The 'Transplant Coordination Professional Certificate', a six-week online course hosted by the MOHAN Foundation from January 3 - February 15, 2025 was recently completed with success. A total of 59 candidates from India signed up for the online course.
The important elements of the course consisted of the following:
- Access to the e-learning platform with study materials and resources
- Online assignments and assessments to reinforce learning
- Weekly interactive webinars including professionals in organ donation and transplantation
The webinars covered the essential topics pertaining to:
- Orientation and basic concepts of organ donation and transplantation
- The regulatory framework governing organ donation and transplantation in India
- The documentation process, consent requirements, and the legal guidelines that must be followed to ensure compliance in organ donation
- Brainstem death - Concept, identification and Certification
- Coordinating a deceased donor transplant program
- Role of a transplant coordinator in living organ donation
- Ethical aspects of organ donation and transplantation
- Approaching donor families: the role of counselling
The faculty for the courses were:
- Dr. Sunil Shroff, Managing Trustee, MOHAN Foundation
- Ms. Lalitha Raghuram, Country Director, MOHAN Foundation
- Ms. Sujatha Suriyamoorthi, Associate Director - Courses, MOHAN Foundation
- Ms. Poonam Sharma, Curriculum Coordinator, MOHAN Foundation
- Dr. R. Raghavendran, Director & Professor, Institute of Neurosurgery, Madras Medical College, Chennai
- Mr. Yuvaraj Boopathi, Senior Manager Operations, Transplant services
Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad
- Mr. Haider Ali Khan, Liver Transplant Coordinator & Grief Counsellor, CARE Hospitals, Hyderabad
The candidates were issued a course completion certificate on successful completion of the online examination that was held on February 15, 2025.
Feedback:
Mr. Adisha S Aadhi
Junior executive, Sri Venkateshwara medical College hospital and research centre, Pondicherry
“I am really thankful to the MOHAN FOUNDATION organisation for giving me this wonderful opportunity. The course of transplant coordinators training was a full-time engagement for me. The faculties involved in the training were very well influential and the knowledge that they imparted is surely going to help me in my career as a transplant coordinator. It was a great learning experience. Though being from non-medical background, it was not difficult for me to understand the classes. It was just perfectly organized. MOHAN Foundation is doing great work in training individuals in this profession of gifting lives.”
Mrs. Chellammal Ravichandiran
Secretary, Department of Cardiology Sri Venkateshwara Medical College Hospital and Research Centre, POndicherry
“Thank you so much MOHAN Foundation for an amazing course!
You had done an excellent job by providing lectures of world class surgeons around the globe for each and every topic. The course materials are both comprehensive and informative. I learned so much and you made even the more complex topics interesting and easier to follow through real-world stories and case studies. The course elaborately explained about how to approach the donor, the time limit in retrieval and distribution of organs, coordinating with Government officials, successful transplantation, post transplantation care, etc.
Thank you once again for the wonderful weekly webinars.”
