We traveled last week from Prague to Sicily, for the Matching in Practice workshop in Messina, which was rich in kidney exchange. I was glad to reconnect with the Director of the National Transplant organization, Dr. Giuseppe Feltrin, and with Professors Antonio Nicolò and Antonio Miralles.
But a funny thing happened first, at the University of Messina. I was inducted into the university's Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti, founded in the early 1700's, at a time when autocrats didn't look fondly on universities (imagine that!). The symbol of the Academy is a ship sailing in the Strait of Messina (between Scylla and Charybdis) with the motto "Inter utramque viam periclitantes," "Taking risks between both paths," reflecting (I was told) the perils of navigating the strait between scholarship and politics. It seemed very appropriate for the times.
Here's the story in the local news: with a picture:
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