Previous Award Winners
RIGA, 2008
ETCO best oral presenation and abstract award:
- Dr Francisco Del Rio Gallegos and Colleagues, from Hospital San Carlos, Madrid, Spain
"Machine perfusion improves results of transplant with kidneys obtained from Donors After Cardiac Death",
ETCO best poster presenation and abstract award:
- Jacqueline Smits and Colleagues (presented by Axel Rahmel)
"Should the choice between single lung transplant vs both lung transplant be influenced by the expected survival benefit?"
PRAGUE, 2007
ETCO best oral presentation and abstract award:
- Elisabeth Coll
- Beatriz Domíngez-Gil
- Gloria De la Rosa
- Gregorio Garrido
- Eduardo Martín
- Beatriz Mahíllo
- Blanca Miranda and Rafael Matesanz; Madrid, Spain
"Quality control programme: providing gold standards in organ donation process"
ETCO best poster presentation and abstract award:
- Ewa Sadowska
- Irena Milaniak
- Karol Wierzibcki
- Piotr Przybyowski and Jersy Sadowski; Krakow, Poland
"The social educational campaign promoting donation and organ transplantation in lesser (Malopolska) region in Poland"
ETCO "Organ & Tissues" Award
Aimee Cunningham For her article, published in OT&C, VOLUME 9, Issue 3, Novemenber 2006 on
"Organ donation and coroner authorisation within a state based coronial system"
ETCO award for professional excellence:
- Stefan Vitko, MD, PhD, Prague, Czech Republic
In appreciation of his contribution to the world of donation and transplantation
WROCLAW, 2006
Awards for the best three presentations:
- Liver transplantation using livers from septuagenarian and octogenarian donors: an underused strategy to reduce waiting list mortality (Frank van Gelder et al from Leuven/Belgium): Brain dead donors older than 70 years can be used as liver donors with good outcome.
- The Dutch living kidney exchange program (Marry de Klerk, et al from Rotterdam/Holland): Living donation realized by exchange of donors to overcome immunologic barriers (blood-group and cross-match) with the side effect of reducing waiting lists.
- Histopathological and molecular changes before and during renal transplantation (Dorota Kaminska et. al. from Wroclaw/Poland): Description of histopathological and molecular factors which may damage the kidney graft by gene-expression and inflammatory markers during brain death, organ preservation and reperfusion.
GENEVA 2005
ETCO best oral presentation and abstract award:
- Willij Zuidema
- Gabriëlle Bakker
- Karin Keize
- Joke Roodnat
- Jan IJzermans
- Willem Weimar (Leiden, Rotterdam, Netherlands)
"Shifting kidney donor profiles".
ETCO best poster presentation and abstract award:
- Caroline Gachet
- Luca Imperatori
- Gwenola Eschenmoser
- René Chioléro (Lausanne, Switzerland)
"Why only 13 donors pmp in Switzerland - is there a reason?".
ETCO "organs and Tissues Award:
- L. Fontana
- P.G. Errani
- A. Zerbinati
- Y. Musacchi
- B. Di Pede
- Giorgio Tassinari
for the best article published in the Journal "Organs & Tissues" in 2004 titled
"The relative risk of donor to host microbic infection by penetrating keratoplasty using hypothermic and organ cultured donor corneas".
ETCO award for professional excellence:
- Bernard Cohen & Guido Persijn (The Netherlands) for their dedication, support and enthusiasm in promoting and supporting ETCO and for Bernard's work as Founding Father of ETCO.
