
Symposium 2025
Exercise is Medicine
Programma
Saturday February 22nd
Physical Exercise in Transplantation: Current Evidence Session chairs
Amaryllis Van Craenenbroeck, Antwerp University Hospital & Tom Mercer, Queen Margaret University, UK
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The Role of Physical Activity after Transplantation: Feasibility and Health-Related Outcomes
Alessandro Nanni Costa, National Italian Transplant Centre, IT
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Quality of Life after Solid Organ Transplantation: the Role of Physical Activity
Sandra Oeyen, Ghent University Hospital, BE
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How to Monitor Physical Activity in the Transplant Population
Thierry Troosters, KU Leuven, BE
How to Move Forward
Stefan Berger, University Medical Center Groningen, NL & Véronique Cornelissen, KU Leuven, BE
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Facilitators and Barriers in Physical Activity after Transplantation
Edwin van Adrichem, University Medical Center Groningen, NL
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Why Prescribe Exercise as Medicine in the Clinical Care of Type 2 Diabetes? We Have a Pill for That!
Mathias Ried-Larsen, Centre of Inflammation and Metabolism, DK
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Improving Physical Fitness in Transplant Recipients: What Can We Learn from Pro Athletes?
Peter Hespel, KU Leuven, BE
Physical Exercise: Friend or Foe?
Michel De Pauw, Ghent University Hospital, BE & Jean-Claude Verdier, Institut Coeur Effort Santé Paris, FR
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Cardiovascular Events after Transplantation: Potential Pitfalls of Screening & Prevention
Kaat Goetschalckx, University Hospitals Leuven, BE
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The Continuum of Pre- and Post-transplant Physical Activity
Patrick Calders, Ghent University Hospital, BE
Interactive Seminars on Physical Activity throughout the Different Phases of Organ Transplantation
Stefan De Smet, Transplantoux, BE
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Training in the Pre-Transplantation Period
Sharlene Greenwood, King’s College Hospital, UK
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Early Physical Activity and Mobilisation after Transplantation
Beatrix Clerckx, University Hospitals Leuven, BE
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Training after Hospital Discharge
Rainer Gloeckl, Schön Klinik Berchtesgadener Land, DE
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Training for Performance in the Stable Transplant Recipient
Jonas Vanbekbergen, Transplantoux, BE
Train the Trainee: the Real Life
Lieven Dupont, University Hospitals Leuven, BE & Colin White, European Transplant & Dialysis Sports Federation, HU/World Transplant Games Federation, UK
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Together to Get There, the Road to the World Transplant Games 2017
Erik Hulzebos, University Medical Center Utrecht, NL and Bas van den Hoven, NL
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Transplantoux: What Have We Learned?
Evi Masschelein, ETH Zurich, CH
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The Role of the WTGF in Physical Activity after Transplantation
Chris Thomas, World Transplant Games Federation, AU
