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Dr. Astrid Lobo Gajiwala
Dr. Astrid Lobo Gajiwala was appointed as the first Director of the Regional cum State Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation (ROTTO-SOTTO), Western Region and Maharashtra. Under her leadership this organisation won the Best SOTTO and Best ROTTO award for 2019-2020.
Dr. Lobo Gajiwala founded India’s first Tissue Bank at the Tata Memorial Hospital (TMH) in 1988, at a time when tissue banks were relatively unknown. In 2004 she initiated and coordinated the ISO 9001:2000 certification of the TMH Tissue Bank’s quality management systems, a first in Asia, earning the bank a place in the Limca Book of Records. The Bank is also the first to be registered under The Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Act, 1994.
Appointed by the Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India, to represent India as the National Project Co-coordinator for Tissue Banking for a Inter-regional project of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), United Nations, Dr. Lobo Gajiwala contributed to the development the IAEA Standards for Tissue Banking, a curriculum for an IAEA Diploma in Tissue Banking, Strategies for Creating Public and Professional Awareness of Tissue Banking, and the IAEA Code of Practice for the Radiation Sterilisation of Biological Tissues. This project covered the Asia-Pacific Region, Latin America, Africa and Europe.
In 2004 she was appointed as Tutor for the 1st International Internet Training Course for Tissue Banking conducted by the IAEA and the National University Hospital, Singapore.
Dr. Lobo Gajiwala was the first Indian and the first woman to be elected as President of the Asia Pacific Association of Surgical Tissue Banks (APASTB) and represented it in the World Union of Tissue Banking Associations (WUTBA). She was a member of the drafting committee of the 2016 APASTB Standards and continues to be a member of the Ethics Committee of the WUTBA.
In 2006, to promote tissue banking in India and so enhance patient care, she conducted India’s first and only multidisciplinary International Conference on Tissue Banking which hosted over 200 delegates from India, Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, Latin America and USA.
Dr. Lobo Gajiwala has been a member of the Governing Council of the Zonal Transplant Coordination Centre (ZTCC), and a founding member and Executive Secretary of the Deceased Donor Transplantation Network (NDTN), a federation of government and non-governmental organisations formed to advocate for organ and tissue donation.
She was invited as an Expert on Tissue Banking by the Parliamentary Standing Committee, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, on several occasions, to make recommendations for amendments to The Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994, and subsequently to draw up Rules for their implementation.
She has been featured in a special issue of India Today, "Game-changers: ideas
that can create far reaching change in a particular field", and the book Women in Leadership: Success Stories from Around the Globe.
Dr. Lobo Gajiwala founded India’s first Tissue Bank at the Tata Memorial Hospital (TMH) in 1988, at a time when tissue banks were relatively unknown. In 2004 she initiated and coordinated the ISO 9001:2000 certification of the TMH Tissue Bank’s quality management systems, a first in Asia, earning the bank a place in the Limca Book of Records. The Bank is also the first to be registered under The Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Act, 1994.
Appointed by the Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India, to represent India as the National Project Co-coordinator for Tissue Banking for a Inter-regional project of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), United Nations, Dr. Lobo Gajiwala contributed to the development the IAEA Standards for Tissue Banking, a curriculum for an IAEA Diploma in Tissue Banking, Strategies for Creating Public and Professional Awareness of Tissue Banking, and the IAEA Code of Practice for the Radiation Sterilisation of Biological Tissues. This project covered the Asia-Pacific Region, Latin America, Africa and Europe.
In 2004 she was appointed as Tutor for the 1st International Internet Training Course for Tissue Banking conducted by the IAEA and the National University Hospital, Singapore.
Dr. Lobo Gajiwala was the first Indian and the first woman to be elected as President of the Asia Pacific Association of Surgical Tissue Banks (APASTB) and represented it in the World Union of Tissue Banking Associations (WUTBA). She was a member of the drafting committee of the 2016 APASTB Standards and continues to be a member of the Ethics Committee of the WUTBA.
In 2006, to promote tissue banking in India and so enhance patient care, she conducted India’s first and only multidisciplinary International Conference on Tissue Banking which hosted over 200 delegates from India, Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, Latin America and USA.
Dr. Lobo Gajiwala has been a member of the Governing Council of the Zonal Transplant Coordination Centre (ZTCC), and a founding member and Executive Secretary of the Deceased Donor Transplantation Network (NDTN), a federation of government and non-governmental organisations formed to advocate for organ and tissue donation.
She was invited as an Expert on Tissue Banking by the Parliamentary Standing Committee, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, on several occasions, to make recommendations for amendments to The Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994, and subsequently to draw up Rules for their implementation.
She has been featured in a special issue of India Today, "Game-changers: ideas
that can create far reaching change in a particular field", and the book Women in Leadership: Success Stories from Around the Globe.