Tania Janaudis-Ferreira, McGill University, Montreal, CA & Alessandro Nanni Costa, Italian National Transplant Center, IT

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• Prehabilitation: better in, better out?

Eva Corpeleijn, UMC Groningen, NL

• Should we HIT it hard? The role of exercise intensity in physical rehabilitation in the stable transplant recipient

​Mariann Ulvestad, Oslo University Hospital, NO

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Platform presentations (2x10min)

• Physical fitness before and after liver transplantation: a longitudinal study

​Leen Schepers

• The effects of aerobic exercise on eGFR, blood pressure and VO2peak in patients with chronic kidney disease stages 3-4: A systematic review and meta-analysis

​Karsten Vanden Wyngaert

Michel De Pauw, Ghent University Hospital, BE & Amaryllis Van Craenenbroeck, Antwerp University Hopsital, BE

• Sarcopenia before and after solid organ transplantation: incidence, mechanisms, and consequences

​Manuela Merli, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

• The role of protein intake in muscle wasting, the link with organ failure and transplantation

​Jan Gunst, KU Leuven & University Hospitals Leuven, BE

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Platform presentations (2x10min)

• A combined physiotherapy and dietetics led group approach to promote lifestyle change and weight loss in pre and post kidney transplant donors and recipients

​Louise Kennedy

• Transplantee athlete training characteristics

​​Thomas Hames

Patrick Calders, Ghent University Hopsital, BE & Henri Leuvenink, UMC Groningen, NL

 

• Implementation science: making research findings more powerful for use in clinical practice

Sabina De Geest, University of Basel, Switzerland & KU Leuven, Belgium

 

• Patient and researcher: together in the driving seat to new evidence

Tania Janaudis-Ferreira, McGill University, Montreal, CA

 

• The role of the NGO / patient organisation as a partner in the promotion of sport / physical exercise post-transplant

 

Colin White, Secretary of the ETDSF, HU and Treasurer of the World Transplant Games Federation, UK & 

Judit Berente, ETDSF President, HU

• Effects of exercise training on the immune system

Nicolette Bishop, Loughborough University, UK

 

• Skeletal muscle as an endocrine organ: the role of exercise

Cora Weigert, University Hospital Tübingen, DE

 

Platform presentations (2x10min)

 

• Muscle strength and physical activity after HTX

Miek Hornikx

• Associations between the measures of physical function, risk of falls and the quality of life in haemodialysis patients: a cross-sectional study

Karsten Vanden Wyngaert

Marion Siebelink, UMC Groningen, NL & Harlinde Peperstraete, Ghent University Hospital, BE

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• Evaluation of exercise performance in children after solid organ transplantation or hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: time to move!

Kristof Vandekerckhove, Ghent University Hospital, BE

 

Platform presentations (2x10min)

 

• Lifestyle intervention in renal transplant recipients: a multicenter, randomized controlled trial

Eva Corpeleijn

 

• High intensity training after lung transplantation

Mariann Ulvestad

• The effects of living donation on my personal health and well-being

Jan Boeckx, Amival vzw, BE

 

• Transition to an active lifestyle after transplantation, it ain’t all sunshine!

Johan Put, University Hospitals Leuven, BE

 

• The road to the World Transplant Games

Bas van den Hoven, NL

 

• Transition from paediatric to adult health care: another summit to be reached?

Ruth De Bruyne, Ghent University Hospital, BE

Peter Sinnaeve, University Hospitals Leuven, BE & Lieven Dupont, University Hospitals Leuven, BE

• Inactivity as cause of impairment, exercise as treatment

Thierry Troosters, KU Leuven, BE

 

• Physical activity implementation after solid organ transplantation: barriers and facilitators in recipients and transplant physicians

Tania Janaudis-Ferreira, McGill University, Montreal, CA

 

• The economic cost of inactivity and the cost-effectiveness of health promotion through physical activity

Sonja Kahlmeier, Swiss Distance Learning University of Applied Science (FFHS), CH