Webinars
This webinar series explores a variety of topics related to organ and tissue donation, as well as transplantation.
The Commonwealth Tribute to Life webinar series stems from one of the main pillars of the project: the sharing of knowledge and expertise.
The webinars are led by experts from all corners of the Commonwealth and provide a platform for learning and the development of organ donation and transplantation programmes.
Select a category to see related webinars:
Changing donation culture
Hear speakers Dr Dale Gardiner (UK) and Dr Sunil Shroff (India) outline the key steps NHSBT and the MOHAN foundation have undertaken to change donation culture in their countries.
Death determination
Professor Sam Shemie (Medical Advisor, Canadian Blood Services and internationally recognised expert on the determination of death) and Dr David Thomson (lead author of the 2021 South African guidelines on the determination of death) lend their expertise, and discuss the topic in a panel discussion.
Donor coordinator role of donation Nurses
Donor coordinators Jill Featherstone (UK), Pallavi Kumar (India) and Yoni Hope-Hodgetts (Australia) present updates on their work in making donation happen across the commonwealth. Join us after their updates for a panel discussion, chaired by Alison Hodack (Australia) and Olive McGowan (UK).
Opt-out legislation
This webinar takes on the topic of donation legislation with presentations from two experts in this field. Lucinda Barry and Helen Opdam (Australia) chair a panel discussion with Claire Williment (UK) and Stephen Beed (Canada).
Education
In this webinar, we hear from speakers Dr David Thomson (South Africa) and Dr Sunil Shroff (India). This session, chaired by Dr Ben Ivory (UK) and Ms Cathy Miller (UK), explores the topic of the education of organ donation and transplantation, with a focus on clinical training.
Donation Physicians and Clinical Leads
Watch presentations from Dr Andrew Healy (Canada), Dr Helen Opdam (Australia), Dr Dale Gardiner (UK) and Dr Waqas Akhtar (UK), followed by a discussion chaired by Dr David Thomson (South Africa). They explore the responsibility of these specific organ donation clinical roles and their importance within their organ donation systems.
Starting a sustainable transplantation program
Hear from speakers Dr Jennie Jewitt-Harris (CEO and Founder of Transplant Links Community) and Dr Margaret O'Shea (Consultant General and Renal transplant surgeon and Lecturer in Surgery) to learn how Barbados built its living kidney donation program from scratch.
Living kidney donation
In this webinar, experts Dr Nerissa Jurawan (Barbados) and Dr Peter Hughes (Australia) do a deep dive into the topic of living kidney donation programmes.
Transplant immunology laboratories
In this webinar, Prof David Briggs (UK), Consultant Clinical Scientist at NHSBT, and Prof Dolly Daniel (India), from Christian Medical College Vellore, discuss the complexities of setting up and running Transplant Immunology Laboratories.
Transplant registries
This webinar focuses on transplant registries, with experts Steve McDonald (Australia) and Lisa Mumford (UK) presenting their work on this topic followed by a panel discussion, chaired by Sanjay Agarwal (India) and Margaret O'Shea (Barbados).
Preventing unethical transplantation
In this webinar we delve into the complex topic of preventing unethical transplantation across the Commonwealth. Dominique Martin (Australia) and Sanjay Nagral (India) present their perspectives, followed by Sunil Shroff (India) and David Shaw (UK) chairing a panel discussion on the topic.
Corneal donation and transplantation
Hear speakers Dr Gullapalli Nageswara Rao (ophthalmologist, chairman of the Academia Ophthalmologica Internationalis and founder of the L. V. Prasad Eye Institute, India) and Mr Kyle Bennett (Assistant Director, Tissue and Eye Services at NHSBT, UK) share their expertise in the field of corneal donation and transplantation.
Skin banking
In this webinar we focus on the topic of tissue banking, where our speakers explore how to start and maintain a skin bank, the benefits, challenges, and how skin banks differ in different countries.
National campaigns
In this webinar, speakers Ms Brianna Elms from Australia and Ms Holly Mason from the UK share their experiences on how they built and ran national campaigns.
Regionally focused campaigns
In this webinar, listen to Ms Catherine McKeowan (Northern Ireland) and Dr Avnish Seth (India) discuss their experiences, successes and challenges in setting up regionally focussed promotional campaigns.
Honouring deceased donors
Dale Gardiner (UK) and Hassina Mohammed (Trinidad) chair a celebration of the incredible gift of deceased organ donation, with insights from Rachel Stoddard-Murden (UK), Hospital Art Studio (UK), Tina Coco (Australia), Lalitha Raghuram (India), Jenny Ryan (Canada) and Anja Meyer (South Africa).
Community engagement (the UK model)
Catherine Butler (Canada) and Suzanne Roe (UK) chair this webinar looking at community engagement, with panellists Kirit Modi and Katy Portell discussing their extensive experience in this field.
Transplant Sport
For the final webinar before the Commonwealth Games, we ran a special webinar dedicated to transplant sport. Listen to experts Dr James Neuberger, Mr Yuri Matischen and Ms Holly Jones as they showcase the UK Transplant Games, and the benefits of sport for transplant recipients.
Two Nation Focus: The national organ donation and transplantation system in Singapore and Sri Lanka
This special focus edition of the Commonwealth Tribute to Life webinar series invites Sally Kong (National Organ Transplant Unit, Singapore) and Ashani Rathnakeerthi (York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals, UK) to discuss the specifics of the transplantation journey in Singapore and Sri Lanka respectively. Following this, Tan Chee Kiat, Dale Gardiner and Vajira Dissanayake will join for a panel discussion taking questions from the audience.
Commonwealth Tribute to Life project launch event
On March 14th 2022, the Commonwealth Tribute to Life project officially launched, bringing together regional coordinators, supporting organisations and the international organ donation and transplantation community.
