U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
The Living Donor Committee develops policy and guidance related to the donation and transplantation of organs from living donors to recipients. The goal of the committee's work is to continue to improve the informed choice of prospective living donors, and the safety, protection and follow-up of all living donors.
Current Projects
Board approved and pending implementation
- Clarifications on reporting maintenance dialysis (1/2019)
- Requirements for therapeutic organ donation (8/2015)
Implemented
Chair
- Dr. Randolph L Schaffer
- Scripps Green Hospital
Vice Chair
- Heather F Hunt
- General Public Region 1
Liaison
- Tina M Rhoades
- UNOS Employees
- Tina.Rhoades@unos.org
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- Members
- Organization
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- Jennifer L Briemann
- General Public Region 2
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- Dr. Nahel Elias
- Massachusetts General Hospital
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- Jane F Forbes
- General Public Region 10
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- Dr. Steven Hays
- Baylor University Medical Center
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- Dr. Macey L Henderson
- Johns Hopkins Hospital
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- Ms. Lisa L King
- Rochester Methodist Hospital (Mayo Clinic)
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- Dr. Krista Lentine
- SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital
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- Ms. Carolyn Light
- University of California San Francisco Medical Center
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- Dr. Jayme E Locke
- University of Alabama Hospital
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- Ms. Laurie A McDonald
- University of North Carolina Hospitals
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- Dr. Rita McGill
- University of Chicago Medical Center
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- Sarah L Sampsel
- General Public Region 5
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- Dr. Pooja Singh
- Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
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- Ms. Raelene Skerda
- Division of Transplantation, HHS, Ex Officio-Non Voting
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- Jessica A Spiers
- Virginia Mason Medical Center
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- Dr. Titte R Srinivas
- Intermountain Medical Center
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- Ms. Heather Wertin
- Barnes-Jewish Hospital
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- Dr. Vaughn E Whittaker
- Lutheran Hospital of Fort Wayne
Meeting Summaries
- May 8, 2019 (PDF - 187K)
- April 1, 2019 (PDF - 122K)
- March 13, 2019 (PDF - 83K)
- January 9, 2019 (PDF - 80 K)
- December 12, 2018 (PDF - 130 K)
- November 14, 2018 (PDF - 692 K)
- October 15, 2018 (PDF - 273 K)
- September 2018 (PDF - 94 K)
- August 8, 2018 (PDF - 98 K)
- July 11, 2018 (PDF - 124 K)
- May 9, 2018 (PDF - 65 K)
- March 2018 (PDF - 98 K)
- February 28, 2018 (PDF - 552 K)
- February 14, 2018 (PDF - 562 K)
- January 2018 (PDF - 32 K)
- November 2017 (PDF - 485 K)
- September 2017 (PDF - 521 K)
- August 2017 (PDF - 471 K)
- July 2017 (PDF - 504 K)
- June 2017 (PDF - 509 K)
- May 2017 (PDF - 529 K)
- March 27, 2017 (PDF - 571 K)
- March 8, 2017 (PDF - 480 K)
- February 2017 (PDF - 53 K)
- January 2017 (PDF - 509 K)
- December 2016 (PDF - 514 K)
- November 2016 (PDF - 507 K)
- October 2016 (PDF - 28 K)
- March 2016 (PDF)
REPORTs TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
- June 2019: Clarifications on reporting maintenance dialysis (PDF - 510 K)
- December 2016 (PDF - 274 K)
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