Welcome to our first IPTA-VES - International Pediatric Transplant Association Virtual Education Symposium. This symposium is open to all members and trainees of the clinical and academic multi-disciplinary teams in pediatric transplantation. After many successful years of IPTA Fellow Meetings, we have arranged this teaching so it is available to all those skilled staff working with children and their families in the field of transplantation.
The International Pediatric Transplant Association (IPTA) Virtual Education Symposium is open to IPTA and TTS members.
This interactive symposium is over two half days on Thursday and Friday 14 and 15 November 2024, commencing with two separate streams for medics and for allied health and nursing professionals.
This is an educational symposium which aims to cover both basic and advanced subjects for all trainee and staff physicians and surgeons and as well as members of the allied health and nursing professionals, including psychosocial teams.
Abstracts will not be accepted unless conform to these guidelines.
Please submit abstracts, written in English with Arial font 10 in Word document with abstract title limited to 30 words (without abbreviations in title) and abstract length up to 500 words (including any pictures, charts or tables noting only one jpg picture, chart or table allowed) with up to five total authors.
Please state the presenting author and if this author is trainee physician / trainee surgeon / medical student / allied health professional / nursing professional / student nurse / student allied health professionals.
Please state category of abstract: kidney / liver / heart / lung / liver / stem cell / bone marrow / multi-organ / ethics / psychosocial.
Please structure your abstract as Aims / Methods / Results / Conclusions.
IPTA and TTS members will be automatically pre-registered for this Symposium, so no need to register separately.
Please share the word about the VES with your colleagues!
Thursday, November 14, 2024 • 09:00–13:00 EST
Local time (Corresponding local time at your current location)
The duration of these sessions is scheduled for 4 hours.
To enable this Symposium to reach as wide an audience as possible, we would like to encourage all Trainees and Allied Health and Nursing Professionals to take this opportunity to join IPTA and receive one year’s free membership! You will be asked for one reference to prove your Trainee status. Please send this to membership@tts.org when submitting your application.
We would encourage new members to apply before Monday November 4 to enable your application to be processed ahead of the Symposium.
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