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2024-2025 Call for Nominations for OPTN Board of Directors and Committees

2024-2025 Call for Nominations for OPTN Board of Directors and Committees

Jun 2, 2023 | Get involved, Leadership, News

Apply by Sept. 15 to be considered for 2024 vacancies.

2024-2025 Call for Nominations for OPTN Board of Directors and Committees

5 things to know: Volunteering for the board or a committee

Jun 1, 2023 | Get involved, News

Call for Nominations open through Sept. 15 for terms beginning in 2024.

TMF 2023 Heckenkemper Award winner: Marian O’Rourke, RN, CCTC honored

TMF 2023 Heckenkemper Award winner: Marian O’Rourke, RN, CCTC honored

May 17, 2023 | Education, Get involved, News

The donation and transplant community recognizes Marian O’Rourke for her decades of contributions to patients and professionals.

2022 UNOS staffing survey now open

2022 UNOS staffing survey now open

Mar 31, 2023 | Get involved, News, Transplant hospital

New enhancements to the 2022 Staffing Survey streamline the user experience and make it easier to submit and receive data.

Dissecting the grief cycle: TMF 2023 presenter Nona Dawson-Land on coping with trauma in the workplace

Dissecting the grief cycle: TMF 2023 presenter Nona Dawson-Land on coping with trauma in the workplace

Mar 30, 2023 | Education, Get involved, News

TMF session to focus on understanding loss and grieving cycles in the transplant space.

Nominations open for the Lisa Schaffner Community Advocate Award

Nominations open for the Lisa Schaffner Community Advocate Award

Mar 29, 2023 | Get involved, News, OPO, Transplant hospital

The award recognizes volunteers, such as living donors, donor family members or transplant recipients, who are promoting organ donation and transplantation with little public recognition. 

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Understanding Donation after Circulatory Death (DCD)

Understanding Donation after Circulatory Death (DCD) by Andrew Klein, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Officer, UNOS.

Organ donor hospitals and transplant hospitals –how do they differ?

Donor hospitals are not subject to OPTN policies but transplant hospitals are. So who’s responsible for overseeing donor hospitals?

Organs shouldn’t be transported in airline cargo. Here’s why.

Federal regulations don’t prevent unaccompanied organs from flying above the wing – yet they’re being transported as cargo. The government agrees it can improve its communications to airlines and airports to clarify this.

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