Click on the links below to see te recordings, password T2M2026!

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Friday 6 February 2026​

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• Welcome by Stefan De Smet and Diethard Monbaliu

• Jennifer Lai (USA) -- Redefining transplant success: from organ function to whole person health"

• Sharlene Greenwood (UK) -- Pre- and rehabiliation in solid organ transplantation, the (new) evidence"

• Helge Krusemark -- A randomized, controlled, 12-month trial on the effects of an interdisciplinary treatment approach in ESRD patients: The Smart & Fit for Kidney Transplantation Trial (S&F4KTx)

• Duregon F. -- The effect of exercise prescription on functional parameters in solid organ transplant recipients: A multicenter study

• Véronique Cornelissen (BEL) -- Lessons learned from cardiology: lifestyle interventions for secondary prevention in solid organ transplant recipients

• Giorgos Sakkas (GRE) -- Future in motion: educating exercise scientists for clinical innovation

• Tiago Mota -- The impact of exercise professionals on the implementation of intradialytic exercise programmes

• Sofie Leunis -- From national policy to clinical practice: early experience with a structured prehabilitation and rehabilitation pathway in liver transplantation

• Wim Derave (BEL) - The exercise cure: the surprising science behind health-promoting physical activity

• Valentina-Totti (IT) -- Lifestyle intervention and gut microbiota: A new perspective for transplant recipients

• Salomé Declerck -- High subcutaneous adipose tissue density in cirrhotic liver transplant candidates is associated with frailty, malnutrition and sarcopenia

• Hashir Hussain -- Measurement properties evaluation of diaphragm thickening fraction in lung transplant candidates – a pilot study

• Maarten De Vos (BEL) -- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare as tool for prevention and cure: friend or foe?

• Marc de Reu (BEL) -- The marathon journey: What can we learn from/how to use AI to improve, tailor physcial activity, and training whilst minimizing injuries?

• Lieselotte Schoemaker -- Changes in physical activity in kidney, heart, liver and lung transplant recipients from pre to 10 years post-transplant: The prospective Swiss Transplant Cohort Study

• Marvery P. Duarte -- Association of diabetes with sarcopenia in patients on hemodialysis: a nationwide cross-sectional study

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Saturday 7 Feb 2026

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• Welcome and intro Diethard Monbaliu

• Fons (NDL) and Lieselotte (NDL) Schoemaker - From giving to Living and Crossing the Finish Line Together

• Tim Knobbe (NDL) - Research in Transplantation: 'Let’s focus on health-related quality of life'

• Yvonne van der Veen -- The impact of modifiable physical and psychological problems on frailty and quality of life in kidney transplant candidates: preliminary results of the PreCareTx-study

• Frederikke Tonnaer Liseth -- Long-term effects of high-intensity interval training vs moderate-intensity training after heart transplantation: project plan for a 10-year follow-up

• Eva Segura Ortiz (ESP) -- Effect of physical activity interventions in CKD and after kidney Tx, an update from the Cochrane review;

• Naomi Clyne (SWE) -- Why is exercise not integrated in treatment of patients with CKD and on KRT? - Results from the EUSUREX study

• Olaf Rivero (ESP) -- Exercise and prediabetes after renal transplantation, results from a prospective study

• João Viana (PRT) -- Prescribing and guiding exercise therapy before and after transplantation: do and dont’s

• Breakout 1: Screening, assesment and intervention in prehabiliation

  • Nutrition: N Pauwels (BEL) & Manou Schouteden (BEL)

  • Psychosocial aspects: Carine Poppe (BEL) & Ellen Foulon (BEL)

  • Physical fitness: L Schepers (BEL), M Segal (BEL), and Jaana Meiesaar (BEL)

  • Wout Van der Borght (BEL): 'Empowering Behavioral Health in Transplant Care, When ‘I Have To’ Becomes ‘I Want To’"

• Breakout 2: Rehabilitation 

  • Kaatje Goetschalckx (BEL): Value of Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing in Transplantation: From Risk Stratification to (P)Rehabilitation, a new golden standard?

  • Caroline Redant (BEL) - The role of the rehabiliation physician in the transplant trajectory

  • Kristel De Paepe, Frederik Lecointere, Manon 't Kint (BEL): Continued care post-lung and liver transplantation in an independent rehabiliation hospital

• Marzovillo Raffaella: Clinical and functional prehabilitation effects in patients undergoing major surgery

• Yuri Battaglia: Impact of interdialytic exercise training on miR-30b in hemodialysis: A longitudinal case–control study

• Sabina De Geest (BEL), Amaryllis Van Craenenbroeck (BEL), Stefan De Smet (BEL) - Lessons learned from the PHOENIX studies for next steps towards real-world translation using implementation science methods

• Diethard Monbaliu (BEL) - Time to move: Translating belief into evidence-based implementation