U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
The Data Advisory Committee (DAC) is an operating committee of the OPTN. The DAC is charged with regular review of the OPTN Data Collection Principles and ensuring that data collection activities are in alignment with these principles. The DAC is charged with overseeing all recommendations to the Board of Directors regarding the collection of official OPTN data that are pertinent to the operation of the OPTN, necessary for the development of evidence-based OPTN policies, and to support analytic work undertaken by the OPTN Contractor or the SRTR contractor to perform the tasks required under the respective contracts, the Final Rule, and NOTA. The DAC is charged with making recommendations to the Board of Directors to revise the OPTN Data Collection Principles as needed, to update OPTN data submission and release policies, to collaborate with other OPTN committees on additions, modifications, and deletions of the data elements collected by the OPTN, to improve completeness, accuracy, and timeliness of data collected, to enhance the official OPTN data with elements from other data sources, and any other recommendations and efficiencies for improving collection of official OPTN data.
Principles for Data Collection
Institutional members must provide sufficient data to OPTN to allow it to:
- Develop transplant, donation, and allocation policies
- Determine if Institutional Members are complying with policy
- Determine Member-specific performance
- Ensure patient safety when no alternative sources of data exist
- Fulfill the requirements of the OPTN Final Rule
Current Projects
Board approved and pending implementation
- Modify data submission policies (12/2019)
Implemented
- Revise data release policies (8/2015)
- Dr. Sandy Feng
- University of California San Francisco Medical Center
- Dr. Rachel E Patzer
- Emory University Hospital
- Scott Castro
- UNOS Employees
- scott.castro@unos.org
| Members | Organization | Position | End Term Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ms. Nicole Berry | LifeNet Health | At Large | 6/30/2020 |
| Ms. Kristine I Browning | LifeGift Organ Donation Center | At Large | 6/30/2022 |
| Ms. Shannon M Dunne | Division of Transplantation, HHS | Ex Officio (non voting) | 6/30/2022 |
| Ms. Colleen Flores | North Shore University Hospital/Northwell Health | At Large | 6/30/2022 |
| Mr. Richard D Hasz | Gift of Life Donor Program | At Large | 6/30/2020 |
| Ms. Heather E Hickland | Live On Nebraska | At Large | 6/30/2022 |
| Dr. Eileen Hsich | The Cleveland Clinic Foundation | At Large | 6/30/2020 |
| S. Janet Kuramoto-Crawford | Division of Transplantation, HHS | Ex Officio (non voting) | 6/30/2022 |
| Ms. Adriana Martinez | Division of Transplantation, HHS | Ex Officio (non voting) | 6/30/2022 |
| Mr. Christopher J McLaughlin | Division of Transplantation, HHS | Ex Officio (non voting) | 6/30/2022 |
| Melissa L McQueen | Transplant Families | At Large | 6/30/2022 |
| Anna Mello | University of California San Francisco Medical Center | At Large | 6/30/2022 |
| Dr. Sumit Mohan | NY Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia Univ. Medical Center | At Large | 6/30/2020 |
| Ms. Marian A O'Rourke | Jackson Memorial Hospital University of Miami School of Medicine | At Large | 6/30/2020 |
| Alicia M Redden | Cleveland Clinic Florida Weston | At Large | 6/30/2022 |
| Dr. Jesse Schold | The Cleveland Clinic Foundation | At Large | 6/30/2020 |
| Dr. Siddarth A Shah | Norton Children's Hospital | At Large | 6/30/2020 |
Meeting Summaries
- May 11, 2020 (PDF - 520 K)
- April, 13, 2020 (PDF - 268 K)
- March 27, 2020 (PDF - 208 K)
- March 9, 2020 ( PDF - 118 K)
- February 10, 2020 (PDF - 220 K)
- January 13, 2020 (PDF - 107 K)
- December 9, 2019 (PDF - 513 K)
- November 18, 2019 (PDF - 463 K)
- October 10, 2019 (PDF - 219 K)
- September 16, 2019 (PDF - 196 K)
- August 12, 2019 (PDF - 185K)
- July 8, 2019 (PDF - 179 K)
- June 24, 2019 (PDF - 232 K)
- June 17, 2019 (PDF - 214 K)
- May 20, 2019 (PDF - 156 K)
- May 1, 2019 (PDF - 179 K)
- April 29, 2019 (PDF - 55 K)
- April 22, 2019 (PDF - 128 K)
- April 15, 2019 (PDF - 128 K)
- April 8, 2019 (PDF - 145 K)
- March 25, 2019 (PDF - 495 K)
- March 11, 2019 (PDF -268 K)
- February 25, 2019 (PDF - 125 K)
- February 11, 2019 (PDF - 623 K)
- January 28, 2019 (PDF - 93 K)
- December 13, 2018 (PDF - 106 K)
- March 2018 (PDF - 551 K)
- December 2017 (PDF - 474 K)
- November 2017 (PDF - 605 K)
- September 2017 (PDF - 488 K)
- May 2017 (PDF - 503 K)
- October 2016 (PDF - 28 K)
- February 2016 (PDF - 630 K)
- January 2016 (PDF - 81 K)
REPORT TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
- December 2016 (PDF - 77 K)
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