V International Conference DONARTE 2026

Visit to the Regional Museum, free entrance for the whole day on Sunday 4 October, the first Sunday of the month.

• Canoe Transplant Games with Rowing Club Peloro at the Ganzirri lakes in Messina (rowing for organ donation awareness)

• The Director of the Italian Transplant Centre, the Presidents of AIDO and the associations meet the UNIME students

  Giuseppe Feltrin, CNT Director · Giorgio Battaglia, CRT Director · Flavia Petrin, AIDO President · Salvatrice Feccia, AIDO Regional President · Associations and faculty present

Registration

• 15:00–15:05

  Welcome message from the Rector of the University of Messina

  Giovanna Spatari, Rettrice, Università degli Studi di Messina

• 15:05–15:30

  Institutional greetings from the Mayor of Messina, Archbishop of Messina, Director AOU G. Martino, Director CRT Sicilia, Medical Director ISMETT, AIDO National and Regional Presidents, associations, and other authorities present

Moderators · Giuseppe Navarra (Messina) · Pasquale Aragona (Messina) · Deepak Gupta (India) · Anna Teresa Mazzeo (Italy)

• 15:30–15:50

  Organ donation and transplantation: landmarks reached and vision for the future

  Giuseppe Feltrin, Director CNT, Italy

• Nicholas Special Lecture

  15:50–16:10

  • The surgeon's gaze is one that sees more than skin. Sculpting a head

    Nadey Hakim, London, UK · President TTS

• Rolly Special Lecture

  16:10–16:30

  • Early post liver transplantation changes in immunometabolic profile

    Didier Payen, Emeritus Professor, Université Paris Cité Sorbonne, Paris

• Iacopo Special Lecture

  16:30–16:45

  • The DCD best practices today

    Marti Manyalich, Spain · President DTIRemote

• All Donors Special Lecture

  16:45–17:00

  • Art and healing

    Richard Woodward, Director, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, USARemote

5 min each

Moderators · Elvira Amata (Dir. Gen. AOU G. Martino) · Maria Felicita Crupi (Dir. Amm. IRCCS Bonino Pulejo) · Catena Di Blasi (Dir. Gen. AOU Papardo) · Massimo Cardillo (Dir. NIT, Milano) · Giorgio Battaglia (Dir. CRT, Catania)

• Testimonial from the mother of a donor: the “La Stanza di Iacopo” project

  Fausta Tocchio, Donating mother

• Testimonial from the recipient of an emergency gift, two weeks after becoming a mother

  Miriam La Spada, Recipient

• Testimonial from the girl who became a grandmother, thirty years after receiving the gift

  Maria Pia Pedalà, The girl who became a grandmother

Coffee break

12 min each

Moderators · Harjinder Singh Bhatoe (India) · Iolanda Russo Menna (VCU) · Mathew Joseph (India) · Giovanni Raimondo (Messina)

• From knowledge to impact: how DTI strengthens donation systems, connects communities and expands opportunity

  Sergi Padilla, Spain

• From death to donation: the physiology of organ donation

  Alberto Zanella, Milano

• Access to kidney transplantation. Is it fair?

  Roberto Cacciola, Messina

• Ethical principles of human organ allocation and equity of access

  Lucia Craxì, Palermo

• New programs to improve transplantation odds for high sensitized kidney recipients

  Massimo Cardillo, Milano

• Liver transplantation: evolution and outcomes from a Mediterranean center

  Salvatore Gruttadauria, ISMETT, Palermo

• Integrating artificial intelligence and liquid biopsy for enhanced post-transplant monitoring

  Natalia Malara, Catanzaro

• DARte: museum educational project to increase awareness on organ donation. Preliminary results

  Ernesto Duarte Buzon, Mexico

• Health diplomacy and organ donation: building bridges across cultures to save lives

  Bassam Darwish, UAE

Faculty walking welcome buffet at the conference venue

Public awareness event: artistic performances and the Premio DONARTE 2026 award ceremony, in the Cortile del Rettorato of the University of Messina.