Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network

The Membership and Professional Standards Committee (MPSC) is charged with insuring that OPTN/UNOS member clinical transplant centers, independent organ procurement agencies, independent tissue typing laboratories, and non-institutional members meet and remain in compliance with OPTN/UNOS Criteria for Institutional Membership.

To accomplish this, the MPSC:

• Develops and recommends membership criteria for each class of membership to the Board of Directors.
• Recommends additions and revisions to membership criteria as needed.
• Reviews each membership application for Institutional Membership and adopts recommendations for Board action.
• Monitors member compliance with OPTN requirements.
• Reviews transplant program performance including outcomes and activity levels.
• Reviews reported policy violations and makes recommendations to the Board.

Current Projects

Review

• Transplant program performance outcome measures (8/2016)
• Transplant program outcomes review system changes (8/2016)

Board approved and pending implementation

• Update transplant hospital definition (8/2016)

Implemented

• Change to Hospital-Based OPO Voting Privileges (8/2018)
• Revising OPTN Bylaws Appendix L (1/2018)
• Revise transplant fellowship training program approval bylaws (7/2017)
• Primary transplant surgeon requirement changes (8/2016)
• Primary liver transplant physician subspecialty requirement changes (8/2016)
• Primary kidney transplant physician update (8/2016)
• Personnel procurement requirements (8/2015)
• Foreign equivalent in bylaws (8/2015)
• Proposal to Establish a Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement Requirement for Transplant Hospitals and Organ Procurement Organizations (9/2014)

Chair

• Ms. Lisa M Stocks
• Lifesharing - A Donate Life Organization

Vice Chair

• Dr. John J Friedewald
• Northwestern Memorial Hospital

Liaison

• Ms. Sally H Aungier
• UNOS Employees
• sally.aungier@unos.org

• • Members
  • Organization
• • Dr. Christina D Bishop
  • Midwest Transplant Network Histocompatibility Laboratory Westwood
• • Dr. Linda J Bogar
  • Inova Fairfax Hospital
• • Dr. Kenneth D Chavin
  • University Hospitals of Cleveland
• • Ms. Suzanne Lane Conrad
  • Iowa Donor Network
• • Dr. Patrick G Dean
  • Rochester Methodist Hospital (Mayo Clinic)
• • Dr. Daniel F Dilling
  • Loyola University Medical Center
• • Dr. Maryjane A Farr
  • NY Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia Univ. Medical Center
• • Dr. Luis A Fernandez
  • University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics
• • Dr. Richard N Formica
  • Yale New Haven Hospital
• • Ms. Alexandra K Glazier
  • New England Organ Bank
• • Dr. Gaurav Gupta
  • Medical College of Virginia Hospitals
• • Ms. Joyce E Hager
  • Division of Transplantation, HHS, Ex Officio-Non Voting
• • Dr. Patrick J Healey
  • Seattle Children's Hospital
• • Dr. Macey L Henderson
  • Johns Hopkins Hospital
• • Dr. Kelley M Hitchman
  • Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics Lab/University Health System
• • Dr. Maryl R Johnson
  • University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics
• • Ms. Patricia A Jones
  • University Hospital, University of Texas Health Science Center
• • Dr. Seth J Karp
  • Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Nashville VA Medical Center
• • Dr. Heung Bae Kim
  • Boston Children's Hospital
• • Dr. Leona Kim-Schluger
  • Mount Sinai Medical Center
• • Dr. Marilyn E Levi
  • Division of Transplantation, HHS, Ex Officio-Non Voting
• • Dr. Scott A Lindberg
  • Houston Methodist Hospital
• • Ms. Carrie D Lindower
  • Temporary Employee Acceptance Consultants
• • Ms. Christine McGarry
  • Gift of Life Donor Program
• • Mr. Christopher J McLaughlin
  • Division of Transplantation, HHS, Ex Officio-Non Voting
• • Dr. Clifford D Miles
  • The Nebraska Medical Center
• • Dr. Michael J Moritz
  • Lehigh Valley Hospital
• • Arjun U Naik
  • Division of Transplantation, HHS, Ex Officio-Non Voting
• • Dr. Nikole A Neidlinger
  • Donor Network West
• • Mr. Walt P Nickels
  • Arkansas Regional Organ Recovery Agency
• • Mr. Jeffrey P Orlowski
  • LifeShare Transplant Donor Services of Oklahoma
• • Dr. Hamang M Patel
  • Ochsner Foundation Hospital
• • Dr. Nicole A Pilch
  • Medical University of South Carolina
• • Ms. Melissa N Roberts
  • General Public Region 3
• • Dr. David N Rosenthal
  • Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford
• • Dr. Scott A Scheinin
  • Montefiore Medical Center
• • Dr. Kirti Shetty
  • University of Maryland Medical System
• • Ms. Raelene Skerda
  • Division of Transplantation, HHS, Ex Officio-Non Voting
• • Dr. April Stempien-Otero
  • University of Washington Medical Center
• • Dr. Zoe A Stewart Lewis
  • New York University Medical Center
• • Dr. Vinay Sundaram
  • Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
• • Dr. Bryan A Whitson
  • Ohio State University Medical Center
• • Dr. Keith M Wille
  • University of Alabama Hospital
• • Dr. Heidi Yeh
  • Massachusetts General Hospital
• • Dr. Atsushi Yoshida
  • Henry Ford Hospital

MEETING SUMMARIES

• April 16, 2019 (PDF - 99K)
• February 27, 2019 (PDF - 150 K)
• January 18, 2019 (PDF - 65 K)
• January 8, 2019 (PDF - 293 K)
• November 20, 2018 (PDF - 75 K)
• October 16, 2018 (PDF - 152 K)
• September 2018 (PDF - 73 K)
• August 2018 (PDF - 83 K)
• July 2018 (PDF - 37 K)
• June 2018 (PDF - 565 K)
• April 2018 (PDF - 606 K)
• March 2018 (PDF - 83 K)
• February 2018 (PDF - 662 K)
• January 2018 (PDF - 561 K)
• November 2017 (PDF - 490 K)
• October 2017 (PDF - 495 K)
• September 2017 (PDF - 492 K)
• July 2017 (PDF - 657 K)
• May 2017 (PDF - 33 K)
• March 2017 (PDF - 562 K)
• January 2017 (PDF - 512 K)
• November 2016 (PDF - 492 K)
• October 2016 (PDF - 536 K)
• September 2016 (PDF - 510 K)
• July 2016 (PDF - 49 K)
• June 2016 (PDF - 482 K)
• May 2016 (PDF - 525 K)
• March 2016 (PDF - 611 K)
• February 2016 (PDF - 596 K)

Reports to the Board of Directors

• December 2016: Primary kidney M.D. requirements (PDF - 176 K)
• December 2016: Surgeon first assistant (PDF - 443 K)
• December 2016: Remove donor location (PDF - 314 K)
• December 2016: Subspecialty boards (PDF - 397 K)
• December 2016: Performance outcome review (PDF - 364 K)
• December 2016: Performance outcome measures (PDF - 775 K)
• December 2016: Transplant hospital definition (PDF - 160 K)

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