• Educational toolkit, virtual town hall address transplant program performance reviews
  Tuesday, May 12, 2015
  A recording is now available of the May 5, 2015, performance review webinar.
  

• HOPE Act to facilitate organ recovery from HIV-positive donors
  Thursday, May 7, 2015
  The OPTN Final Rule will be amended to allow the recovery of transplantable organs from HIV-positive donors.
  

• Calculator tool estimates liver wait list outcomes
  Monday, May 4, 2015
  The SRTR created the calculator at the request of the OPTN liver committee.
  

• Recognizing and testing for Chagas disease
  Sunday, April 19, 2015
  The OPTN Ad Hoc Disease Transmission Advisory Committee (DTAC) has reviewed a number of donor-derived transmissions of geographically-associated diseases.
  

• Feedback sought on OPTN strategic plan
  Tuesday, March 31, 2015
  The plan serves as a roadmap to help prioritize the OPTN's work through 2018.
  

• Study suggests little increase in number of potential organ donors
  Wednesday, March 11, 2015
  Transplant opportunities may exist in expanding donor acceptance criteria.
  

• Officers and board members elected - 2015
  Thursday, March 5, 2015
  First living kidney donor, non-clinician to become president.
  

• Applying for OPTN vascularized composite allograft transplant program approval
  Tuesday, March 3, 2015
  Here’s a list of membership requirements for VCA programs.
  

• Labs are reminded to provide a copy of their written agreement with transplant hospitals
  Monday, March 2, 2015
  New bylaws tell you specifically what to include.
  

• Some abdominal wall reconstruction procedures are considered vascularized composite allograft transplants
  Thursday, February 26, 2015
  Memo clarifies requirements for hospitals and OPOs.
  

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