Programme
AFRAN Transplant and AFRAN Education & Training Committees
AFRAN ONLINE KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION COURSE
October 2025 – March 2026
Programme & Speakers
| Week/ Theme |
Date (all lectures at 5 pm GMT) |
Lectures | Speakers | Coordinators/ Moderators |
| Week 1: General Introduction to Kidney Transplantation |
Monday, October 6, 2025 |
1- History of Organ and Kidney Transplantation | Elhadjifary KA (Senegal) |
Rasha DARWISH |
| Thursday, October 9, 2025 |
2- Ethical, Legislative, and Regulatory Aspects of Kidney Transplantation: WHO Guidelines and the Istanbul Declaration | Thomas MUELLER (Switzerland) |
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| Week 2: Clinical Assessment of Kidney Transplant Candidates and Living Donors |
Monday, October 13, 2025 |
3- Indications and Contraindications of Kidney Transplantation and Preparation of the Recipient (Immunological Preparation Excluded) | Abdulhafid Ali SHEBANI (Libya) |
Gamal SAADI |
| Thursday, October 16, 2025 |
4- Living Donor: Evaluation and Follow-up After Donation | Davy IP MIN WAN (Mauritius) | ||
| Week 3: Immunology of Transplantation (1) |
Monday, October 20, 2025 |
5- Basic Immunology: HLA System, Immune Cells, and the Complement System | Lilia BERKANI (Algeria) |
Mouna HAMOUDA |
| Thursday, October 23, 2025 |
6- Mechanisms of Allorecognition and Physiopathology of Rejection | Imen SFAR (Tunisia) |
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| Week 4: Immunology of Transplantation (2) |
Monday, October 27, 2025 |
7- Immunological Preparation for Kidney Transplantation | Ahmed MOSTAFA (Canada) | Intissar HADDIYA |
| Thursday, October 30, 2025 |
8- Allograft Tolerance After Kidney Transplantation: Myth or Reality? | Medhat ASKAR (USA) |
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| Week 5: Live Zoom |
Monday, November 3, 2025 |
– Q/A – Clinical Cases |
Speakers for Lectures 1 to 8 |
Coordinators/ Moderators for Weeks 1 to 4 |
| Week 6: Deceased Donation and Organ Allocation in Kidney Transplantation |
Monday, November 10, 2025 |
9- Brain Death Diagnosis and Management of the Deceased Donor | Chloe BALLESTE (Spain) | Lissane SEIFU |
| Thursday, November 13, 2025 |
10- Basics of Organ Allocation Rules | Christian JACQUELINET (France) | ||
| Week 7: From Retrieval to Transplantation: Surgical Approaches and Complications |
Monday, November 17, 2025 |
11- Surgical Techniques and Complications of Organ Retrieval | Ahmed HALAWA (UK) | Mohamed Cherif TEHIR (Algeria) |
| Thursday, November 20, 2025 |
12- Surgical Techniques and Complications of Kidney Transplantation | Souad BENALLAL (Algeria) | ||
| Week 8: Immediate Post-Transplant Course |
Monday, November 24, 2025 |
13- Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury: Prevention Strategies and Consequences | Jean Paul SQUIFFLET (Belgium) | Wesley TULLEKEN |
| Thursday, November 27, 2025 |
14- Early Post-Transplant Management of the Recipient (Immunosuppressive Therapy Excluded) | Ebun BAMGBOYE (Nigeria) | ||
| Week 9: Immunosuppression (1) |
Monday, December1st, 2025 |
15- Immunosuppressive Agents: Introduction, Classification, Focus on Induction Agents | Wesley TULLEKEN (South Africa) |
Malcolm DAVIES (South Africa) |
| Thursday, December4, 2025 |
16- Immunosuppressive Agents: Focus on Maintenance Therapies | Maria KAMKUEMAH (Namibia) | ||
| Week 10: Live Zoom |
Monday, December 8, 2025 |
– Q/A – Clinical Cases |
Speakers for Lectures 9 to 16 |
Coordinators/ Moderators for Weeks 6 to 9 |
| Week 11: Immunosuppression (2) |
Monday, December 15, 2025 |
17- Immunosuppression Protocols and Individualization of Immunosuppressive Prescriptions After Kidney Transplantation | Gamal SAADI (Egypt) |
Khadidja HABCHI |
| Thursday, December 18, 2025 |
18- Therapeutic Drug Monitoring (TDM) of Immunosuppressants | Pierre MARQUET (France) | ||
| Weeks 12 and 13 | Holidays | |||
| Week 14: Histopathology of Kidney Allograft |
Monday, January 5, 2026 |
