TAPID Collaboration
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TAPID collaboration | TAPID meetings | TAPID publications | TAPID members
TAPID collaboration
TAPID (Transplantation and Primary Immunodeficiency [PID]) is an important and ongoing expert collaboration facilitated by ASCIA, between clinical immunologists, transplant physicians and international experts. A/Prof Theresa Cole is the TAPID coordinator and ASCIA President. TAPID members and publications are listed below.
The main objective of TAPID is to enable complex PID and transplantation cases to be peer reviewed and discussed in a confidential expert forum and to publish guidelines. Three publications have been developed as a result of this project and it is our intention to develop more publications in future.
TAPID meetings
The TAPID collaboration was initiated in May 2013, and since then there have been in-person meetings in February 2014, May 2017, May 2018, May 2019, April 2023 and May 2024.
A TAPID Case Discussion Form needs to be completed for every deidentified case to be discussed at TAPID meetings and a template form is available here:
TAPID Case Discussion Form96.15 KB
The final TAPID Zoom meeting for this year is on 18th December 2024
TAPID Zoom meetings will continue to be held in 2025 from 5.30-6.30pm AEDT or AEST on the 3rd Wednesday of each month, except in May.
The following schedule includes meetings in April, August and October which will focus on adult cases and an in-person meeting in May:
TAPID publications
Richards, S., Gennery, A.R., Davies, G., Wong, M., Shaw, P.J., Peake, J., Fraser,C., Gray, P., Brothers, S., Sinclair, J., Prestidge, T., Preece, K., Quinn, P., Ramachandran, S., Loh, R., McLean-Tooke, A., Mitchell, R., Cole, T., on behalf of ASCIA Transplantation and Primary Immunodeficiency (TAPID) group. (2020). Diagnosis and management of severe combined immunodeficiency in Australia and New Zealand. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 56, 1508–1513. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jpc.15158
ASCIA-TAPID Consensus Guideline: Diagnosis, management and transplantation of severe combined immunodeficiency in Australia and New Zealand. 2019 www.allergy.org.au/hp/papers/ascia-guidelines-scid-tapid This Guideline includes information in the published Position Paper (see above) and additional information about transplantation. It is available on the ASCIA website www.allergy.org.au/hp/hp/papers/ascia-guidelines-scid-tapid
TAPID members
There are currently more than 200 TAPID members, including more than 130 ASCIA members.
Webpage updated April 2025