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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. 

National webinar for kidney transplant professionals provides education on OPTN policy action on eGFR waiting time modifications

National webinar for kidney transplant professionals provides education on OPTN policy action on eGFR waiting time modifications

Mar 3, 2023 | Get involved, Kidney/pancreas, News

All programs must comply with the action by Jan. 3, 2024.

Community feedback needed on continuous distribution of liver and intestinal organs

Community feedback needed on continuous distribution of liver and intestinal organs

Feb 14, 2023 | Get involved, Liver/intestine, News

The committee welcomes community input on liver prioritization exercises through March 15, 2023.

National webinar for kidney transplant professionals provides education on OPTN policy action on eGFR waiting time modifications

Additional transplant patient webinar addresses upcoming changes to lung distribution

Feb 7, 2023 | Get involved, Heart/lung, News, Patient

Additional webinar for lung patients and caregivers to help them understand the policy changes coming in March 2023.

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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?

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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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