The first Online Student Congress ATATX2021 organized by Ataturk University transplantation student club was carried out online between 9-10 January with the theme "Multidisciplinary Approach Organ and Tissue Transplantation"  

18 speakers from 8 different specialties from Turkey and abroad and over a thousand students from 5 countries attended the first online congress organized by AtaTX, one of the student clubs of Atatürk University. In the congress, where oral and poster presentations were presented, students and all participants had the opportunity to listen to the most competent academicians in their field.

Ataturk University Organ Transplant Center Supervisor and Club Consultant, who made the opening speech of ATATX2021. Prof. Dr. Gürkan Öztürk said that they managed to maximize the awareness of the member students about organ transplantation and donation allowing them to participate in literature reviews and national organizations on the way which was set out to evaluate the causes of low organ donation rates in the region and find solutions to them 3 years ago.

"Awareness Activities of Our Club Have Affected Organ Donation"

Prof. Dr. Öztürk: “The impact of the awareness activities carried out by the AtaTX club on the increasing number of donations in our region cannot be ignored. Within the scope of these activities, we opened stands with our educated students in certain parts of the city. We held organ transplant webinar meetings for the awareness of our own students. We made promotions and organized national congresses with posters and printed masks during the organ transplant week of 3-9 November. The most important point in these activities is that these young doctors sincerely embrace this issue and try to research organ transplantation and donation without waiting for any return with their precious time they spare from their faculty density. We would like to thank Ömer Çomaklı as the AtaTx club, Rector of our University, who is always with us both financially and morally, in all our activities and organizations.

"It is a great happiness for us to increase the number of organ donations in our region"

Stating that they are happy to be organizing the First Online Student Congress during the congress preparation process and throughout the congress, Int. Dr. Cem Ercişli added: “Our habits have changed along with the conditions of this pandemic. Now, we are applying to new platforms to hold our scientific meetings. The acclimation process was difficult for all of us. AtaTX club members including Görkem Yenisoy, Yiğit Serdar Şimşek, Maide Ahsen Aydın, Altınay Daşdemir, Çağrı Daharlı, Elifnaz Demir, Hicret Ertekin, Bilge Şakiroğlu, Rümeysa Küçük, Erengül Kaynarpınar, Sıla Tiryaki, Zehra Demirel, Livanur Aras, Burak Zengin, Ahmet Yusuf Yılmaz and Hasan Kaymaz, have been working for more than three years to raise awareness about organ donation. "It is a great pleasure for us to see the increase in the number of organ donations in our region".

A large number of scientists from Turkey and abroad participated

Turkey's Organ Transplant Organizations Coordination Association President Prof. Dr. Uluğ Eldegez, Head of Tissue, Organ Transplantation and Dialysis Services Department of the Ministry of Health Dr. Fatih Kacıroğlu, Head of the Ministry of Health Liver Transplant Science Committee and Atatürk University Organ Transplant Center Founder Prof. Dr. Kamil Yalçın Polat, Prof. Dr. Şükrü Emre from Yale University, Prof. Dr. Mahmut Çarin from İstinye University, Prof. Dr. Funda Yılmaz Barbet from Ege University, Prof. Dr. Ömer Özkan and Prof. Dr. Bülent Aydınlı from Akdeniz University, Uludağ University Faculty of Medicine Dean Prof. Dr. Ekrem Kaya, Prof. Dr. Nazım Doğan, Prof. Dr. Fatih Alper and Assoc. Dr. Sadullah Keleş from Atatürk University, Prof. Dr. Aydın Deveci from Ondokuz Mayıs University, Prof. Dr. Erdal Yekeler and Assoc. Dr. Sinan Sabit Kocabeyoğlu from Ankara City Hospital,  and Assoc. Dr. Cem Tuğmen from İzmir Tepecik Education and Research Hospital  and Prof. Dr. Mehmet Şükrü Sever from Istanbul University made presentations in the congress.

At the transplantation congress, from liver transplantation to kidney transplantation and ethics, from heart transplantation to lung transplantation, from composite transplants to cornea transplantation, from small intestine to pancreatic islet cell transplantation, from organ donations and transplantation to organ perfusion systems during the Covid period, from Covid radiology to transplantation intancy and organ transplantation, Presentations on many subjects ranging from immunology to liver transplant pathology were presented.

The video presentations of the congress, which is organized with the theme of Organ and Tissue Transplantation with a Multidisciplinary Approach, can be accessed through atatxkongre.com.

CORPORATE COMMUNICATION DIRECTORATE - 20.01.2021