The society was created with the main mission of unifying the Latin American and Caribbean region for educational, research and practical purposes, bringing together all professionals who practice any activity related to organ transplantation and who have contributed their work to the improving the knowledge or practice of organ transplantation.
Goals and targets are:
- To contribute to the diffusion and optimization of knowledge related to organ transplants, through congresses, meetings, publications, etc.
- Represent democratically all Latin American countries
- Assist in the development of new transplant programs in different countries
- Help to optimize the results in the region, identifying success factors within the different national environments
- Promote ethical transplantation standards in all countries
- Promote universal laws
- Form groups for international collaborative studies
- Share education and research
- Develop guides that allow the sharing of antisera and deoxyribonucleic acids of histocompatibility, as well as to compare the immunogenic profiles
- Develop guides to share organs and tissues for transplantation
- Disseminate information on the transplantation activity in our region to the regional and world bodies, with emphasis on the publication of information in the world literature
- Develop a Latin American Transplant Registry, also promoting other records of information, including, but not limited to, up-to-date records of education and training laws and programs, directory, kidney and tumor pathology records, pregnancies, project catalogs , catalogs of publications and transplant books, web page and information exchange with transplant records from other parts of the world
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