19- Histopathology of Kidney Allograft (1): Indications, Contraindications, Cellular Rejection and Other Lesions (Apart from Humoral Rejection) |
Rim GOUCHA (Tunisia) |
Mohamed Mongi BACHA |
| Thursday, January 8, 2026 |
20- Histopathology of Kidney Allograft (2): Banff Classification and Humoral Rejection |
Wessam ISMAIL (Egypt) | ||
| Week 15: Immunological Complications (1) |
Monday, January 12, 2026 |
21- Immunological Complications – Cellular Rejection: Mechanisms, Diagnosis and Treatment |
Lissane SEIFU (Ethiopia) | Lissane SEIFU |
| Thursday, January 15, 2026 |
22- Immunological Complications – Antibody-Mediated Rejection (ABMR): Mechanisms and Diagnosis |
Malcolm DAVIES (South Africa) |
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| Week 16: Immunologic Complications (2) and ABO-Incompatible Kidney Transplantation |
Monday, January 19, 2026 |
23- Immunological Complications – ABMR: Management |
Carmen LEFAUCHEUR (France) | Khadidja HABCHI |
| Thursday, January 22, 2026 |
24- ABO-Incompatible (ABOi) Kidney Transplantation | Lionel ROSTAING (France) | ||
| Week 17: Live Zoom |
Monday, January 26, 2026 |
– Q/A – Clinical Cases |
Speakers for Lectures 17 to 24 |
Coordinators/ Moderators for Weeks 11, 14, 15 and 16 |
| Week 18: Metabolic and Cardiovascular Complications |
Monday, February 2nd, 2026 |
25- Metabolic Complications After Kidney Transplantation | Herime FOUDA (Cameroon) | Mohammed ABDEL GAWAD |
| Thursday, February 5, 2026 |
26- Cardiovascular Complications After Kidney Transplantation | Intissar HADDIYA (Morocco) | ||
| Week 19: Infectious Complications (1) |
Monday, February 9, 2026 |
27- Infectious Complications After Kidney Transplantation: General Epidemiology and Bacterial Infections | Jacqueline SHOO (Tanzania) | Ebun BAMGBOYE |
| Thursday, February 12, 2026 |
28- Infectious Complications After Kidney Transplantation: Invasive Fungal Infections | Olivier LORTHOLARY (France) | ||
| Week 20: Infectious Complications (2) |
Monday, February 16, 2026 |
29- Viral Complications After Kidney Transplantation: Cytomegalovirus (CMV) and Common Viruses |
Mohamed Cherif TEHIR (Algeria) | David Martin ATUHE (Uganda) |
| Thursday, February 19, 2026 |
30- Viral Complications After Kidney Transplantation: BK Virus (BKV) and Hepatitis | Mouna HAMOUDA (Tunisia) | ||
| Week 21: Neoplastic Complications |
Monday, February 23, 2026 |
31- Cancer After Kidney Transplantation | Ignacio REVUELTA (Spain) | Nihal BASHIR |
| Thursday, February 26, 2026 |
32- Post-Transplantation Lymphoma Disease (PTLD) | Khadidja HABCHI (Algeria) | ||
| Week 22: Live Zoom |
Monday, March 2nd, 2026 |
– Q/A – Clinical Cases |
Speakers for Lectures 25 to 32 |
Coordinators/ Moderators for Weeks 18 to 21 |
| Week 23: Kidney Transplantation and Particular Populations |
Monday, March 9, 2026 |
33- Pregnancy and Kidney Transplantation | Mohamed Salah Eldin ZAKI (Egypt) |
Nihal BASHIR |
| Thursday, March 12, 2026 |
34- Specificities of Paediatric Kidney Transplantation | Philip CHEPTINGA (Kenya) | ||
| Week 24: Follow-Up After Kidney Transplantation |
Monday, March 16, 2026 |
35- Follow-up of the Kidney Transplant Recipient (Immunological Monitoring Excluded) | Mohamed Mongi BACHA (Tunisia) |
Mohammed ABDEL GAWAD |
| Thursday, March 19, 2026 |
36- Kidney Allograft Failure Management | Samir SALLY (Egypt) |
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| Week 25: Live Zoom |
Monday, March 23, 2026 |
– Q/A – Clinical Cases |
Speakers for Lectures 33 to 36 |
Coordinators/ Moderators for Weeks 23 and 24 |
| Week 26: Final Exam |
Monday, March 30, 2026 |
Final Exam | ||
| Pr Mohamed Mongi BACHA, Chair Dr Ebun BAMGBOYE, Co-Chair AFRAN Transplantation Committee |
Dr Robert KALYESUBULA, Chair Dr Nina DIANA, Co-Chair AFRAN Education & Training Committee |
| Pr Khadidja HABCHI, Coordinator Pr Elhadjifary KA, Coordinator AFRAN Online Kidney Transplantation Course AFRAN Transplantation Committee |
Dr Mohammed ABDEL GAWAD, Coordinator Dr Rasha DARWISH, Coordinator AFRAN Online Kidney Transplantation Course AFRAN Education & Training Committee |