United Network for Organ Sharing: Organ Donation and Transplantation

Ad Hoc Disease Transmission Advisory Committee

The Ad Hoc Disease Transmission Advisory Committee considers issues related to the transmission of disease through organ transplantation. The Committee examines individual potential disease transmission cases reported to the OPTN in an effort to confirm transmissions where possible. It reviews aggregate data on all reported cases to assess the risk of donor disease transmission in organ transplantation in the U.S. with the goal of providing (1) education and guidance to the transplant community toward preventing future disease transmission and (2) input in developing policy to improve the safety of organ donation through the reduction of donor derived transmission events. It may identify disease-transmission related patient safety issues to be addressed, as appropriate, by the OPTN.


Chair Dr. Michael G Ison Northwestern Memorial Hospital mgison@northwestern.edu	Vice Chairman Dr. Michael Nalesnik University of Pittsburgh Medical Center nalesnikma@upmc.edu	Liaison Ms. Shandie H Covington UNOS covingsh@unos.org

Members	Organization
Dr. Emily Blumberg	Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Dr. James S Bowman	Division of Transplantation, HHS
Dr. Peter Chin-Hong	University of California San Francisco Medical Center
Dr. J. Michael DiMaio	University Hospital - St. Paul
Dr. Jon P Gockerman	Duke University Hospital
Dr. Michael D Green	Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
Mr. Richard D Hasz	Gift of Life Donor Program
Dr. Bernard F Kozlovsky	Division of Transplantation, HHS
Dr. Bernard Kubak	University of California at Los Angeles Medical Center
Dr. Matthew J Kuehnert	Non-UNOS Member US Hospital
Dr. Daniel J Lebovitz	LifeBanc
Dr. Elizabeth Ortiz-Rios	Division of Transplantation, HHS
Dr. Timothy L Pruett	University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview
Ms. Amy Shorin-Silverstein	General Public Members
Ms. Alison Ballew Smith	Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Network
Dr. Lewis W Teperman	New York University Medical Center
Dr. Brahm Vasudev	Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital

Meeting Summaries
September 2009

Reports to the Board of Directors*
November 2009
June 2009
November 2008

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*Note: Meeting summaries are prepared for each meeting of the full committee. Reports to the board are prepared for specific meetings of the board of directors. They contain documentation of all committee activity since the previous report to the board and also will include any recommendations that the board is requested to consider at that meeting. Certain recommendations may have been accepted, declined, or modified by the Board of Directors; therefore, please review the Executive Summaries of the board of directors' meetings to confirm the status of all committee proposals.

Meeting summaries and reports to the board remain posted here for the previous two calendar years. For older documents, please contact the UNOS staff liaison listed above. Additionally, report exhibits may be requested from the liaison as well.