Third WHO Global Consultation on Organ Donation and Transplantation: Striving to Achieve Self-Sufficiency, March 23-25, 2010, Madrid, Spain

摘要

The Third World Health Organization (WHO) Global Consultation on Organ Donation and Transplantation was organized by the WHO, The Transplantation Society (TTS), and the Organizacion Nacional de Tras-plantes (ONT). The partnership among the three organizations made the best of their complementarities, and the utmost recognition and gratitude go to Rafael Matesanz (Director, ONT), Beatriz Dominguez-Gil (Medical Officer, ONT), Jeremy Chapman (President, TTS), and Francis Delmonico (Director of Medical Affairs, TTS) for their respective roles in advancing this significant and industrious collaboration. The main goal of the Consultation was to discuss the concept of national self-sufficiency in organ donation and transplantation and to outline strategies by which this goal might be achieved.