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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

 

  • The Role of Physical Activity after Transplantation: Feasibility and Health-Related Outcomes

Alessandro Nanni Costa, National Italian Transplant Centre, IT

  • Quality of Life after Solid Organ Transplantation: the Role of Physical Activity​​

Sandra Oeyen, Ghent University Hospital, BE

  • 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

 

  • Facilitators and Barriers in Physical Activity after Transplantation

Edwin van Adrichem, University Medical Center Groningen, NL

  • 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

  • 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

 

  • Cardiovascular Events after Transplantation: Potential Pitfalls of Screening & Prevention

Kaat Goetschalckx, University Hospitals Leuven, BE

  • 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

  • Training in the Pre-Transplantation Period  

Sharlene Greenwood, King’s College Hospital, UK

  • Early Physical Activity and Mobilisation after Transplantation

Beatrix Clerckx, University Hospitals Leuven, BE

  • Training after Hospital Discharge

Rainer Gloeckl, Schön Klinik Berchtesgadener Land, DE

  • 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

  • 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

  • Transplantoux: What Have We Learned?

Evi Masschelein, ETH Zurich, CH

  • The Role of the WTGF in Physical Activity after Transplantation

Chris Thomas, World Transplant Games Federation, AU

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