U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Winter 2020 Regional Meetings
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- Region 1– March 2
- Region 2 – Feb. 14
- Region 3 – Feb. 28
- Region 4 – Jan. 30
- Region 5 – Feb. 13
- Region 6 – Feb. 5
- Region 7 – March 3
- Region 8 – Feb. 6
- Region 9 – March 18
- Region 10 – March 12
- Region 11 – March 13
Summer 2020 Regional Meetings
New to regional meetings? Here's what you can expect.
- Region 1 – September 15
- Region 2 – September 10
- Region 3 – September 2
- Region 4 – August 27
- Region 5 – August 20
- Region 6 – September 24
- Region 7 – September 22
- Region 8 – September 9
- Region 9 – September 23
- Region 10 – September 17
- Region 11 – August 28
Public Comment Webinars
Register for upcoming webinars or view recordings of previous webinars on proposals currently available for public comment:
OPTN Updates
- Winter 2020 OPTN Region Updates (PDF - 1478 K)
Winter 2020 Public Comment Presentations
- National Heart Review Board for Pediatrics (Thoracic Organ Transplantation Committee)
- Data Collection to Assess Socioeconomic Status (SES) and Access to Transplant (Minority Affairs Committee)
- Addressing Medically Urgent Candidates in New Kidney Allocation Policy (Kidney Transplantation Committee)
- Distribution of Kidneys and Pancreata from Alaska (Kidney & Pancreas Transplantation Committees)
- Modifications to Released Kidney and Pancreas Allocation (Organ Procurement Organization Committee)
- Enhancements to the National Liver Review Board (Liver and Intestinal Organ Transplantation Committee)
- Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) Equivalency Tables Update (2020) (Histocompatibility Committee)
- Guidance and Policy Modifications Addressing Blood Type Determination (Operations and Safety Committee)
- Modify Blood Type Determination and Reporting Policies
- Guidance on Blood Type Determination
- Update to VCA Transplant Outcomes Data Collection (Vascularized Composite Allograft (VCA) Transplantation Committee)
- Measuring Transplant Outcomes by Collecting Data on Children Born to Uterus Recipients (Vascularized Composite Allograft (VCA) Transplantation Committee)
Winter 2020 Committee Break Out Presentations
Abdominal
- Addressing Medically Urgent Candidates in New Kidney Allocation Policy (Kidney Transplantation Committee)
- Modifications to Release Kidney and Pancreas Allocation (Organ Procurement Organization Committee)
- Enhancements to the National Liver Review Board (Liver and Intestinal Organ Transplantation Committee)
- Liver and Intestinal Transplantation Committee Update
Thoracic
- Thoracic Organ Transplantation Committee
- Thoracic Organ Transplantation Committee Update
- National Heart Review Board for Pediatrics
- Continuous Distribution of Lungs Update
Winter 2020 Committee & Department Update Presentations
- Membership and Professional Standards Committee
- Policy Oversight Committee
- UNOS Member Quality Department
- Histocompatibility Committee
- Vascularized Composite Allograft (VCA) Transplantation Committee
- Transplant Coordinators Committee
Fall 2019 Committee Updates
Operations and Safety Committee
Liver (All Regions except Region 8)
Liver (Region 8)
Other
National liver review board (NLRB) six-week report (PDF; 7/2019)
Public Comment Proposals Winter 2020 (PDF; 1/2020; 4845 K)
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