U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
The OPTN Membership and Professional Standards Committee (MPSC) is an operating committee of the OPTN Board of Directors. The MPSC maintains membership criteria and monitors OPTN member compliance with OPTN membership criteria, OPTN bylaws and policies, and the OPTN final rule.
The MPSC, through peer review:
- Reviews events identified as presenting a risk to patient safety, public health or the integrity of the OPTN and takes action or makes recommendations for further action to the OPTN Board of Directors.
- Evaluates OPTN member performance and compliance and supports members by providing feedback on and recommendations to improve members’ performance, compliance, and quality systems.
- Reviews applications for membership in the OPTN, approval of designated transplant programs, and changes in OPTN member key personnel.
The MPSC also:
- Identifies opportunities for transplant community education to improve patient safety and safeguard the integrity of the transplant system, often through dissemination of successful examples of membership engagement and sharing of best practices.
- Develops bylaws and policies related to membership criteria or the oversight responsibilities of the MPSC that align with the OPTN mission to maximize organ supply, provide efficient and safe care, and provide equitable access to transplantation.
Current Projects
Review
- Transplant program performance outcome measures (8/2016)
- Transplant program outcomes review system changes (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)
- Update transplant hospital definition (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. Heung Bae Kim
- Boston Children's Hospital
Liaison
- Ms. Sally H Aungier
- UNOS Employees
- sally.aungier@unos.org
| Members | Organization | Position | End Term Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. Sanjeev K Akkina | Loyola University Medical Center | At Large | 6/30/2021 |
| Dr. Mark L Barr | Keck Hospital of USC | Regional Rep. | 6/30/2023 |
| Dr. Errol L Bush | Johns Hopkins Hospital | At Large | 6/30/2021 |
| Dr. Kenneth D Chavin | University Hospitals of Cleveland | At Large | 6/30/2020 |
| Dr. Matthew Cooper | Georgetown University Medical Center | At Large | 6/30/2021 |
| Dr. Maryjane A Farr | NY Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia Univ. Medical Center | Regional Rep. | 6/30/2021 |
| Dr. Richard N Formica | Yale New Haven Hospital | Regional Rep. | 6/30/2021 |
| Dr. Adam M Frank | Thomas Jefferson University Hospital | Regional Rep. | 6/30/2021 |
| Dr. Jonathan A Fridell | Indiana University Health | Regional Rep. | 6/30/2021 |
| Dr. Michael D Gautreaux | HLA/Immunogenetics Lab | At Large | 6/30/2021 |
| Mr. PJ Geraghty | Donor Network of Arizona | At Large | 6/30/2021 |
| Dr. David A Gerber | University of North Carolina Hospitals | Regional Rep. | 6/30/2021 |
| Dr. Patrick J Healey | Seattle Children's Hospital | Regional Rep. | 6/30/2020 |
| Dr. Kelley M Hitchman | Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics Lab/University Health System | At Large | 6/30/2020 |
| Dr. Edward F Hollinger | Rush University Medical Center | Regional Rep. | 6/30/2021 |
| Mr. Ian R Jamieson | Duke University Hospital | Ex Officio (non voting) | 6/30/2020 |
| Ms. Patricia A Jones | University Hospital, University of Texas Health Science Center | At Large | 6/30/2020 |
| Dr. Jon A Kobashigawa | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | At Large | 6/30/2021 |
| Dr. Marilyn E Levi | Division of Transplantation, HHS | Ex Officio (non voting) | 6/30/2021 |
| Dr. Scott A Lindberg | Houston Methodist Hospital | At Large | 6/30/2020 |
| Ms. Carrie D Lindower | Temporary Employee Acceptance Consultants | At Large | 6/30/2020 |
| Dr. Didier A Mandelbrot | University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics | At Large | 6/30/2021 |
| Ms. Christine McGarry | Gift of Life Donor Program | At Large | 6/30/2020 |
| Mr. Christopher J McLaughlin | Division of Transplantation, HHS | Ex Officio (non voting) | 6/30/2020 |
| Dr. Clifford D Miles | The Nebraska Medical Center | Regional Rep. | 6/30/2021 |
| Dr. Saeed Mohammad | Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago | At Large | 6/30/2021 |
| Dr. David C Mulligan | Yale New Haven Hospital | Ex Officio (non voting) | 6/30/2020 |
| Arjun U Naik | Division of Transplantation, HHS | Ex Officio (non voting) | 6/30/2021 |
| Dr. Nikole A Neidlinger | Donor Network West | At Large | 6/30/2020 |
| Dr. Matthew J O'Connor | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia | At Large | 6/30/2021 |
| Mr. Jeffrey P Orlowski | LifeShare Transplant Donor Services of Oklahoma | Regional Rep. | 6/30/2020 |
| Dr. Hamang M Patel | Ochsner Foundation Hospital | At Large | 6/30/2020 |
| Dr. Nicole A Pilch | Medical University of South Carolina | At Large | 6/30/2020 |
| Ms. Jennifer K Prinz | Donor Alliance | At Large | 6/30/2021 |
| Ms. Melissa N Roberts | University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics | At Large | 6/30/2020 |
| Dr. Scott A Scheinin | Montefiore Medical Center | At Large | 6/30/2020 |
| Dr. Kirti Shetty | University of Maryland Medical System | At Large | 6/30/2020 |
| Dr. Scott C Silvestry | AdventHealth Orlando | At Large | 6/30/2021 |
| Ms. Raelene Skerda | Division of Transplantation, HHS | Ex Officio (non voting) | 6/30/2021 |
| Dr. Zoe A Stewart Lewis | New York University Medical Center | At Large | 6/30/2020 |
| Dr. Rajat Walia | St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center | At Large | 6/30/2021 |
| Dr. Keith M Wille | University of Alabama Hospital | Regional Rep. | 6/30/2020 |
| Dr. Heidi Yeh | Massachusetts General Hospital | At Large | 6/30/2020 |
MEETING SUMMARIES
- December 17, 2019 (PDF - 548 K)
- November 7, 2019 (PDF 722 K)
- September 27, 2019 (PDF 496 K)
- August 12, 2019 (PDF 477 K)
- July 17, 2019 (PDF 558 K)
- April 16, 2019 (PDF - 99 K)
- 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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