MSN and Registered Nurse
National Coordinator, Project Manager, NOD-Lb
Founder, President Middle East Transplant Coordinators Organization (METCO)

Farida Younan, RN, BSN, MS. I started my career a head nurse of hemodialysis unit, and coordination of the 1st kidney transplant department in Lebanon, then implement the 1st peritoneal dialysis unit in Lebanon. In 2009, I was assigned par the MOH, National Coordinator at the National Organization for Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation (NOD-Lb) to implement a unified organ and tissue donation and transplantation program.

I am a founding member of an NGO “ALDOR” to promote organ donation and founding President of the Middle East Transplant Coordinators Organization (METCO) and recently founding vice-President of the Lebanese Association for Nephrology Nurses (LANN).

• Chair of the Allied Health Committee – TTS
• Organ Procurement Consultant at Kuwait Organ Procurement Center (KOPC)
• Membership in professional organizations: EDTA, ETCO, ESOT, TTS, ISN, MESOT, ISODP and at National level member in Nursing Alumni – USJ.

I have participated in many researches and Publications on renal transplantation, immunology, patient and donor and family’s education, organ donation brochures for general public and health professionals. Organizing and participating in the training and continuous

In 2000, I included the organ donation and Transplantation coordination to the Middle with the TPM of Barcelona-Spain and the DTI, and organized for the MESOT area many TPM courses in Lebanon (2000-2010) I implemented the Lebanese Organ Donation and Transplantation system in cooperation with AECID and DTI (SUESA project) 2010-2013. I have participated in international research in kidney transplant immunology and has many publications in organ donation and transplantation.

Technical Director, BeCytes Biotechnologies (University of Barcelona)
Barcelona, Spain

Estephan Arredondo BS, Msc, is a biologist specialized in Organ, Tissues and Cell Donation from the University of Barcelona. He is currently Technical Director and Cofounder of Cytes Biotechnologies. He also acts as co-chair at the Allied Health Group of the Transplantation Society.

His studies are based on how to develop networks to procure human tissue for research and isolation of human liver cells. He has been involved in several European projects related to international cooperation in organ donation such as the Black Sea Area andMiddle East.

Transplantation Coordinator
Expert in the Ministry of Health Belgium for Organs

Luc Colenbie, RN, BSN, ECTC, began working in intensive care in 1983 and has been a transplant coordinator at Ghent University Hospital since 1993. Appointed as an expert at the Ministry of Public Health for organ donation in 2011. Past president of the section Belgian coordinators and a former member of the OPC Eurotransplant and the financial committee Eurotransplant. Member of the Belgian Transplantation Society and secretary of the national transplantation council. He is a member of the High Health Council in Belgium and acts as a lecturer and speaker at various national and international conferences and organizations related to donation. Contributed to various papers and abstracts on the subject of donation and transplantation. Served as coordinator for the first face transplant in Belgium, conducting both the family discussion and outlining the procedure.

Physiotherapist, Department of Physiotherapy, Western Health,
Footscray 3011, Victoria, Australia;
PhD Candidate, Department of Physiotherapy,
School of Primary and Allied Health Care,
Faculty of Medicine Nursing and Health Science, Monash University,
Frankston 3199, Victoria, Australia

Cassandra Raios, BPhysio, BSc, is a Physiotherapist at Western Health in Melbourne, Australia and a current PhD candidate at Monash University. Cassandra’s doctoral research has explored the role of physiotherapy in the care of patients who are potential lung donors in the critical care setting.

Ana López Lazcano ClinPsyD, PhD.
Senior Especialist at the Health Psychology Section
Psychiatry and Psychology Department, Hospital Clinic of Barcelona

Ana López-Lazcano is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist. She completed her clinical training (PIR specialty) at Bellvitge University Hospital, and got her PhD at the University of Barcelona. She works at Hospital Clinic of Barcelona since 2009. She works at the Health Psychology Section of Psychiatry and Psychology Department (Institute of Neurosciences). She has collaborated in several papers and research projects. Her clinical and research interests currently focus on psychotherapy for people undergoing liver, kidney and pancreas transplantation.