• New booklet advises parents of pediatric transplant patients
  Tuesday, April 24, 2018
  A new resource booklet, “What Every Parent Needs to Know,” is available for parents and caregivers of children and adolescents who need or receive an organ transplant.
  

• OPTN/UNOS Board members named
  Wednesday, March 7, 2018
  Members of the national organ donation and transplantation community have elected 25 members to the OPTN/UNOS board of directors, including a new president, vice-president/president-elect, vice president for patient and donor affairs and secretary.
  

• Notice addresses organ preservation solution
  Sunday, March 4, 2018
  Bridge to Life Ltd. and Waters Medical Systems have issued a field correction for specified lots of Belzer UW Cold Storage Solution and IGL Cold Storage Solution in 2-liter bags.
  

• 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.
  

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