The 2021 batch of the one-year online ‘Post Graduate Diploma in Transplant Coordination and Grief Counselling’ successfully completed their course in December 2021. A total of 34 participants from diverse professions from India and Botswana completed the course.

As part of the course, contact sessions were conducted virtually using the Zoom platform. The sessions focused on the counselling process, approaching grieving families for organ donation, soft skills for transplant coordinators, communication skills in healthcare management, resolving conflict and stress-proof oneself, transplant law in India, the role of a transplant coordinator in the deceased donation and living donor transplant coordination. The webinars also involved activities like quizzes and discussions that kept the participants engaged in the learning process.

The faculty for the webinars included

• Mr. K. Veerapandian (Consultant Psychologist and Assistant Professor of Psychology, Banyan Academy of Leadership in Mental Health, Chennai)
• Dr. Suryakumari (Founder and President, The Academy of Life and People Skills, Chennai)
• Mr. Naveen Nandigam (CEO, 3N Training, Hyderabad)
• Mr. Sivakumar (Assistant General Manager - Liver Transplant Unit,
• Dr. Rela Institute & Medical Centre, Chennai)
• Ms. Bhavana Shah (Sr. Executive - Administration & Transplant Coordinator, Wockhardt Hospitals, Mumbai).