| Dear ESOT Members, 
 We would like to draw your attention to an invitation by the Centre for Postgraduate Professional Education of King's College London to register for the 2nd National Course on Living Donor Transplantation, which will be held on Monday and Tuesday March 6-7, 2006, in the "Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom.
 
 As ESOT endorses this initiative you will find the Announcement for the 2nd National Course attached.
 For information and registering you may contact:
 Adam Stansbie
 Courses Administrator
 Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
 Centre for Postgraduate Professional Education Sherman Education Centre Guy's Hospital
 Tel: 020 7188 5192 (direct line)
 Fax: 020 7401 8591
 Email: adam.stansbie@kcl.ac.uk
 
 Program:
 09:00
 Laparoscopic and robotic donor surgery
 Live videolink to theatre
 Nizam Mamode
 
 09:50
 Marginal donors and recipients
 James Gloor, Mayo Clinic
 
 10:20
 Pancreatic living donation
 
 11:05
 Living liver donation
 Nigel Heaton
 
 11.35
 Antibody removal: desensitisation and blood group incompatible transplantation
 James Gloor
 
 12:00
 Stem cells in living donor transplantation
 Paul Shields, Senior Lecturer in Surgery, Western Infirmary, Glasgow
 12:25
 Paired donation
 Bernadette Haase, Director, Dutch Transplant Foundation
 
 12:55
 Lunch
 
 13:45
 Living donation in Scandinavia
 Jonas Wadström
 
 14:05
 Paid living donation
 Iraj Fazel, President, Iranian Academy of Medical Sciences
 
 14:35
 New developments in living donation; changing the rules
 Chris Rudge
 
 15:20
 Panel discussion ~ How best to increase living donation - paired, blood group incompatible or non-directed?
 Chris Rudge, Bernadette Haase, James Gloor, Jonas Wadstrom, Iraj Fazel
 
 16:00
 Closing remarks
 Nizam Mamode
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