• OPTN Computer Systems online following CrowdStrike update
  Friday, July 19, 2024
  Please contact Customer Service or the Organ Center for assistance.
  

• Job Announcement – Interim OPTN Executive Director
  Thursday, July 18, 2024
  Applicants must submit resume and cover letter no later than 11:59PM (ET) on July 31, 2024.
  

• Update on the annual OPTN call for nominations
  Tuesday, July 2, 2024
  The OPTN will continue to send the community updates.
  

• SRTR previews patient-oriented website design
  Friday, June 28, 2024
  Patients can explore interactive tools and plain language resources.
  

• OPTN Board approves exclusion of race, hepatitis C status from estimate of deceased donor kidney function
  Friday, June 28, 2024
  The OPTN Board of Directors approves several policies at its meeting June 17-18, 2024.
  

• Three-month monitoring report for updated liver urgency policy shows progress
  Tuesday, June 4, 2024
  Next planned report will address six-month period after policy implementation.
  

• National webinar for transplant professionals to provide information about July 2024 implementation of pre-transplant performance metric
  Thursday, May 30, 2024
  Webinar recording available.
  

• Lung transplant rate increases by 16 percent one year after continuous distribution policy is implemented
  Wednesday, May 29, 2024
  A new monitoring report captures one year of post-implementation data.
  

• Virtual town hall addresses OPTN Board Separation and future Governance
  Wednesday, May 29, 2024
  Community town hall to be held on June 10, 2024.
  

• Annual kidney allocation calculator updates
  Wednesday, May 29, 2024
  The KDPI reference population is updated by June 1 of each year, as required by OPTN Policy.
  

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