At their meeting in December 2006, the OPTN/UNOS Board of Directors approved the replacement of PRA with CPRA in determining kidney and pancreas allocation (policies 3.5.11.3, and 3.8.1).

Two upcoming workshops are aimed at individuals who want to learn more about speed-reading personality types and applying them to a donation conversation, recognizing family dynamics and meeting the special needs of parents and families that are present in donation situations, learning effective communication skills and crisis intervention techniques and more.

As part of an ongoing effort to identify emerging trends in the field of organ donation and transplantation, more than 50 experts from many areas of the transplant community have prepared the comprehensive 2007 Annual Report of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation (OPTN) and U.S. Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR).