June 2015 Board Meeting Wrap-up

The OPTN/UNOS board of directors held its semi-annual meeting in Atlanta, GA, June 1-2, 2015.

News Releases

• Board approves policies to support HOPE Act, enhance VCA transplantation
• Board releases two member institutions from probation
• Board places University of Pittsburgh Medical Center on probation

Recent board-approved guidance documents

• Guidance for procedures to mark kidney laterality
• Ethical Principles in the Allocation of Human Organs
• Guidance on MELD PELD exception review
• VCAs from living donors

Meeting Documents

• Executive Summary
• Policy notice

Committee Presentations

Kidney

• KAS Update
• Informed Consent for KPD
• Simultaneous Liver Kidney Allocation Project

Liver

• Redesigning Liver Distribution Update
• Requirements for Intestine Programs

Vascular Composite Allografts (VCA)

• VCA Implementation
• Membership Requirements
• Guidance Document from Living Donors

Operations & Safety

• Modifying ABO Requirements
• Collective Patient and Wait Time Transfers

Pediatrics

• Establishing Pediatric & Experience Requirements in the Bylaws

OPO

• HIV Organ Policy Equity Act

Pancreas

• Definition of Pancreas Graft Failure

Minority Affairs

• Informed Consent for Living Donors Representing Vulnerable Populations

Additional Presentations

• Executive Committee Report
• OPTN Strategic Plan Final Draft
• Open Session on OPTN Strategic Plan
• UNOS IT Roadmap
• OPTN Treasurer’s Report