in Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Slovenia. This international collaborative framework includes all transplant hospitals, tissue-typing laboratories and hospitals where organ donations take place.
ITNS
International Transplantation Nursing Society
Online source for Clinical Transplant Nursing Education and Organ Transplant Research. ITNS provides a forum for learning about the most current advances in transplantation and transplant patient care.
ISOP
International Society for Organ Preservation
As a source for education for all who are interested acquiring knowledge in the fast expanding field of organ preservation, the ISOP also seeks to educate and equipment those who wish accreditation in organ preservation.
NATCO
Organization for Transplant Professionals
Committed to the advancement of organ and tissue donation and transplantation, NATCO is comprised of a diverse group of professionals: Procurement practitioners, Transplant practitioners, Hospital Development specialists and Public Education specialists.
SET
Sociedad Española Trasplante
The Spanish Transplant Society, SET, is established under the provisions of the Associations Law and its purposes are exclusively scientific and aimed at the development and progress of organ transplantation in Spain. To do this, it will promote the dissemination of knowledge in the field of organ transplantation, will promote the organization of events (congresses, meetings, symposiums, etc.) that favor this end, and will announce research grants whose bases will be published soon. SET will provide advice. free of charge to people or institutions, who are interested in organ transplantation, request it.
SITO
La Società Italiana dei Trapianti d’Organo e di Tessuti
The Italian Society of Organ and Tissue Transplants, established in Rome in 1966, is a non-profit association. The main mission of the SITO is to promote scientific activities in Italy for greater depth, dissemination and knowledge of issues relating to organ and tissue transplants.
SFT
La Société Francophone de Transplantation
Society Goals:
- To bring together all French-speaking clinicians and researchers, regardless of their country of practice,
- To study all questions relating to removal, organ transplantation, tissue and cell transplantation,
- To promote fundamental and applied research, organize scientific and educational meetings in French-speaking countries,
- To collaborate with learned societies involved in these themes,
- To lead all discussions and act, as an expert, on any problem concerning the organization and ethics of organ harvesting and transplantation,
- To promote organ donation in conjunction with the public authorities,
- To promote the development of transplantation in emerging French-speaking countries,
- To promote young professionals involved in the field of transplantation.
UNOS
United Network for Organ Sharing
A private, non-profit organization that manages the U.S. organ transplant system under contract with the U.S. federal government.
ASTS
American Society of Transplant Surgeons
The ASTS is active in many arenas including the training of transplant surgeons, the dissemination of clinically relevant scientific information, the important issues of reimbursement and transplantation economics. This organization is a vital resource to surgeons who serve patients who need or have needed an organ transplant.
AOPO
Association of Organ Procurement Organizations
AOPO is dedicated to the special concerns of Organ Procurement Organizations and provides education, information sharing, research and technical assistance and collaboration with other healthcare organizations and federal agencies.
