Dear colleagues

The Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation is pleased to announce the establishment of the MESOT Fellowship Program of 1-2 years in duration for physicians and surgeons from the Middle East region willing to acquire some particular skills related to various aspects of organ transplantation.

The objective of this program is to promote and advance organ transplantation in under-served areas of this region of the world by helping them to establish local transplant programs or to improve an existing program.

A limited number of grants are available for the time being.

IMPORTANT NOTES:

• Specific questions about this application and/or the MESOT Fellowship Program should be directed to any member of the fellowship committee as noted below:



Name	E-mail
Bassam Saeed (Syria), Chairman	(bmsaeed2000@yahoo.com)
Ali Malek Husseini (Iran)	(transpln@sums.ac.ir)
Altaf Hashemi (Pakistan)	(hashmi.altaf@gmail.com)
Antoine Barbari (Lebanon)	(antoinebarbari@wise.net.lb)
Hamdi Karakayali (Turkey)	(drhamdi@baskent-ank.edu.tr)
Mustafa Mousawi (Kuwait)	(drmosawi@yahoo.com)



• The training will be in English and a reasonable knowledge of this language is necessary.
• This application for fellowship should be supported by the country representative in the society.
• The MESOT Transplantation Fellowship Program Committee will make the selection and nominate the accepted fellows and the respective centers where they will be trained.
• A grant of up to 10.000 US dollars can be offered from MESOT to each accepted fellow for the whole duration of his fellowship training program. The fellow will only be allowed to get the grant upon successful completion of his probationary period (starting the 4^th month).
• Duration of fellowship is one to two years depending on the curriculum and intensity of the training center fellowship program, with a probation period of 3 months.
• The fellow's activities during the fellowship need to be submitted to the "MESOT Fellowship Program committee" which will do a preliminary evaluation of the fellow's activities before referring to the MESOT council for concerted final decision about approving or possibly issuing a certification of graduation.
• Procedure shall be finalized upon approval by the MESOT council.

The application deadline is the 30th of June of each year

Individual interested in this training program should direct their inquiries to:

Bassam Saeed, M.D.
Chairman, MESOT Fellowship Program
P.O.Box: 8292 Fax: +963 11 4462820
Damascus - Syria
E-mail: bassam.said@gmail.com

Applications for the 2012 programs are now closed. All new applications will be considered in 2012 for programs beginning in 2013.