• OPTN/UNOS summit to address OPO, transplant center, system metrics
  Wednesday, February 28, 2018
  The OPTN/UNOS Board of Directors is launching a new effort to study and develop metrics that organ procurement organizations (OPOs) and transplant centers can use for improvement.
  

• Histocompatibility General Supervisor Key Personnel Requirement
  Wednesday, February 28, 2018
  The requirements for notification of changes to key personnel and submission of a key personnel change application in OPTN Bylaws, Appendix C.5 Changes in Key Laboratory Personnel will apply to General Supervisors.
  

• Learn how programs are performing non-A1, non-A1B transplants
  Wednesday, February 28, 2018
  Educational resource supplements guidance document
  

• COIIN participants – share your insights at Learning Congress
  Friday, January 26, 2018
  Cohort A abstract deadline February 6
  

• New Intestine Program Applications and Bylaws
  Monday, January 15, 2018
  The implementation of these bylaws was delayed to allow for the development of new application forms and the approval of those forms by Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The OMB has recently approved the new intestine transplant program applications.
  

• Committee to address geographic aspects of organ distribution
  Thursday, January 11, 2018
  The group will establish guiding principles for the use of geography within OPTN policies.
  

• Deceased organ donors in US exceeded 10 thousand for first time in 2017
  Monday, January 8, 2018
  Total transplants set record for fifth straight year.
  

• Special public comment proposal for HCC auto approval criteria
  Tuesday, January 2, 2018
  Proposal would restore automatic approval for certain extensions.
  

• Nominees Chosen for Board of Directors Election
  Saturday, December 9, 2017
  At its December 2017 meeting, the OPTN/UNOS Board of Directors approved the following slate of nominees for Board appointments beginning in July 2018. OPTN/UNOS member voting representatives will receive a ballot and biographical information for the nominees in early 2018.
  

• OPTN/UNOS Board of Directors releases Life Alliance Organ Recovery Agency from Member Not in Good Standing
  Tuesday, December 5, 2017
  At its meeting December 5, 2017, the OPTN/UNOS Board of Directors restored full member privileges for Life Alliance Organ Recovery Agency (LAORA), an organ procurement organization providing services to six counties in South Florida.
  

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