Barriers in developing successful deceased organ transplantation program
Beatriz Dominguez
Director-General
Organización Nacional de Trasplantes (ONT)
Madrid, Spain
Medical doctor, specialist in Nephrology. Ph.D. in internal medicine. She joined the Organización Nacional de Trasplantes (ONT) in November 2006 and became its Director-General in May 2017. ONT is the national authority responsible for the oversight, coordination, and organization of the donation and clinical use of organs, tissues and cells in Spain.
Immediate past chair of the Committee of Transplantation of the Council of Europe (CD-P-TO), president of the Iberoamerican Network/Council on Donation and transplantation (RCIDT), and member of the World Health Organization Task Force to promote ethical practices in the donation and transplantation of organs, tissues and cells.
Past chair of the European Donation and Transplant Coordination Organization (EDTCO), past councilor of The Transplantation Society (TTS) and member of its Ethics Committee, and past chair of the Declaration of Istanbul Custodian Group on Organ Trafficking and Transplant Tourism. She has more than 130 publications in scientific journals and book chapters
Role of Government in improving self-sufficiency in organ transplantation: Korean experience
Curie Ahn
Prof. Division of Nephrology
National Medical Center
Seoul, South Korea
Curie Ahn, MD, Ph.D. is a nephrologist from Seoul, Korea. She is the General Secretary of the Asian Society of Transplantation as well as a Councilor of The Transplantation of Society contributing to those societies for improving transplantation medicine especially in Asia. In addition, as a Director of the Vitallink, she has been actively participating in clinical capacity-building in nephrology and in deceased organ transplantation for the last 10 years. As a research scientist, she has established the national cohort for CKD(KNOW-CKD) and for organ transplantation (KOTRY, Korean Organ Transplantation Registry), to provide a translational research basis.
