Dr. David Paredes

Consultant 1
Hospital Clinic. Donation And Transplant Coordination Section.
Spain

Consultant Donation and Transplantation Institute (DTI) Foundation.
Fellow of the European Board of Surgery (Transplant Coordination) by the UEMS. Specialist in Nephrology, working as Consultant 1 in the Donation and Transplant Coordination Section, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona. Associate Professor, Surgical Department, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.

Have been actively related since 2013 with the European Society of Organ Transplantation (ESOT). During these years, he has been appointed as Chair and Board Member of the European Donation and Transplant Coordination Section of ESOT. Active participant of the ESOT Group for the Transplant Learning Journey (TLJ2021) in Milan about Normothermic Regional Perfusion use on Donation after Circulatory Death.

Active research and work in deceased donation with both type of donors: Donors after brain death (DBD) and donors after circulatory death (DCD). Work related with donor and organ evaluation, donor management, family approach, organ suitability and procurement. Additional research in organ preservation and ischemia reperfusion injury, active member of the group who described the technique of Normothermic Regional Perfusion for organ preservation in DCD cases and expanded criteria donor and organ ex-vivo renal machine preservation.

Also actively related with the Kidney and Liver Transplant Units in the Hospital Clinic living donor program as Donor Advocate and member of the living donor group of the National Transplant Organization (ONT), Spain.