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Future Opportunities for Tissue Donation and Banking

Thursday October 19, 2023 - 14:45 to 16:15

Room: Banyan ABCD

128.1 Surprises and challenges: My organ donor is also a tissue donor

Aurora Navarro Cantullera, Spain

Chief officer
Biovigilance
Catalan Transplant Organization (OCATT)

Biography

Graduated from Medicine School at Autonomous University in Barcelona (1997) and Certified Transplant Coordinator for the European Transplant Coordinators Association (ETCO) and Transplant Procurement management (TPM) in1999. Executive Master on Leading Health Organizations in ESADE Business School Barcelona 2012-2014; 2016-217. Associate teacher for the University of Barcelona (UB) since 2016.

Organ and tissue Transplant Coordinator in Clinic Hospital from 1997 to 2007. Multi-Tissue Bank Director in Banc de Sang i Teixits, Barcelona from 2007-2015. Since 2015, Organ and tissue vigilance officer in Catalan Transplant Organization (OCATT) and Medical coordinator for Notify Project (World Health Organization) until present.

Education experience: Teacher in more than 70 training activities mainly in organ and tissue donation and transplantation, tissue banking and biovigilance. 20 years director of the International online Tissue Banking Course (UB) and coordinator of the Spanish Biovigilance course on biovigilance for 7 editions.

International Projects participation: Coordinator of the European Quality System for Tissue Banking (EQSTB 2006), SANCO Project and participant in 7 European Projects initiatives. Expert for the “Guide to the Quality and safety of Tissues and cells” for human application since  4th edition.

Scientific publications: 29; Book Chapters:4; Congresses presentations:71

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