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Recognizing Red Flags for Organ Trafficking
0.1 - Recognizing Red Flags for Organ Trafficking: World Day Against Trafficking in Persons
Presenter: Benita Padilla, Lisa Burnapp, Gia Tomadze, Dominique Martin, , , Authors: Benita Padilla, Lisa Burnapp, Gia Tomadze, Dominique Martin, Thomas Mueller, Sanjay Nagral
Program Outline
Opening Remarks - Sanjay Nagral
Importance of Red Flags / Discuss Identified Red Flags - Benita Padilla
Case 1: Georgia - Gia Tomadze
Case 2: United Kingdom - Lisa Burnapp
Responding to Red Flags - Dominique Martin
Open Forum
Closing Remarks - Thomas Mueller
Objectives
To highlight the importance of recognizing red flags as a tool for preventing incidents of organ trafficking
To enumerate suggested red flags identified from the published literature and our crowdsourcing
To demonstrate specific examples when the recognition of red flags was successful in preventing a potential trafficking incident
To identify ways how clinicians and organizations can respondto red flags and how governments can utilize red flags into their policies and procedures
President, Georgian Association of Transplantologists
Professor, Tbilisi State Medical University
Tbilisi, Georgia
Gia Tomadze, M.D., Ph.D., FACS, is a Professor of Surgery in Tbilisi State Medical University, President of Georgian Association of Transplantologists and observer in the experts committee of CD-P-To, CoE. He is also the member of Transplant Council of the Ministry of Health of Georgia and Head of Transplant Commission in the National Academy of Sciences of Georgia.
Professor of Health Ethics and Professionalism
Deakin University, Geelong, Australia
Professor Dominique E. Martin, MBBS, BA(Hons. Phil.), PhD (Applied Ethics)
Dominique is Professor of Health Ethics and Professionalism in the School of Medicine at Deakin University in Australia, where she leads the Ethics, Law and Professionalism team. She is also an adjunct professor at the Australian Centre for Health Law Research (ACHLR) at QUT. Her research focuses on ethical issues in nephrology, organ and tissue donation, and transplantation, and on professionalism in healthcare. Her current projects are focused on international travel for organ transplantation; ethical issues in innovative research in donation and transplantation; and ethics education for kidney care professionals.
Dominique currently represents Oceania on the Council of the international Transplantation Society (TTS) and is co-chair of the Education Committee of TTS. An Associate Editor of Transplantation, she is also a member of the Doha International Academy for Organ Donation and has served as an ethics consultant to the World Health Organization and the Australian Organ and Tissue Authority. Dominique has previously served as co-chair of the Ethics Committee of TTS and of the Declaration of Istanbul Custodian Group.
Dr. Benita Padilla is a nephrologist who works at the National Kidney and Transplant Institute, the Philippines’ leading center for transplantation. In 2008, she was president of the Philippine Society of Nephrology and was a participant in the Istanbul Summit. In the ensuing years, she has continued to advocate for the ethical practice of transplantation and fight against organ trafficking in the Philippines. She is currently a member of the executive committee of the Declaration of Istanbul Custodian Group, a member of the WHO Task Force on Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues and co-chair of the Asian Society of Transplantation Ethics Committee.
Co-Chair Declaration of Istanbul Custodian Group
Senior Advisor Kidney SWT
Swisstransplant
Dr Mueller received his medical degree in Marburg, Germany. His postgraduate training included internal medicine, intensive care, nephrology and three postdoc years at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. From 2004 to 2013, he had a clinical appointment at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, with a research focus on gene expression in renal transplantation.
From 2014 to 2023, he was lead attending at the University Clinic in Zürich, with key responsibilities for the transplant program and national kidney paired exchange. In the last 2.5 years he served as interim Head of the Nephrology University Clinic. Currently he works as Co-Chair for the Declaration of Istanbul Custodian group, as Senior Advisor Kidney for Swiss Transplant and part-time in a private nephrology practice. His research includes molecular diagnostics in transplantation and renal functional reserve testing.
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