Save the Date! – CDTRP 7th Annual Scientific Meeting
UPDATED – CBS Consensus Guidance on COVID-19
The Canadian Blood Services' Professional Education website will be updating donation and transplantation services nationwide. Click here for the most recent Consensus Guidance for Organ Donation and transplant Services during COVID-19 Pandemic, COVID-19 impact on Kidney Paired Donation (KPD) and Highly Sensitized Patient Programs (HSP) and Consensus guidance for tissue donation during COVID-19 pandemic. [...]
Open Access Publications – Donation and Transplantation Focus
Open Access Publications – Donation and Transplantation Focus The CDTRP in partnership with Canadian Blood Services, the Canadian Society of Transplantation and the Université de Montréal’s Canada Research Chair team are developing a systematic, coordinated approach to search, retrieve, synthesize and store emerging information related to COVID-19 implications for organ and tissue donation and [...]
Past CDTRP Webinars Available
The CDTRP has combed through all recordings created since 2014 with plans to upload them on cdtrp.ca. To fast-track the project to the community in the meantime, we are pleased to make all recordings available upon request for the titles below. To view 2019-2020 presentations, please visit our Webinar page here. To request any [...]
Update on Events in Donation and Transplantation
There is a growing number of international and national events that will be going virtual for the 2020-2021 season. The donation and transplantation community are quick to adhere to advice from authorities to ensure better practices during the COVID-19 pandemic. Some key events for the community, including the American Transplant Congress (atcmeeting.org) and TTS [...]
Grant Application Success: Dr. Shaifali Sandal
The CDTRP would like to congratulate Dr. Shaifali Sandal (Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University) on her recent success in the American Society of Transplantation Research Network Career Development Grants: 2020 grant competition. Dr. Sandal was awarded funds to support her project listed below: Identifying system-level barriers to living donor [...]
Recording available – French Webinar: COVID-19 et les Patients Transplantés – Réponse à vos Questions
COVID-19 is a serious health thread and the situation is evolving daily. In these uncertain times, it's normal to feel anxious, especially for those with underlying health conditions. Talking to people you can trust and getting the information you need can help. The Kidney Foundation, in collaboration with the Canadian Society of Nephrology and [...]
Seeking for transplant recipients and their family members for a study on the impact of COVID-19
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on immunosuppressed graft/tissue/stem cell recipients and their relatives We are still recruiting transplant recipients and their family members interested in contributing, as a volunteer research participant, to a study aimed at understanding the Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on immunosuppressed graft recipients and their relatives. More specifically, this project [...]
Recording Available: COVID-19: Organ Donation and Transplant Town Hall #3
A number of transplant organizations from around the world have partnered to develop this educational webinar for the organ donation and transplantation communities. The goal was to share experiences to date and respond to questions about the impact of COVID-19 on organ donation and transplantation. Enjoy the Town Hall #3 by accessing the recording [...]
Canadian Institute for Health Information – COVID-19 Resources
The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) is committed to collecting, analyzing and sharing credible health data to help improve health care systems and the health of all Canadians. CIHI has compiled key reports and resources containing information related to the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. For updated information on Health Care Workers, Hospital and [...]