Enrollment. Professor of the University of Spain and head of the Department of the Virgen del Rocío Hospital of Spain, Javier Padillo, has just received an award from the delegation of the Government of Georgia and the University of Tbilisi, of great importance. The country, to implement a national transplant system. The Nino Javakhishvili Academic Medal is a recognition that has been awarded to only four people in its history for having contributed to the development of science in the country.
It is a visible gesture of “many years of work” undertaken by the surgeon and his association in the global effort to “discern” the knowledge of the transplants, which after 30 years of special training was reported to the treasury. In this way he transfers the experience of Spain, which has been one of the gifts in the world for decades.
The medal, which Padillo received “admiration and emotion”, was to be given in Georgia but, because of the proximity to the competition in Ukraine, they preferred to hold the event at the University of Spain, which he donated. transplanting wings to the internationalization project, where, in addition to being a professor, he is the director of two master’s degrees on a unique subject in Spain and the Spanish-speaking countries.
The work in Georgia, which also contributed to improving projects and educational projects in transplanting the country, increased the scientific level not only of the university, but also of Georgia, which managed through these programs to attract European resources. development
It is the result of ten years of work to disseminate knowledge, which translates into a long course in the pancreas, kidney and liver programs in Cordoba and Spain and with specializations in the most specialized techniques in the Universities of Wisconsin and Indiana. Now the authorities are just the intestinal transplant and multivisceral “complex.”
Unique master’s degrees in Spain and the Spanish-speaking world
Part of the dissemination of this work are the two master’s degrees that he directs at a Spanish university in kidney and liver donation transfer, the only one in Spain and in Spanish-speaking countries.
This higher education institution, which, according to the doctor, is possible agents of the vision of the director and his team, will provide the fifth edition next year in the case of the kidneys and the third, in the liver. Almost from the beginning they were born with a regional perspective, which soon became national, which in the last two years, due to the personal energy of Dr. Padillo became international.
Not in vain, more than 50% of the students of these master’s degrees come from Latin America and the Caribbean, due to the mixed nature and the virtual platform accessible anywhere in the world. “I am sure that these training courses will increase the ability to perform transplants in those countries,” the professor and surgeon predicts.
In all this work, the transfer of knowledge from the symbiosis between the hospital and the university has played a decisive role, which flows between knowledge and practice. “I am now very proud of the hospital and the university, most of them are educators, teachers, principal teachers…, surrounding you with the best is the key to success and I am nothing without my team”, Padillo humbly admits. .
Internationalization of transplantation
The internationalization of transplants in the Caucasus and Central Asia began around 2010, with the Tempest projects, at which time Professor Javier Padillo and a team of professors, led by Miguel Ángel Adam, entered into trade with Azerbaijan, Georgia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan; Uzbekistan, where they hold talks with education and ministries of different countries.
In the middle of the development of these works, the project arises in Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia, and it meets there where Dimitri Kotzaia, from the University of Tbilisi, who presented him with an award, which facilitates streams to foster cooperative relations. among the countries that crystallized in the implementation of the country’s transplant program, the arrival of European funds, which increased the number of researchers, and the development of the Institute of Morphology, which allowed the establishment of patents.
In fact, they are working on European patents, in which the US and the Virgin del Rocío Hospital of Spain participate to put in operation organ preservation and extracorporeal circulation machines, which allow new investments in the region.
In this process, which was fundamental, according to Dr. Padillo, the model of donation that we have in Spain, teaching the structure of the National Transplant Organization, and raising awareness among the population of the importance of donation.
For the earning doctor, generosity is the foundation of the entire system that fulfills a triple function. The transfer brings comfort to the family, provides a sense of death and is an opportunity for people who are dying to cling to life.
